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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 57773, member: 56"]Foul Hecate, encirc’d with bats of ignorance and fear,</p><p>Astride her broom, would dark the world with superstitious straws</p><p>And ever strives to penetrate the densely buoyant fumes</p><p>Of modern age enlightenment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Borne high on robust pillars of most valiant hope</p><p>The lamps of inspiration forthly pour this reeking fog</p><p>Unceasing into space, to ward from planet Earth</p><p>The everlasting malice of insipient night.</p><p><br /></p><p>And lo! The masques of Comedie and Tragedie,</p><p>Those muses of the human animus, bolster these foundations of ambitious promise</p><p>Their afflatus consecrated through histories of ethnologic lore,</p><p>Recorded, else whiles subsumed, swayed by influence of four leaf clovers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wingéd wheel of fortune turns, and having turned wings on,</p><p>For good or ill the adumbrations of exigent prognostication</p><p>Are read, and fretted, and divined upon by magi of prodigious mien</p><p>And underlay the expedition of the supernatant corporeality.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Psyche, lithe shibboleth of ethereal quintessence, decamps</p><p>From darkling wildwood of sibylline myst’ry to gaze</p><p>Through penumbrant reflection into the wellspring of clear thinking,</p><p>Into the ovate globe of adamantine crystal. She spies predestination.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sheltered, she, ‘neath cold steel of equine cleat,</p><p>Ancestral attribute of fortune, emblazoned with its lesser ilk</p><p>Weaned from barb’rous tribes of antediluvian genesis</p><p>Tamed now, acquiescent in the radiant glow of civility.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here see the leporine foot, fantastic lure to dark skinned deepest Africa</p><p>Furcula, emblem of eternal hope to all but fated Meleagris</p><p>Here also see the aboriginal boomerang, allegoric of altruism recompensed,</p><p>And here the swastika, hooked cross charm of primal Amerindian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 57773, member: 56"]Foul Hecate, encirc’d with bats of ignorance and fear, Astride her broom, would dark the world with superstitious straws And ever strives to penetrate the densely buoyant fumes Of modern age enlightenment. Borne high on robust pillars of most valiant hope The lamps of inspiration forthly pour this reeking fog Unceasing into space, to ward from planet Earth The everlasting malice of insipient night. And lo! The masques of Comedie and Tragedie, Those muses of the human animus, bolster these foundations of ambitious promise Their afflatus consecrated through histories of ethnologic lore, Recorded, else whiles subsumed, swayed by influence of four leaf clovers. The wingéd wheel of fortune turns, and having turned wings on, For good or ill the adumbrations of exigent prognostication Are read, and fretted, and divined upon by magi of prodigious mien And underlay the expedition of the supernatant corporeality. And Psyche, lithe shibboleth of ethereal quintessence, decamps From darkling wildwood of sibylline myst’ry to gaze Through penumbrant reflection into the wellspring of clear thinking, Into the ovate globe of adamantine crystal. She spies predestination. Sheltered, she, ‘neath cold steel of equine cleat, Ancestral attribute of fortune, emblazoned with its lesser ilk Weaned from barb’rous tribes of antediluvian genesis Tamed now, acquiescent in the radiant glow of civility. Here see the leporine foot, fantastic lure to dark skinned deepest Africa Furcula, emblem of eternal hope to all but fated Meleagris Here also see the aboriginal boomerang, allegoric of altruism recompensed, And here the swastika, hooked cross charm of primal Amerindian.[/QUOTE]
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