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By a route obscure and lonely, |
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Haunted by ill angels only, |
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Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, |
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On a black throne reigns upright, |
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I have reached these lands but newly |
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From an ultimate dim Thule- |
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From a wild clime that lieth, sublime, |
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Out of SPACE-out of TIME. |
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Bottomless vales and boundless floods, |
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And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods, |
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With forms that no man can discover |
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For the tears that drip all over; |
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Mountains toppling evermore |
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Into seas without a shore; |
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Seas that restlessly aspire, |
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Surging, unto skies of fire; |
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Lakes that endlessly outspread |
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Their lone waters-lone and dead,- |
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Their still waters-still and chilly |
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With the snows of the lolling. |
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By the lakes that thus outspread |
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Their lone waters, lone and dead,- |
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Their sad waters, sad and chilly |
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With the snows of the lolling lily,- |
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By the mountains-near the river |
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Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,- |
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By the grey woods,-by the swamp |
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Where the toad and the newt encamp- |
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By the dismal tarns and pools |
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Where dwell the Ghouls,- |
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By each spot the most unholy- |
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In each nook most melancholy- |
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There the traveller meets aghast |
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Sheeted Memories of the Past- |
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Shrouded forms that start and sigh |
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As they pass the wanderer by- |
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White-robed forms of friends long given, |
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In agony, to the Earth-and Heaven. |
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For the heart whose woes are legion |
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'Tis a peaceful, soothing region- |
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For the spirit that walks in shadow |
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'Tis-oh, 'tis an Eldorado! |
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But the traveller, travelling through it, |
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May not-dare not openly view it! |
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Never its mysteries are exposed |
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To the weak human eye unclosed; |
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So wills its King, who hath forbid |
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The uplifting of the fringed lid; |
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And thus the sad Soul that here passes |
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Beholds it but through darkened glasses. |
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By a route obscure and lonely, |
| [11:45.50] |
Haunted by ill angels only, |
| [11:58.97] |
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, |
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On a black throne reigns upright, |
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I have wandered home but newly |
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From this ultimate dim Thule |
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I feel wonderfull. |
