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Excerpt from Rothelan, Vol. 1 of 3: A Romance of the English Histories
This sacred book a sireless sybil wrote;
The eldest she of Pyrrha's earthborn race; -
The leaves are dragons' skins in Styges dipt; -
The god-slain Python's venom served for ink, -
And for a pen, the mystic authoress
Did pluck the wing of that accursed bird
Which prey'd upon Deucalion's ancestor.
The Prophetess.
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