Key: A
Introduction:
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In the mind of god
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The dead sleeping lie
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And the little cogs though unmoving
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Hover over the turning wheel
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All life's a farce
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The broken bird is draped over the paths and paths
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And paths and paths
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And those who say this world is not
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The bloody gleaming paradise of blood and jewel
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Lie
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Opal and pearl bloodsocket castings
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Ruby jasmine jasper and onyx
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Chalcedonthrone and ambergriscrown
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Golden green leafwork
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Scrolled with the farstars
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Pitted ~~~with the moonworlds
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Mother alldewey
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Arrayed with the twinkling lights
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The wovengold spungilded ~~~~blinking godeyes
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The spearshafts of heaven
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The souldwelling rockhomes
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Are...
Dormition and Dominion
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We have lived before and shall live again
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And again
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We have slept before and shall sleep again
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We have danced through the shallow pools
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And shall rejoice
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Once again
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To those who say there is no hope
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I say... liars
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Liars
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Liars you are
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Over the starry dancing stars
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There is a land
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Under the sweatribbed brow
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There is a land
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And this is the globed world of ~~~~the Pantocrator
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Died in lines and died in singular
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Finally I have understood
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I have understood
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I have understood
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Though when I slip sleeping and silently
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From this ribbed room of sighs
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You shall not find the history of His personal visit
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Sewn into my linings perhaps
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Nevertheless I have understood
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Where the logician watches god hinge all on a die
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Nevertheless I have understood!
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That all this is the breathbetween moment
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Our eyeslids open and close
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Between is the land
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Between the time I first was accepted
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In between Your brightboned body
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"Goodbye my love goodbye to you"
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Goodybye, oh goodbye
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There was the land
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In the pearls of our heart
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There is the immaculate heavenly loveland
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In the middle of the forest Acton is slain by his own hounds
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In the middle of the forest Eustace meets the crisscross Stag
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There is the land he has reached paradise
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There is no death
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There is no death
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There as the stag turns and smiled loved
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There he was takencaught by the prey
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All the flowers are blossoming
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"Dormition" - so you sleep
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"Dominion" - so you rule
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Dormition - oh You sleep, Mother
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Dominion - Father, You rule