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In The Tombs: A Sacred Poem

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Mar 18, 2025
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In The Tombs

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

I

I have loitered in the tombs,
Where a hundred charnel wombs
Spew forth death, and the beasts
Summoned from ten livid easts
Worry bones, and gnaw the skull
Scattered from some battle-cull;
Neither life, nor love, nor spark
Kindled in this marble park
Warms the soul: only …

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