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Dark forests Grow On my hairy belly, And in the stony fir-trees Gray wolves, In cope and coif, Having lit a taper, Serve The mass. Eternal, Not by hands created, I roll my eyes heavily As roll the mill-stones Of the blue Mills Of heaven.

Slowly I chew the cud of gray clouds, And Think Of perishing brothers With my wise Cheerful belly.