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Little clay idol you are ten thousand millennia old;

little clay idol.

You were there to see the Pharaohs.

You were there before the moon;

little clay idol.

when the earth was but a child.

Ten thousand millennia ago.

You were there at the dawn of history.

You saw the great ship come to the shore.

Then you saw it leave once more.

Little clay idol.

You saw the birth of Eve

and the rise of man.

With your clay eyes you saw the cares and woes of civilizations --

numberless.

When the stars found their way into the heavens

you were there watching;

your face upturned.

When the day dawned on that first day

you walked in corporal flesh.

Goddess, God, Animal, Abomination,

your time has come again to speak.

For the people are awakening from their long slumber.

Some are prowling around in the wee hours of the morning

of the dawn of Man and Woman.

The millennia of enlightenment has yet to be named.

Now you stand before us elevated or maimed.

Little clay idol I invoke you to awaken.

There are souls to be bought

and some to be taken.

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