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One Savage Word
He, sad brother of darkness,
And she, drab sister of sin,
Tore from the crumbling evening
One savage word, Begin;
Defiant flung it up high heaven's stair
Against the door of shining dividend.
Rebounding, lit to fatal glow, it fell
Sounding the low dull monotone of End.
William Davidson
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