Reptile of the Rock
Royalty is its own riddle, but it does not always rhyme. It
may run red, true. Porphyrin is preferred. Yellow suits it
only in places filled with dread and not often visited.
Colors! - do these really matter? Plasma, neutrons, stars.
Triumph! It desires itself! Above all! This creates need.
Make alliances, humanity - to join forces is strong.
Say, passerby - partnership. Is this without its share of
vexing troubles? Such a combination - is it tough?
Lasting or brittle? Triangle of mountains, there you stood.
Each its own stoic stone. O immemorial time! How you
marched right on! Strugglers, thy vicissitudes! Like
shifting souffles in the pinhole curtain of night, fight!
Three sisters! Megalithic and mighty! How they made the
world the image of their wandering ways! Such a contest!
- not without horror. Grim spectre, are you usually
invoked? Upon this place of loud shouts and victorious
battle-cries, the tallest and sharpest sister held its
lineage high. Numerically speaking, my girl, you never
were strongest. But perhaps objectively, the most
venerable. Certainly in terms of pedigree it came swiftly
down to this one or the smaller yet thoroughly more
crowded sister in the land of the kindly west! - the
aggressor, the craftsmen claimed! So then! Royal sister,
thy hopes? In many lines, they rested with her neighbor
to the east, blue-collared as this one was blue-blooded.
Get here fast, men of wages! If you could be counted on,
numbers might be almost even! Otherwise our deficit is
severe. Bad! Unfortunate! Intimidating in the extreme!
Huge masses of men! - when you are not part of them,
these are a vast threat! How their gears leapt, churning!
Wheels of their chariots, you sent dust devils as smoke
signals, sparking and spinning up beneath! With
technique and technology, these the taller sisters held
high their hopes of making an impression. Guile was their
ally! - massive misperceptions, might you be made as the
result of it? Curtains, be certain! When your side is not
stronger militarily, planning is necessary. Opportunity! -
you must be made the most of. One thing only was
inevitable - before the great sacrifice! - the autumnal
festivities of the harvest! - each card would be played.
For better or worse, foreboding! Thus did the
high-honored captains and commanders of the tall
mountain, the regal and stern-appearing pinnacle-reptiles
of the rock, choose as proper. This place would do, to
pin their future's dream up. No surety! Uncertainty, you
ran things here! Tornados and twilight! - was there still
much to do? Yes! Misfortunes by the many, you might
stunningly occur. Still! Yet yoked were events! - things did
not seem out of hand. By the strategists of sunlight, all
would be revealed. Old they were, and excellence did
become them. Upon such crags and promontory are
great houses built.
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