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Pass the threshold!

So blind you are, groping for Appollonian essence,

With sight whereon infinity stranded

Offer tithe to phosphorus statues,

They hear..

Offer tribute to currents serpentine,

Divide flesh, paint crimson the altar with blood flow

Behold the ethereal glow, dreaming colors

And witness: the mind flailing into deep reverie

Howbeit, the flesh strain ever, tho apart

Thou shalt wander the black maze of water uncompassed,

Wherefore thy deafened ear, wanderer?

Heaving, thy pulses run, then shall fade

And hopest thou close to undoing!

Hollowed being, no path

Oblivion beckons, whence you came!

Vaulted mouth, thine entrance is false!