| Shrovetide is violated by heathens
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| Nefarious splurges of sin
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| Persuasion is trembling with fever
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| And became a mantra of occult tongues
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| Mankind enclasped Doom
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| He turned his back on God
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| Virtue became ultra-decadence
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| We are all libertines of the damned
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| A Fidei Defensor arises
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| Flogged and whipped from head to foot
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| The body cleansed by self-flagellation
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| Supressed the lust of flesh and blood
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| Night after night grim voices shriek
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| In portentous horror dreams
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| Even though his room was locked
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| But a Seraph comes unseen
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| The bloodstained walls surround him
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| Icons made of Calvary wounds
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| Dreams of riddance were shattered in sin
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| Ill-fated to avert doom
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| Let me embrace my fate which was adrift and hung
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| I will be again the apple of his eye
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| Take me from among the doomed Laodiceans
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| Whose defamation thrilled the seething skies
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| The man started to cry, hands held to the sky
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| And expected to be purified in flames
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| But the Angel smiled and took the Book
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| And commanded his holy mandate
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| «The Lord foresees thy mother’s advent |
| Into the ranks of Paradise
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| So spare him grief and deep distress
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| And take her worthless life!»
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| But shall she be refined in Thine holy light?
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| Her spirit will shine will thousand suns
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| Condone my doubt, but who am I?
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| The haranguing priest of the newborn Herod king
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| The Fallen Seraph lowered his radiant mask
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| And showed the man the countenance of the fallen Morningstar
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| Night after night his skin was flogged
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| Damn those recurrent dreams
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| Desperately flogging for relief
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| While murmuring blasphemies
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| The bloodstained walls surround him
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| Icons made of Calvary wounds
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| Dreams of riddance were shattered in sin
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| Ill-fated to avert doom
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| Let me embrace my fate which was adrift and hung
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| I will be again the apple of his eye
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| Take me from among the doomed Laodiceans
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| Whose defamation thrilled the seething skies
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| «Christ, enthroned in highest heavens
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| Hear me crying from the deep
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| For the fateful ones departed
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| For the souls in a Laodicean sleep
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| King of Glory, hear my voice
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| Grant thy Faithful rest, I pray
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| I have sinned, and may not bide it |
| If you mark my steps astray
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| She is Thine, O take her quickly
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| Thou art her hope, O raise her high
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| Ever hoping, ever trusting
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| Unto Thee I strive and cry
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| Let them through thy boundless mercy
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| From all evil be restored
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| Hearken to the voices pleading
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| Of Thy Church, O gracious Lord!»
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| The Fallen Seraph lowered his radiant mask
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| And showed the man the countenance of the fallen Morningstar
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| The man seemed stricken by a thousand bludgeons
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| Penetrating just-healed wounds as foreplay for the storm
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| «So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold
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| I will spew thee out of my mouth.»
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| (Revelations 3:16) |