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Lo! ’tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! A mystic throng, bewinged, besight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theater, 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, wo come and go At bidding of vast shadowy 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 the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued.
Out — out are the lights — out all! And, over each dying form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, And the seraphs, all haggard and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
A collection of comic strips chronicling the misadventures of Orson, a piglet separated from his mother, who goes to live with the wacky farm
animals of U.S.Acres.
Unstrange Phenomena by Ed Allison
Viivi & Wagner by Juba
Comments (6) (Please sign in to comment)
Bruno Zeigerts said, 2 months ago
Must be one of those Conquering Worms.
In a fight, who would win, the Angry Birds or the Conquering Worms?
My money would be on the worms…
F6F5Hellcat said, 2 months ago
@Bruno Zeigerts
Lo! ’tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
A mystic throng, bewinged, besight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theater, 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, wo come and go
At bidding of vast shadowy 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 the angels sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
Out — out are the lights — out all!
And, over each dying form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
And the seraphs, all haggard and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, “Man,”
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
-Edgar Allan Poe The Conqueror Worm
Bruno Zeigerts said, 2 months ago
@F6F5Hellcat
O-kay … but I was thinking more of the computer game with bazooka armed worms…
NightShade09 said, 2 months ago
That worm would be great for fishing. He could knock out the fish, put ’em on the hook, and send ’em right up!
Toonerific
said, 2 months ago
Amazing how working out gives you chest hairs :-)
F6F5Hellcat said, 2 months ago
@Bruno Zeigerts
Never heard of the computer game. But your comment made me think of Poe.