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Er Heb beyond the Hills of Ao Safai	A
Bears witness to the truth and Ao Safai	A
Hath told the men of Gorukh Thence the tale	B
Comes westward o'er the peaks to India	C
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The story of Bisesa Armod's child	D
A maiden plighted to the Chief in War	E
The Man of Sixty Spears who held the Pass	F
That leads to Thibet but to day is gone	G
To seek his comfort of the God called Budh	D
The Silent showing how the Sickness ceased	D
Because of her who died to save the tribe	H
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Taman is One and greater than us all	I
Taman is One and greater than all Gods	J
Taman is Two in One and rides the sky	K
Curved like a stallion's croup from dusk to dawn	G
And drums upon it with his heels whereby	K
Is bred the neighing thunder in the hills	L
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This is Taman the God of all Er Heb	K
Who was before all Gods and made all Gods	J
And presently will break the Gods he made	D
And step upon the Earth to govern men	M
Who give him milk dry ewes and cheat his Priests	N
Or leave his shrine unlighted as Er Heb	K
Left it unlighted and forgot Taman	M
When all the Valley followed after Kysh	O
And Yabosh little Gods but very wise	P
And from the sky Taman beheld their sin	M
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He sent the Sickness out upon the hills	L
The Red Horse Sickness with the iron hooves	Q
To turn the Valley to Taman again	M
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And the Red Horse snuffed thrice into the wind	D
The naked wind that had no fear of him	R
And the Red Horse stamped thrice upon the snow	M
The naked snow that had no fear of him	R
And the Red Horse went out across the rocks	S
The ringing rocks that had no fear of him	R
And downward where the lean birch meets the snow	M
And downward where the gray pine meets the birch	O
And downward where the dwarf oak meets the pine	M
Till at his feet our cup like pastures lay	T
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That night the slow mists of the evening dropped	D
Dropped as a cloth upon a dead man's face	U
And weltered in the Valley bluish white	D
Like water very silent spread abroad	D
Like water very silent from the Shrine	M
Unlighted of Taman to where the stream	V
Is dammed to fill our cattle troughs sent up	W
White waves that rocked and heaved and then were still	X
Till all the Valley glittered like a marsh	O
Beneath the moonlight filled with sluggish mist	D
Knee deep so that men waded as they walked	D
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That night the Red Horse grazed above the Dam	Y
Beyond the cattle troughs Men heard him feed	D
And those that heard him sickened where they lay	T
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Thus came the Sickness to Er Heb and slew	Z
Ten men strong men and of the women four	E
And the Red Horse went hillward with the dawn	M
But near the cattle troughs his hoof prints lay	T
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That night the slow mists of the evening dropped	D
Dropped as a cloth upon the dead but rose	A2
A little higher to a young girl's height	D
Till all the Valley glittered like a lake	B2
Beneath the moonlight filled with sluggish mist	D
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That night the Red Horse grazed beyond the Dam	Y
A stone's throw from the troughs Men heard him feed	D
And those that heard him sickened where they lay	T
Thus came the Sickness to Er Heb and slew	Z
Of men a score and of the women eight	D
And of the children two	Z
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Because the road	D
To Gorukh was a road of enemies	C2
And Ao Safai was blocked with early snow	M
We could not flee from out the Valley Death	D2
Smote at us in a slaughter pen and Kysh	O
Was mute as Yabosh though the goats were slain	M
And the Red Horse grazed nightly by the stream	V
And later outward towards the Unlighted Shrine	M
And those that heard him sickened where they lay	T
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Then said Bisesa to the Priests at dusk	E2
When the white mist rose up breast high and choked	D
The voices in the houses of the dead	D
quot Yabosh and Kysh avail not If the Horse	F2
Reach the Unlighted Shrine we surely die	K
Ye have forgotten of all Gods the Chief	A
Taman quot Here rolled the thunder through the Hills	L
And Yabosh shook upon his pedestal	G2
quot Ye have forgotten of all Gods the Chief	A
Too long quot And all were dumb save one who cried	D
