AMUCK!

 

Grady McMurtry

 

 

When out the misty future clears

The written history of the years,

Across those scrolling pages laced

The fury of our storm is traced

In burnished gold, for from the walls

Of mighty Karnak’s carven halls

Shrill silvery bugles sound the charge!

Come, Soldier-Priests of ancient Tharge

Arise ye Templars of the Graal

Send forth the ringing challenge: Hail

The rebirth of the Laws of Pan

Reclaim your heritage and span

The waiting world. That which effaced

Our holy cause must be erased

With fiery sword and lifted rod

The mystic symbol of our God!

And when the dawn proclaims the day

Then may the crawling Christians pray.

 

Thus it came that as the aeons crept or fled the spirit grew;

Out of elemental substance foamed the hot and potent brew.

 

Foamed and spewed in theurgic rhythm, roared a thundering litany;

Molded from its psychic forces our enshrined epiphany!

 

Stood our pantheon incarnate vesting full the Will of Man,

Glowing in its royal splendor, filling the imperial plan.

 

Brooded then within the mountains,

From the park, between the fountains

Came a cyclone funnel roiling,

Holy, sacred Nago coiling

Rearing high the hydra hood

Which sign and token of the Rood

Guards with his canopy the Priest,

Our Lord of Lords, our King—THE BEAST!

 

Now our champion before us

Striking in the sight of Horus

Down into the valley swinging;

With a surging timbre ringing

Bright battle axe and arching sword

Slash in and through the serried hoard

Of those who thought to bound their hope

Within their own small meagre scope.

 

Hooves of thunder are a pealing

Roll as back they stagger reeling

From the black mailed Knights of Heiro,

Adepts of the station zero,

Sit their steeds of mighty thew

Swing out and then come shearing through

To criss and cross behind these cattle

Stampeding from the shock of battle!

 

So mote it be!

 

Ho the rebels

Hail the carnage,

See the piles of stinking slain

Where the Christians met their Masters

South of Ulan, on the plain.

 

So in triumphal procession march the Lords of Karnak back

Tie their wounds and burn their dead before their bloody arms they stack.

 

As in wild and joyous revelry carillon and cymbals ring

Giving homage to our chosen Gods and glory to our King.

 

For on the littered plain this day was cleared an ancient wrong

The infidels were made to pay and yield unto the strong.

 

Yea, ruthless as the cleansing sea we crush the Christian might

And now they lie enslaved before our revered Gods of Night!

 

What mortal man can do to Man they did unto our sires

But we, immortal, gathered strength from sacrificial fires.

 

Reincarnated stand the host that bridged the gulfs of time

Avenging what the Church of Rome had poisoned in its prime!

 

We honored not a craven slave

But followed one who deigned to brave

And tread the curving, star strewn path

Beyond our universe, the wrath

Of Chaos slumbered, to our sight

The darkness sheds eternal light.

 

Now to the joyous sacrifice

As cringing heathens pay the price

By dozens and by hetacomb

They taste the justice that was Rome

Upon our altars, as we feast

And give ovation to the Priest

Whose slashing knife unstops a flood

Of living, heady, salted blood

To overflow the hallowed cup

The Chalice held that we may sup

The symbol of eternity;

Our union, our fraternity

Of mind and body, soul and thought:

Our one is all, our ALL is nought!

 

 

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