The lyrics Academy-awarding winning actress Tilda Swinton ("Michael Clayton") reads is from Czeslaw Milosz's 1981 book, "Hymn of the Pearl;" it is an excerpt from the poem "The Wormwood Star." (Milosz, "New and Collected Poems:1931-2001, Ecco, 2003, page 385.)

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