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priests defiled the temple,
kings tarnished golden rings
satisfied the vile peasant’s
saviored souls would keep
but knowledge set them free across the
shadow's valley
to lands without birthright,
wanderers who dug in deep
found treasure with a price,
scruples petrified by might
unleashed, the black rock genie
cares not the holder’s needs
consuming whims and wishes
to selfish merchant’s glee
fueling ignorance with greed
canaan’s come of age now
fertile, glowing virgin bride
haggard matrons pray to see her
slash-faced and terrorized,
abr'am’s altered sacrifice |
