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First Line: Now the wry rosenbloom is dead
Last Line: Rosenbloom is dead
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


Now the wry Rosenbloom is dead
Now the wry Rosenbloom is dead
And his finical carriers tread,
And his finical carriers tread,
On a hundred legs, the tread
On a hundred legs, the tread
Of the dead.
Of the dead.
Rosenbloom is dead.
Rosenbloom is dead.
They carry the wizened one
Of the color of horn

They carry the wizened one
To the sullen hill,
Of the color of horn
Treading a tread
In unison for the dead.
To the sullen hill,
Rosenbloom is dead.
Treading a tread
The tread of the carriers does not halt
In unison for the dead.
On the hill, but turns

Up the sky.
Rosenbloom is dead.
The tread of the carriers does not halt
They are bearing his body into the sky.
On the hill, but turns
It is the infants of misanthropes
Up the sky.
And the infants of nothingness
They are bearing his body into the sky.
That tread

The wooden ascents
It is the infants of misanthropes
Of the ascending of the dead.
It is turbans they wear
And the infants of nothingness
And boots of fur
That tread
As they tread the boards
The wooden ascents
In a region of frost, .
Of the ascending of the dead.
Viewing the frost.

To a chirr of gongs
It is turbans they wear
And boots of fur
And a chitter of cries
And the heavy thrum
As they tread the boards
In a region of frost,
Of the endless tread
That they tread.
Viewing the frost.
To a jabber of doom

And a jumble of words
To a chirr of gongs
And a chitter of cries
Of the intense poem
Of the strictest prose
And the heavy thrum
Of Rosenbloom.
Of the endless tread
And they bury him there,
That they tread.
Body and soul,

In a place in the sky.
To a jabber of doom
And a jumble of words
The lamentable tread!
Of the intense poem
Rosenbloom is dead

Of the strictest prose
Of Rosenbloom.

And they bury him there,
Body and soul,
In a place in the sky.
The lamentable tread!
Rosenbloom is dead.





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