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Crembalum: Latin. jews harp, jaw harp, mouth harp, gewgaw

 

Crembalvm

oh crackle fire let flame and quell a sound, this sound upon such spell that cast a tone to ear nearby and changed by cheek and timely sigh along down track and hoof-fall tread at mid of night and wandering dead a single player wrote this eve with harp to mouth, oh crackled weave that to himself came lost in dust ‘neath the shadow of Vesuvius then turned to stone his twisted hum for still he plays his crembalum crembalum ori admotum, digito

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