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Crown of glass

Ornate, impossibly particular

Elegance weighs heavy in hands so doddering and imprecise

Talisman, corundum sheen

Wheel of fire

Teeth of a worm

Sign of a greater beast

This here would turn

The receiving end

System would swivel like the stars in the sky

...but where is it?

Passed from hand to hand

Thread lost

Only trace

Monument of old gods' repose