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     This one surprised me when I wrote it! Even in the MIDI version which you can hear by clicking on the button below, it is powerful indeed. The piano is the massive machine of the poem, working away, pounding away, in chunking bi-tonal triad/dominant seventh simultaneous chords (à la Stravinsky?), while the singer intones words of great foreboding. If it works for you, the hair on the back of your neck will stand up - it does for me, and I know exactly what to expect in the music! Here is the poem, brace yourself...