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 III.

OND her palace wall Móo heard the chant

Of worshiper imploring Heaven to grant

Its bounteous rain, fresh life to Mother Earth,

The parched land to revive and save from dearth:

When the Master doth rise

To appear in the east

The four corners of heaven are released,

And my broken accents fall

Into the hands of Him who giveth all.

When clouds from east ascend

To the Orderer's throne—

Ah Tzolan, who thirteen cloud-banks rules alone—

Where the lords cloud-tearers wait,

Biding the will of Ah Tzolan the Great,

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