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Music:
Funeral Battle.
By Damiano Baldoni.
Performed by Damiano Baldoni at the
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Harbingers of unimagined
horrors,
Avatars of those who rule the night,
Lurking in the shallows of our
shadows
Like fish that lack the lungs to breathe
the light;
Omens from an almanac of sorrows
Written on a midnight long ago,
Etched into the mirrors of our
marrows,
Ever masks for what we dare not know:
Now revel with us till the cocks thrice
crow!
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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