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Scene a cemetery by moonlight The Ghoul emerges from the shade of a cypress and sings	A
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The Song	B
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The Pestilence is on the wing	C
Behold the sweet and crimson foam	D
Upon the lips of churl and king	C
No worm but hath a feastful home	D
The Pestilence is on the wing	C
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Even now his kiss incarnadines	A
The brows of maiden queen and whore	E
The nun to him her cheek resigns	A
Wan lips were never kissed before	E
His ancient kiss incarnadines	A
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Good cheer to thee white worm of death	F
The priest within the brothel dies	A
The baud hath sickened from his breath	F
In grave half dug the digger lies	A
Good cheer to thee white worm of death	F
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The Seraph appears from among the trees half walking half flying with wings whose iris the moonlight has rendered faint and pauses at sight of the Ghoul	G
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The Seraph	H
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What gardener in crudded fields of hell	I
Or scullion of the Devil's house art thou	J
To whom the filth of Malebolge clings	A
And reek of horrid refuse Thou art gnurled	K
And black as any Kobold from the mines	A
Where demons delve for orichalch and steel	L
To forge the infernal racks Upon thy face	A
Detestable and evil as might haunt	K
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The last delirium of a dying hag	M
Or necromancer's madness fall thy locks	A
Like sodden reeds that trail in Acheron	N
From shores of night and horror and thy hands	A
Like roots of cypresses uptorn in storm	O
That still retain their grisly provender	E
Make the glad wine and manna of the skies	A
Turn to a qualmish sickness in my veins	A
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The Ghoul	G
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And who art thou some white faced fool of God	K
With wings that emulate the giddy bird	K
And bloodless mouth for ever filled with psalms	A
In lieu of honest victuals Askest thou	J
My name I am the ghoul NecromaIor	E
In new made graves I delve for sustenance	A
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As man within his turnip fields I take	P
For table the uprooted slab that bears	A
The words 'In Pace ' black and curdled blood	K
Of cad vers is all my cupless wine	N
Slow drunken as the dainty vampire drinks	A
From pulses oped in never ending sleep	Q
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The Seraph	H
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O foulness Born as of the ninefold curse	A
Of dragon mouthed Apollyon plumed with darts	A
And armed with horns of incandescent bronze	A
O dark as Satan's nightmare or the fruit	K
Of Belial's rape on hell's bIack hippogriff	H
What knowest thou of Paradise where grow	E
The gardens of the manna laden myrrh	E
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And lotos never known to Ulysses	A
Whose fruit provides our long and sateless banquet	K
Where boundless fields unfurrowed and unsown	N
Supply for God's own appanage their foison	N
Of amber hearted grain and sesame	R
Sweeter than nard the Persian air compounds	A
With frankincense from isles of India	K
Where flame leaved forests infinitely teem	S
With palms of tremulous opal from whose tops	A
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Ambrosial honies fall forevermore	E
In rains of nacred light Where rise and rise	A
Terrace on hyacinthine terrace hills	A
Hung with the grapes that drip cerulean wine	N
One draught whereof dissolves eternity	R
In bliss oblivious and supernal dream	S
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The Ghoul	G
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To all the meat their bellies most commend	K
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To all the according wine For me I wot	K
The cates whereof thou braggest were as wind	K
In halls where men had feasted yesterday	K
Or furbished bones the full hyena leaves	A
Tiger and pig have their apportioned glutt	K
Nor lacks the shark his provender the bird	K
Is nourished with the worm of charnels man	N
Or the grey wolf will slay and eat the bird	K
Till wolf and man be carrion for the worm	T
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What wouldst thou As the elfin lily does	A
Or as the Paphian myrtle pale with love	H
I draw me from the unreluctant dead	K
The rightful meat my belly's law demands	A
Eaters of death are all life shall not live	H
Save that its food be death no atomy	T
In any star nor heaven's remotest moon	N
But hath a billion billion times been made	K
The food of insatiable life and food	K
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Of death insatiate for all is change	U
Change that hath wrought the chancre and the rose	A
And wrought the star and wrought the sapphire stone	N
And lit great altars and the eyes of lions	A
Change that hath made the very gods from slime	T
Drawn from the pits of Python and willing	C
Gods and their builded heavens back again	N
To slime The fruits of archangelic light	K
Thou braggest of and grapes of azure wine	N
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Have been the dung of dragons and the blood	K
Of toads in Phlegethon each particle	V
That is their splendor clomb in separate ways	A
Through suns and worlds and cycles infinite	K
Through burning brume of systems unbegun	N
And manes of long haired comets that have lashed	K
The night of space to Fury and to fire	E
And in the core of cold and lightless stars	A
And in immalleable metats deep	Q
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Each atomy hath slept or known the slime	T
Of cyclopean oceans turned to air	E
Before the suns of Ophiuchus rose	A
And they have known the interstellar night	K
And they have lain at root of sightless flowers	A
In worlds without a sun or at the heart	K
Of monstrous eyed and panting flowers of flesh	W
Or eon blooming amaranths of stone	N
And they have ministered within the brains	A
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Of sages and magicians and have served	K
To swell the pulse of kings and conquerors	A
And have been privy to the hearts of queens	A
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The Ghoul turns his back on the Seraph and moves away singing	C
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The Song	B
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O condor keep thy mountain ways	A
Above the long Andean lands	A
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Gier eagle guard the eastern sands	A
Where the Forsaken camel strays	A
Beetle and worm and I will ward	K
The Iardered graves of lout and lord	K
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Oh warm and bright the blood that Iies	A
Upon the wounded lion's trail	X
Hyena laugh and jackal wail	X
And ring him round who turns and dies	A
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Beetle and worm and I will ward	K
The lardered graves of lout and lord	K
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Arms of a wanton girl are good	K
Or hands of harp player and knight	K
Breasts of the nun be sweet and white	K
Sweet is the festive friar's blood	K
Beetle and worm and I will ward	K
The lardered graves of lout and lord	K

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