| O Father! |
| Iatros! |
| Witness thou anon!
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| Mists above, Exhalations below
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| I shall forevermore be betwixt all things
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| Preventing communion;
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| Shielding off the weakening beams of salvation
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| Shining upon the mournful gloom of Earth;
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| A dreadful interval, sly foundation of ruin
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| And breathe warring winds, racking hail
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| Where just this Morn thrice beloved concord was…
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| Hearken this hideous peal as they drink the water
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| Of Styx, for all things shall become my prey;
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| The water of Acheron, as they silence fragile weeping
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| With horrent arms; |
| the water of Cocytus
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| To laugh at the laments of the Holy Dead;
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| Yon boiling water of Phlegeton, cataracts
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| Of fire alike, and the water of Lethe
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| For what shall remain, even in memories
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| But a livid seat of ever renewing desolation?
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| Hearken thunder from below, like growling gods
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| Who erupt to be released and bare their fangs
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| A long shudder shakes the world as
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| Rising upon the bleak horizon, swell into lifeless life
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| The Commandments that shall sanctify the reign
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| Of the Specter that gnaws upon Man like
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| Hounds chew on bones and offal
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| The Synarchy of Molten Bones shall consist
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| Of Men of worth and Men of ill intent
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| In abandoned yet equal numbers
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| For their insurgent wills harbor
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| The seed of transgression alike
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| This seed shall bloom with noxious flowers
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| Borne out of the mordant steel of scythes
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| Justice will die first
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| To the hammering sound of tears watering the Earth
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| As aught hope remains to reverse course |