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78 A drunken villain who was bled

As drink his convulsed entrails tossed,

Writhes with the cramps upon the grass

And glares at the face of his god,

Whose wrinkled skin, in ghastly wrath,

Provoked at this son in revolt,

Rants his spleen to the slabs of Doom,

From whence gyte monsters with a rod,

That oft gave imps a bloody bath,

Hythe, and before their master halt;

And, then came unhung, battling gloom!

The dome cracked like a clashing star,

All lights were muffled in a shroud,

Wild winds that cought us in their fold,

Dashed wrecks unto a reeking zone.

In Thralldom's grasp we waged giant war,

The storms rasped at each cursing crowd,

From regions far there sprung a cold

That froze each hoodlum stuck in loam.

There, garbed in the wastes of a moat,

Gangrel witches scan the slime to curse