Christ Centered Gamer

LO! 't is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.

Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly;
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their condor wings
Invisible Woe.

That motley drama—oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot;
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

But see amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude:
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes—it writhes!—with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And over each quivering form
In human gore imbued.

Out—out are the lights—out all!
And over each quivering form
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.


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Nice. I feel I should recognize that.

Chozon1 wrote:Nice. I feel I should recognize that.

You should.

Are you going to tell me?

It's Edgar Allen Poe's The Conqueror Worm.

You don't read much do you?

They seem oblivious to a soft spring rain... Like an English rain.

The Camera Eye amirite?

I has ter...

Orodrist wrote:It's Edgar Allen Poe's The Conqueror Worm.

You don't read much do you?

In the past few weeks, I've cut back. But yes, I normally read a lot. I have no access to a library and no one else in my house likes Poe. So unless I purchase a Poe book myself, I ain't getting one. /isbothered.

Chozon1 wrote:

Orodrist wrote:It's Edgar Allen Poe's The Conqueror Worm.

You don't read much do you?

In the past few weeks, I've cut back. But yes, I normally read a lot. I have no access to a library and no one else in my house likes Poe. So unless I purchase a Poe book myself, I ain't getting one. /isbothered.

Public domain.

Go download them.

Is that legal?

GarthVader wrote:Is that legal?

They're out of copyright.

In other words, there's loads of free ebooks that you can download legally.

Go do so.

Orodrist wrote:The Camera Eye amirite?

Success!

Orodrist wrote: Public domain.

Go download them.

Are. You. Flipping. Serious?

I'ma be gone for awhile.