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A COSMOGONIC FRAGMENT by ANONYMOUS

First Line: HEAVEN AND EARTH BOTH TRAVAILED SORE
Last Line: AND THE EYES OF HIM WERE TWO TWIN SUNS
Heaven and earth both travailed sore,
Travailed too the azure sea;
From the sea their travail won
A reed of vermilion hue.
From the hollow of the reed leaped smoke,
From the hollow of the reed leaped flame;
And a young man bounded forth:
Hair like unto fire he had,
Yea, in sooth he had a beard of flame,
And the eyes of him were two twin suns.




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