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Not warlike…

Blood-Spilled!

Not romantic…

 Heart-Thrilled!

Not adventurous…

Action-Filled!

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Instead,

our muse intends

to trill

it’s heaven-sent verse

‘gainst this…

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…Our players willed

to shape

the Faustian Fall

for well or ill.

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We’ll for him plead

a base-born life to lead…

Uphill!

So shortly sped

and earned

divinities title

of Theology, a doctor,

learned!

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Up and up…

he kept on rising,

’til waxen-wings

stopped him flying!

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But first,

before that flight,

is he within an earth-bound

state, and study found…

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There to slake his lack

with subtle sorceries, black!

The Arts of Dark pursuing

all thought for the Soul’s chief bliss,

denying…

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