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shadows in ancient time - john zorn lyrics

i see the four*fold man, the humanity in deadly sleep
and its fallen emanation, the spectre and its cruel shadow
i see the past, present and future existing all at once
before me. o divine spirit, sustain me on thy wings
that i may awake albion from his long and cold repose;
for bacon and newton, sheath’d in dismal steel, their terrors hang
like iron scourges over albion: reasonings like vast serpents
infold around my limbs, bruising my minute articulations

i turn my eyes to the schools and universities of europe
and there behold the loom of locke, whose woof rages dire
wash’d by the water*wheels of newton: black the cloth
in heavy wreaths folds over every nation: cruel works
of many wheels i view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic
moving by compulsion each other, not as those in eden, which
wheel within wheel, in freedom revolve in harmony and peace

- john zorn lyrics

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