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Carmen Saeculare
…ed and roar : the azure hem That laps all lands is broken, lashed in fiery foam, And all God’s thunderbolts are crashed—against my home. Written in heaven, written on earth, written in the deep, Written by God’s own finger-birth ; the stars may weep, The sun rejoice, that see at last His vengeance strike ; The fury of destruction’s blast ; the fiery spike As of an arrow of adamant, comet or meteor : “ The dog returneth to his vomit : the ancient whore That sitteth upon many waters, even she That called together all her daughters upon the sea ; …
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