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Fall of the Prince
Ballad regarding events which put the foundations of humanity out of whack
1. Prologue [darkly]
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A tune for him who once was called
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the Planetary Prince.
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The way he turned his back on love
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still makes immortals wince.
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Three hundred thousand years he served
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uplifting human kind
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Until Prince Caligastia
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{fell victim to his mind.}
2. The story
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The city of Dalamatia,
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long forgotten, dead and cold,
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Which should be standing yet today,
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five hundred thousand old
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Began the grand decline and fall
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with Daligastia's nod
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To teach the Prince was all-supreme,
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{that Caligastia's God.}
Mindful Webworks | Urantiana | Fall of the Prince, page 2
3.
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... Then came a great division.
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Doctrines misconstrued
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Deprived the rebel sixty of
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immortal spirit-food.
[brighter]
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Forty brave were led by Van
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Steadfast and true
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Many human followers
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kept loyal and faithful too.
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Forty thousand midway creatures
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So many cherubim
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Fell from glory, as did many
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loving seraphim
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(O, lovely seraphim!)
4. [darkly]
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.. Confusion perpetrated
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brought the city under seige.
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Defense preoccupied
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all those who hailed the Prince as leige.
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The gods were driven out by men
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and northwardly took flight.
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The house of our All-Father fell
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to Nog, of fire and light.
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5.
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One hundred sixty-two years later
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came a tidal wave
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Brick and timber broke .. and
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flowed into its wat'ry grave
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Like all such schemes of ego,
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the Prince's plan was fated
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to have almost every vestige of
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his plan obliterated.
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6. Epilogue [hopefully]
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Although the Prince's sins destroyed
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all he did for men
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We'll someday build
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an age more Light
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and Livelier
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than
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back
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then.....
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