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Beneath the Howling Stars

Midwinter wrongs the rites of spring

Her spinal chill rakes the earth

Whilst pensive souls at zero sing

Would be tidings of rebirth

Under cold stares of Mars maligned

Near suicides cross their hearts

And unborn writhe in tepid brine

For something wicked this way startsOhh, ohh

Ohh, ohh

Ohh, ohh

Ohh, ohhBeneath the howling starsElizabeth, paragon of vice

Watches the sun set pyres alight

As bane and tyranny, her doberman sleep

Like spellbound paramours at her feetA chatter of bells without

Raise hell hounds, teeth on edge

From sleighs hastened through snow lit red

Guests espied from the garret ledgeGreat gloomy mirror tell her face

She will out blind them all

That heavenly bodies would fall from grace

To possess such a lustrous pallFor beauty is always cruel

For beauty is alwaysLet destiny in chains commence

Damnation under God's seeking recompense

Enslaving to the whims of this mistressOhh

As the dance ensued Elizabeth's mood

Tempered by the craft of a vitreous moon

In slick black iciness it grew

To consumeThe wench her tower tombed

Tending to her costume

Bore the brunt of the storm

When the needle a skewed

She has her dogs maul the bitch's wrists through

Restored to jaded blissIn a wonder white dress

Descended to the ball

With painted blood upon her lips

Passing like a comet so white as to eclipse

The Waltz wound down, transfixedDevoid of all breath in the air

Even death paled to compare

To the taint of her splendor

So rare and engendered

Upon the awed throng gathered, thereBeneath the howling starsShe danced so macabre

Men entranced divined from her gait

That this angel stepped from a pedestal

Had won remission from fate

By alighting to darker spheres

Delighting in held sway

For she was not unlike the goddess

To whom the wolves bayed{Whilst envy glanced daggers from court maidens, arbored

Who whispered in sects of suspicions abroad

That Elizabeth bewitched see how even now the whore casts

Her spells upon the Black Count whom her reddened lips hold fast}Tongue unto tongue swept on tides without care

For the harpies who rallied their maledict glares

A halo of ravens tousled her hair

Chandeliers a tiara for passions ensnaredFantasies sexed

When their eyes, moonstruck met

Their friction wore a way

Through the sea of foreplay

Lovers at first bite

She an Eve tempted to lay

Gasping at rafters

Flesh pressed in balletBut caprice, honours leashed

She absconded the feast

To prowl wonderland beasts in hand from the keep

Of feudal dilemma well mantled in furs

Through cullis to watch dogstars howl at the earthOn this violent night

Unholy night

Winds lashed their limbs together

As the ether vent its wintry spiteShe wished his kiss on her frozen landscapes

To excite the bleak advance

From castle bowers

Wherein small hours

The Devil never came by chance

A lone charm tied to her inner thigh

Sent lusts nova as hooves trod

Cobbled streets where lowlives fleet

Were flung to a wayward GodMidwinter wrongs the rites of spring

Her spinal chill rakes the earth

Whilst pensive souls at zero sing

Woebetidings of rebirth

Under cold stares of Mars maligned

Near suicides cross their hearts

And unborns writhe in tepid brine

For something wicked this way startsBeneath the howling starsPounding upon the pauper ridge

Earshot of a hunched beldame

Elizabeth teased, would he dare to please

Such elderly loins enflamed?

To this he feigned a grim disdain

Playing to her slayful eyeBut the hag replied "This girl that chides

Will soon be as plagued with age as I"

Her consort laughed a plume of icy breath

For Elizabeth's grace could raise

A flag of truce in burning heaven

Or the dead from early graves

Yet still she seethed this proud Snow Queen

Embittered with the cursed retort

And because he sought her loves onslaught

He gutted the crone for sportSoon in full moon fever they were wed

Lycanthropic in the conjugal bed

Littered with aphrodisiacs

To tease dynastic union

And beget them further maniacsElizabeth free reigned, now a countess

Outwielded and outwore

Her title like a favoured dress

Whilst her errant Lord

Whose seasons savoured war

Stormed black to fell the infidel

Her embers, tempered, roared

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