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[ti:the Conqueror Worm] |
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[ar:] |
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Lo! 'tis a gala night |
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Within the lonesome latter years! |
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An angel throng, bewinged, bedight |
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In veils, and drowned in tears, |
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Sit in a theatre, to see |
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A play of hopes and fears, |
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While the orchestra breathes fitfully |
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The music of the spheres. |
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Mimes, in the form of God on high, |
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Mutter and mumble low, |
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And hither and thither fly - |
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Mere puppets they, who come and go |
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At bidding of vast formless things |
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That shift the scenery to and fro, |
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Flapping from out their Condor wings |
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Invisible Woe! |
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That motley drama - oh, be sure |
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It shall not be forgot! |
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With its Phantom chased for evermore, |
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By a crowd that seize it not, |
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Through a circle that ever returneth in |
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To the self-same spot, |
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And much of Madness, and more of Sin, |
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And Horror the soul of the plot. |
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And much of Madness, and more of Sin, |
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And Horror the soul of the plot. |
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But see, amid the mimic rout |
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A crawling shape intrude! |
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A blood-red thing that writhes from out |
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The scenic solitude! |
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It writhes! - it writhes! - with mortal pangs |
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The mimes become its food, |
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And seraphs sob at vermin fangs |
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In human gore imbued. |
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Out - out are the lights - out all! |
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And, over each quivering form, |
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The curtain, a funeral pall, |
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Comes down with the rush of a storm, |
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, |
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Uprising, unveiling, affirm |
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That the play is the tragedy, "Man," |
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And its hero the Conqueror Worm. |
