Everything passes and everything stays
To pass while making a path
Nor to leave in men's memory
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Weightless and gentle
I like to watch them paint themselves
With sun and crimson, to fly
Under the blue sky to tremble
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Traveler, your footprints are the path and nothing more
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Traveler, there's no path, the path is made by walking
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By walking, the path is made, and when you look back
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You see the track that will never be walked again
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Traveler, there's no path, only wakes on the sea
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Some time ago in that place
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Where today the woods are dressed in thorns
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You hear the voice of a poet shout
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Traveler, there's no path, the path is made by walking
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Blow by blow and verse by verse
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The poet died far from home
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Dust from a neighboring land covers him
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As he left, they saw him cry
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Traveler, there's no path, the path is made by walking
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Blow by blow, verse by verse
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When the goldfinch can't sing
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When the poet is a wanderer
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When praying is no use to us
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Traveler, there's no path, the path is made by walking
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Blow by blow and verse by verse
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And blow by blow, verse by verse
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And blow by blow, verse by verse