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“Death, death it is,
their horrid voices croak,
as mountain rivers melt
in rushing floods. Yet even as waters boil,
deep within the earth
armies of the Angel rise,
trumpeting symphonies
of the apocalypse.”

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Stranger to the Beautiful

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