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Where now the world

That glittered once golden --

That through lilt vision,

Perfume and tincture,

Summarily slew,

With potence and ardour,

Such shades verdure

In blight rumination?!

There now, a dream--

Or memoir of a specter,

Stripped of its aura

Plumed drusile serene.

Begowned hues ashen,

Now driftsick, careened,

Remotest dominion,

Thus e’er conceived.

What source, unrest,

Wept ambit sunder,

And dreamer drown

In chalice madden?

Wherefrom thy quest

Which soul sequestereth,

Yet crown to roam

Horizonless?

What Sun doth summon

Aye, knowingly so,

He, who with last exhalation

Should answer?

What son, enraptured,

All quarter forego,

Consigneth his essence

To oceans eternal?

Angle predestine

Headlong futile.

Sleet-scarred the querent,

League-marred the craft.

Channel revolving

Dissolveth hydral.

Chromium complectere

Spindle anfract.

Falter helmsman, ulterior.

Overwhelm, vitreous shroud.

Envelop whole, marmoreal.

Quell aphonic, depth profound.

Immersion syncopal.

Descend anoxia.

Cognition rescindere.

Enantiodromia.

Fall lord, brink through.

Break forth orb black.