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Atelier ateliers

Compass roses

Joy beauty miseries

Dissolved in the depths of harmonies

In the cubic vat minute by minute

Just open the crystal vials and magic spells will smother you

Pull aside the curtain

Facing the street that rises and falls

The twilight that festers in the white basin

Smokestacks towers chimneys stars

Cities of Europe deep in the night

And trains speeding through lit up like theaters trains laden with nostalgia

All the earth comes to rest

Halcyon bird tired of flying

Unfurled like a flag over our hearts

--from Atelier, Ardengo Soffici