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The Desecraters

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Witness all: that unrepenting,     Feathers flying, music high,     I go down to death unshaken     By your mean philosophy.     For your wages, take my body,     That at least to you I leave;     Set the sulky plumes upon it,     Bid the grinning mummers grieve.     Stand in silence: steep your raiment     In the night that hath no star;     Don the mortal dress of devils,     Blacker than their spirits are.     Since ye may not, of your mercy,     Ere I lie on such a hearse,     Hurl me to the living jackals     God hath built for sepulchres.

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