Harbingers of Unimagined Horrors

Music: Night on Bald Mountain.
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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!

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