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THE SHELL - ZaunköniG - 10.08.2014 THE SHELL THE world is but a hollow breathing shell By some chance wave cast on these shores of time, Still keeping in its ever-haunting chime The tameless voice of chaos' ancient spell. At whiles in its dark concave thunders swell. Waking the echoes of creation's prime, And solemn memories of that day sublime When through void gulfs of space light did upwell. Lo, evermore within the heavy ear Of sleeping, sodden, crass mortality It sobs its ceaseless warning, year by year, That o'er it once again shall heave night's sea; And whoso hearkens, hushed and tense, may hear The awful whispers of eternity. |