The Forge of Los
In Bowlahoola Los's Anvils stand and his Furnaces rage; Thundering the Hammers beat, and the Bellows
blow loud, Living, self-moving, mourning, lamenting, and howling incessantly Bowlahoola thro' all its porches
feels, tho' too fast founded, Its pillars and porticoes to tremble at the force Of mortal or immortal arm; and
softly lilling flutes, Accordant with the horrid labours, make sweet melody The Bellows are the Animal
Lungs, the Hammers the Animal Heart, The Furnaces the Stomach for digestion; terrible their fury! Thousands
and thousands labour, thousands play on instruments, Stringèd or fluted, to ameliorate the sorrows of
slavery. Loud sport the dancers in the Dance of Death, rejoicing in carnage. The hard dentant Hammers
are lull'd by the flutes' lula lula, The bellowing Furnaces' blare by the long-sounding clarion, The double
drum drowns howls and groans, the shrill fife shrieks and cries, The crooked horn mellows the hoarse
raving serpent -- terrible but harmonious.
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By PanEris
using Melati.
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