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DarknessI had a dream, which was not all a dreamThe bright sun was extinguish’d and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went – and came, and brought no day, And men forget their passions in dread Of this their desolation; The world was void The populous and the powerful was a lump Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death – a chaos of hard clay The rivers lakes, and ocean, all stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish’d; darkness had no need Of aid from them – she was the universe |