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Death’s Black Riders

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Fantastical
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The hangman asked of the carrion crow, but the raven made reply:“Black ride the men who ride with Death beneath the midnight sky,“And black each steed and grey each skull and strange each deathly eye.“They have given their breath to grey old Death and yet they cannot

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