Semere
Absurd a primate scrap on play
From daybreak to twilight seen
But the curtain unveiled in decay
To reveal a deadly fate decreed
Humanity witnessed a sinister seed
Not North, nor South could stop
An advance of a misanthrope indeed
Leaving the Grim to reap the crop
O when will man ever awake
Rise up to look beyond the day
Before tomorrow becomes a wake
And lose his final hope of ray
As we stand spared at the present
Gazing at the last eclipse crescent
Gather your strength, hail the nascent
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