Sunday, February 07, 2010

The Millennium of Doctor Faustus

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Saddle their steeds and ride.

Tales are heard of monstrous births,

Downpours of blood and milk,

And a triple moon appears in the German skies.

Pestilence decimates Europe,

A thunderbolt strikes the Vatican,

Knocking the Pope from his throne.

War and insurrection

Laugh through the bones of the soon-to-be-dead.

The Devil’s agents are everywhere.

And the Prince of Necromancers appears among men,

To turn earth into water,water into air,

Air into fire,-and see the crow’s head,

The ashes of Hermes’ tree.

Haloed with the planets’ orbits,

He strolls in a castle garden,

Blooming in winter

And plots invocations

For the victory of his Emperor’s armies.

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