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Lurking in the shade |
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Of dark and fragrant trees |
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Shirking from the rage |
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That tore the heavens free |
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A vagrant Angel |
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His with span to see |
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The garden swell with terrors |
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To banish man and Eve |
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Another fall from grace |
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Whiplashed from the gates |
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Half-naked and insane |
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Full-blooded, breasted |
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Nerve ends tested |
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To behests of pain |
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A sombre lot to gain |
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A storm slid in |
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Borne by carnal winds |
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The upper ether thinned |
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And therein sat abominations |
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Satan seated there |
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Savouring the reek of desolation |
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Their dank despair |
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Moved His speech to leech the air |
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"Behold the golden door |
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To paradise is lost |
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So praise Me as you raised your Lord |
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And I shall thaw this gnawing frost" |
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Another fall from grace |
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Whiplashed from the gates |
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Half-naked and insane |
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And destined for a spiteful Fate |
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Wherein evil sought the shamed |
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As pawns in greater stakes |
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Across this cosmic game |
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To win the hand |
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Of darkness and |
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Set Her in her rightful place |
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"Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow thou shalt eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall bring it forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." |
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[Genesis 3:17-19] |
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At the throat of the human race |
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With claws engorged and poised to rake |
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With that the pact was sealed |
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And as creation reeled |
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Bewitched oration filled |
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The hearts of all |
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Who came to crawl |
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Upon these earthen fields |
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A sombre lot to till |
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A wracked black acid song |
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Spat from the massive throng |
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Of Seraph knelt along |
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The deep red welt to domination |
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The deep red welt to domination |
