[00:36.94]I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
[00:44.05]The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars
[00:49.95]Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
[00:54.38]Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
[00:59.26]Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
[01:06.30]Morn came and went -and came, and brought no day,
[01:14.20]And men forgot their passions in the dread
[01:17.20]Of this their desolation; and all hearts
[01:23.76]Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light;
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[02:35.85]The world was void,
[02:40.70]The populous and the powerful was a lump,
[02:46.99]Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless -
[02:53.60]A lump of death -a chaos of hard clay.
[02:59.30]The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still,
[03:04.10]And nothing stirred within their silent depths;
[03:07.50]Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
[03:10.85]And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropped
[03:15.09]They slept on the abyss without a surge -
[03:18.70]The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
[03:24.60]The moon, their mistress, had expired before;
[03:28.90]The winds were withered in the stagnant air,
[03:31.50]And the clouds perished! Darkness had no need
[03:36.70]Of aid from them -She was the Universe!
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[05:20.37]A fearful hope was all the world contained;
[05:27.80]Forests were set on fire -but hour by hour
[05:31.30]They fell and faded -and the crackling trunks
[05:35.20]Extinguished with a crash -and all was black.
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