[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTVon7q9eTo&feature=player_profilepage[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
The Conqueror Worm, Edgar Allan Poe<\/p>\n
Lo! ‘t is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years!
\nAn angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears,
\nSit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears,
\nWhile the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres.<\/p>\n
Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low,
\nAnd hither and thither fly\u2014 Mere puppets they, who come and go
\nAt bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro,
\nFlapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo!<\/p>\n
That motley drama\u2014oh, be sure It shall not be forgot!
\nWith its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not,
\nThrough a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot,
\nAnd much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.<\/p>\n
But see, amid the mimic rout, A crawling shape intrude!
\nA blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude!
\nIt writhes!\u2014it writhes!\u2014with mortal pangs
\nThe mimes become its food,
\nAnd seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.<\/p>\n
Out\u2014out are the lights\u2014out all! And, over each quivering form,
\nThe curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,
\nWhile the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm
\nThat the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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