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"There were vast ungodly tombs where slimy monsters dreamed, |
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There were clouds like blood-drenched plumes where unborn demons screamed. |
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There were ages dead to Time, and lands lost out of Space; |
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There were adders in the slime, and a dim unholy Face. |
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"Oh, the heart in my breast turned stone, and the brain froze in my skull- |
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But I won through, I alone, and I poured my chalice full |
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Of horrors and dooms and spells, black buds and bitter roots- |
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From the hells beneath the hells, I bring you my deathly fruits." |
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- R.E.Howard |