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I can feel the cruel, the very cruel chill of the executioner’s destroying scourge.

ChorusThey do such things, the younger gods, who rule, wholly beyond justice, a throne dripping blood,about its foot, about its head. I can see the center-stone of the earth defiled with a terrible pollution of blood.