“I am the black crow king,
Keeper of the forgotten corn,
The King!”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, The Firstborn Is Dead (1985), Black Crow King
“I am the King.”
Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones — scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago — was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
Source: 1970s, The Fountains of Paradise (1979), Ch. 11 “The Silent Princess”, p. 65
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