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The Phoenix on the Sword

Alternate title:Road of Kings, The
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Under the caverned pyramids great Set coils asleep;Among the shadows of the tombs his dusky people creep.I speak the Word from the hidden gulfs that never knew the sun —Send me a servant for my hate, oh scaled and shining One!

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