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I had a dream, which was not all a dream. |
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The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars |
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Did wander darkling in the eternal space, |
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Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth |
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Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; |
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Morn came and went -and came, and brought no day, |
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And men forgot their passions in the dread |
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Of this their desolation; and all hearts |
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Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light; |
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The world was void, |
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The populous and the powerful was a lump, |
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Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless - |
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A lump of death -a chaos of hard clay. |
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The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, |
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And nothing stirred within their silent depths; |
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Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, |
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And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropped |
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They slept on the abyss without a surge - |
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The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, |
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The moon, their mistress, had expired before; |
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The winds were withered in the stagnant air, |
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And the clouds perished! Darkness had no need |
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Of aid from them -She was the Universe! |
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A fearful hope was all the world contained; |
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Forests were set on fire -but hour by hour |
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They fell and faded -and the crackling trunks |
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Extinguished with a crash -and all was black. |
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