On Yabosh with the Sapphire 'twixt His knees	C2
But found no answer in the smoky roof	A
And being smitten of the Sickness died	D
Before the altar of the Sapphire Shrine	M
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Then said Bisesa quot I am near to Death	D2
And have the Wisdom of the Grave for gift	D
To bear me on the path my feet must tread	D
If there be wealth on earth then I am rich	O
For Armod is the first of all Er Heb	K
If there be beauty on the earth quot her eyes	P
Dropped for a moment to the temple floor	E
quot Ye know that I am fair If there be love	A
Ye know that love is mine quot The Chief in War	E
The Man of Sixty Spears broke from the press	H2
And would have clasped her but the Priests withstood	D
Saying quot She has a message from Taman quot	D
Then said Bisesa quot By my wealth and love	A
And beauty I am chosen of the God	D
Taman quot Here rolled the thunder through the Hills	L
And Kysh fell forward on the Mound of Skulls	I2
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In darkness and before our Priests the maid	D
Between the altars cast her bracelets down	M
Therewith the heavy earrings Armod made	D
When he was young out of the water gold	D
Of Gorukh threw the breast plate thick with jade	D
Upon the turquoise anklets put aside	D
The bands of silver on her brow and neck	J2
And as the trinkets tinkled on the stones	K2
The thunder of Taman lowed like a bull	L2
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Then said Bisesa stretching out her hands	M2
As one in darkness fearing Devils quot Help	N2
O Priests I am a woman very weak	O2
And who am I to know the will of Gods	J
Taman hath called me whither shall I go quot	D
The Chief in War the Man of Sixty Spears	P2
Howled in his torment fettered by the Priests	N
But dared not come to her to drag her forth	Q2
And dared not lift his spear against the Priests	N
Then all men wept	D
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There was a Priest of Kysh	O
Bent with a hundred winters hairless blind	D
And taloned as the great Snow Eagle is	R2
His seat was nearest to the altar fires	S2
And he was counted dumb among the Priests	N
But whether Kysh decreed or from Taman	M
The impotent tongue found utterance we know	M
As little as the bats beneath the eaves	T2
He cried so that they heard who stood without	D
quot To the Unlighted Shrine quot and crept aside	D
Into the shadow of his fallen God	D
And whimpered and Bisesa went her way	T
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That night the slow mists of the evening dropped	D
Dropped as a cloth upon the dead and rose	A2
Above the roofs and by the Unlighted Shrine	M
Lay as the slimy water of the troughs	U2
When murrain thins the cattle of Er Heb	K
And through the mist men heard the Red Horse feed	D
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In Armod's house they burned Bisesa's dower	V2
And killed her black bull Tor and broke her wheel	W2
And loosed her hair as for the marriage feast	D
With cries more loud than mourning for the dead	D
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Across the fields from Armod's dwelling place	U
We heard Bisesa weeping where she passed	D
To seek the Unlighted Shrine the Red Horse neighed	D
And followed her and on the river mint	D
His hooves struck dead and heavy in our ears	P2
	-
Out of the mists of evening as the star	X2
Of Ao Safai climbs through the black snow blur	Y2
To show the Pass is clear Bisesa stepped	D
Upon the great gray slope of mortised stone	M
The Causeway of Taman The Red Horse neighed	D
Behind her to the Unlighted Shrine then fled	D
North to the Mountain where his stable lies	P
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They know who dared the anger of Taman	M
And watched that night above the clinging mists	Z2
Far up the hill Bisesa's passing in	M
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She set her hand upon the carven door	E
Fouled by a myriad bats and black with time	A3
Whereon is graved the Glory of Taman	M
In letters older than the Ao Safai	A
And twice she turned aside and twice she wept	D
Cast down upon the threshold clamouring	O2
For him she loved the Man of Sixty Spears	P2
And for her father and the black bull Tor	E
Hers and her pride Yea twice she turned away	T
Before the awful darkness of the door	E
And the great horror of the Wall of Man	M
Where Man is made the plaything of Taman	M
An Eyeless Face that waits above and laughs	B3
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But the third time she cried and put her palms	C3
Against the hewn stone leaves and prayed Taman	M
To spare Er Heb and take her	Y2