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Rh Both feet and arms are screwed till black— A sign that Hell reigns on, unstunned.

Then incense swung by priestesses,

Salute the newly, plunder'd dead,

The bloody sight upon the wrack,

Where cringing groans once rose unsummed,

Is cover'd by the murderess.

Where restless hawks and chainless ghouls

Blink bleary orbs at dust and stone;

And glozing night-gnomes love the sight

That geysers toss upon their crest,

Feal afrites bathe in a pool

And wash each harlot's bloody bone.

Scorpions on serai's height

Peer at each forge's raging breast,

Whilst faffling gumps aud hairless seers

Stretch shanks and arms and yawn till hoarse,

And vapours green and beacons red,

Feared coming Dawn, and fled in haste;

The bulwarks that each hoodlum fears,