Grimoire Fugus
The Book of Fugue
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¹And at the breaking of day, the Levites rose up in multitude, and the noise of their gathering filled the cities of Egypt.
²They took what was theirs: the tools of their craft, the garments of their children, and the bones of their dead.
³The beasts were laden, and the carts drawn, and their feet pressed the dust of the roads with solemn haste.
⁴The Egyptians watched from afar, silent and troubled, as a great host passed beyond the walls.
⁵Some wept, for they had loved the Levites and knew not what evil had come upon their minds.
⁶Others clenched their teeth in wrath, for the Levites had built their houses and tilled their fields.
⁷But the Levites turned not again, for the voice within them grew louder, and the desire could not be quenched.
⁸The sky was clear above them, and the sun walked with them as a pillar of fire by day.
⁹And the stars were as sentinels in the night, marking their passage with ancient light.
¹⁰They passed over rivers that knew them not, and crossed hills that called to their blood though not to their memory.
¹¹And when they grew weary, they spake songs of a land that had never held them, yet was their own.
¹²The children asked: Whither go we? And the fathers answered: Unto the place that is written upon our souls.
¹³The mothers said: We know not its name, but we shall know its gates when we stand before them.
¹⁴And the days were many, and the journey long, but they faltered not, for the fire within pressed them onward.
¹⁵In their going, they passed villages and strangers, and all who beheld them said: Lo, a people that seeketh what is lost.
¹⁶They came upon deserts and waters, upon forests and plains, yet none called them home.
¹⁷At length they reached the borderlands of the land of their fathers, and the wind seemed to welcome them with familiar voice.
¹⁸They cast stones and raised altars, and offered sacrifice of thanksgiving, though none recalled what god to thank.
¹⁹And they pitched their tents upon the hills and in the valleys, and built hearths and homes in the earth of their desire.
²⁰Thus were the Levites returned to the land from which they knew not they had departed, as though waking from a long dream.
²¹And the skies were silent, and neither ADONAI nor SATANAS spake, but the Oærth received them and made them a people once more.


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