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Erebus 
 
   "The region of the underworld through which the dead must pass" 
 
   I dreamt I sung out of a mouth of fin 
   and death kissed my mouth of tin 
   with death's own mouth which was as verdigris, 
   as soft solder on my tongue, as a foundry 
   of Egyptian bronzes smelt of copper and tin: 
 
   closed eye to dosed eye-- 
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