Melodies XLIX; Bathousae

"As smouldering cinders can attract, and singe, and slay

the fitful moth, so the distancing city, ancient Bathousae

on Lake Fallow's shore, beckons to demise the unsuspecting,

sacrificed to the Untoward, and that chaos it is erecting."

---Kermes Vermilio, The Vermillion Profanations

 

 

So many words from the Knave of Wallow wander;

one speculates on just how much he has to squander.

 

Starward

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The source of the epigraph first came to my attention when I read Taphless Gibler's scholary essay, "Grim Grimaces:  The False Gravitas Of Certain Grimoires."

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