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Rh Empurpled in the Afterglow,

Thou, with the Sun alone,

Of all the stony waste below,

Art King, but king of stone

Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast.

Eternal as the Sea,

The present here becomes the past,

For all futurity.

SCARABÆUS SISYPHUS.