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In mixed marriages / it is mostly the custom / for female children / to adhere to the maternal religion / While the Father / presides over / the mystical prattle / with ironical / commentary / from his arm -- chair / But by whichever / religious route / to brute / reality / our forebears speed us / (Perfection / being an obligation / shoved on to / the next generation)
There is always a pair / of idle adult / accomplices in duplicity / to impose upon their brood / ideals / erected upon such increate altitudes / that Man / in falling from contemplation / of a more simulacrum / has soused himself (in blood / since Time began)