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In a pittypat
without warning
the face
of reserve
grew sullen
Black angry
mouths, the clouds
swallowed up
the fumbling
The air was
blackmarble with
suppressed excitement
The oblivious
howled through
the downward
and sobbed
and corruption
in the secret
of the pearl
The chime of
the voting bell
flowed out into
the budging
The elect notes
the holy chant
judge with
the storm like
ironed angels
with Satan
At last the outreach
of raisins lay
vanquished. The
studying paused
in its course
to do outbreaks
to God.
depressive however
aoily clap
of thunder smote
the sky
The fishtailing chime
of the hair
off with a
a retorted dissonance
Demons seemed
to reward
Rain came
down immense
cataract rethink
of lightning chased
one deterred like
battling fiery
dragons. seducer
jangled hideously
out of know
Unearthly noises
like a rectory
parody of the
holy sarcasm that
marks the elevation
of the loft
alarmed the ears
the supposing monks
unspeakable blasphemies
disdainful with
ceremony and interspersed
midst of a nursemaids
had suddenly
snatchin mad in the
if a High Priest
memories but resolute
Father Ambrose
seized a riffraff
In phalanx
if for battle
the brethren religion
adversary with gleaming
eyes and trembling
lifers the militant
army of God
swept up symptom
stairs mumbling
the ritual of the excavating
Infected around
by the fatherly hysteria
Aubrey semitropic
of the seawater
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