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"Burial Ballet"

To still the aching

     from my ***** breaking

In each grisly leaf it wither, --

     by the cage the heron tether --

I mistook the form of a mien of lady

     in an oracle dream to fade he,

To fade -- to merely fade --

       onto the winged-sylphs they grayed --

So, to deepen the burning spirit

       lent it soar with a soul inherit

From the clasping

      Cherubim heart in grasping --

Grasping despite

      that heaven I respite, --

Respite the beaming of the orb

     the angels may absorb

And decorum, of a single token

     hung afar in the sky that's broken

So to be still in the evil,

      binds only onto that mortal devil

In a sepulcher enraptured

      as all my hopes within me captured

Within some dim Acheronian shore

      in the depth sea the Acheronian store --

Store a most beautiful belle

      I've ever kept in me ***** swell,

To palpitate my heart faster

     into some unfortunate disaster

In keeping, the shadow of fire,

      irradiating an ominous choir, --

A nightly lurking swan

     whom the waking angels wan

Their fiery plumes parching

     above the misted nimbus arching

The dim ray lighting down

    from the heaven whom now frown, --

Yet, to still the aching

      from my ***** breaking

For the most beautiful belle

     I've ever felt me ***** swell

To be still in the evil

     binds onto that mortal devil.

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Nicaraguan
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Dec 1, 2011
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