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Song of Triumph
Who is king but Epiphanes?
Say do you know?
Who is God but Epiphanes?
Say do you know?
There is none but Epiphanes
No — there is none:
So tear down the temples
And put out the sun!
Edgar Allan Poe
Originally Published in Poe’s story “Epimanes” in 1833