Fear! The God who walks upon the night
Here He stands in the dim moonlight
Cold, His gaze that rips you bare
Bold, His blue eyes and black-harrowed hair
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If you spy Him, in His all-dark cloak
Stiff of heart and mocking finger to stoak
Fire in your mind or shudder in your hand
Ire in your blood, courage made of sand.
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Throw the women and the children too
Sow the disease, abandon from your zoo!
Shame for this? Not before Him.
Lame are my legs at His terrible whim.
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Should you catch him, unveil his travist mask
Would you then see the Deceiver's bask?
See his mirth and his ugly address
Sea and sky throb at his mischievous mess.
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Look at him closely, and he shall say
"Hook line and sinker! So easily led astray!
Oh bow your heads to my clever way!
Know I am Fear, and you are my play.
My muse and humor, O'lovely and gay
Cry or sigh, your guilt shall never lay
May it torment you for generations away!
Stay in your suffering, no dawn on this day.
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Because this is what I do, make mockery of reason
And out with your logic, impulse is in season
Tortured by I, maybe then you'll learn
To cage your animals and temper your turn."
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Then he shall leave, without punishment or penance
Only his laughter, echoing through the tenements
Burnt and ruined by all of our terror;
All the madness, our blasphemous Fear