Harbingers of Unimagined Horrors

Music: Night on Bald Mountain. By Modest Moussorgsky. Sequenced by Tony Matthews at Kunst der Fuge.

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Harbingers of unimagined horrors, Avatars of those who rule the night, Lurking in the shallows of our shadows Like fish that lack the lungs to breathe the light; Omens from an almanac of sorrows Written on a midnight long ago, Etched into the mirrors of our marrows, Ever masks for what we dare not know: Now revel with us till the cocks thrice crow!