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The silence already funereal spreads a pall

His lips not drinking there or baiting breath

Its muzzle all aflame with savage howls

Idol of Anubis

Aflame...

In the fluttering veil that girds her absence round

We breathe in always, thought it brings us to death

His century appalled at never having heard

That in this voice triumphant death had sung its hymn

As to himself at last

eterrnity changes him

the poet reawakens

They, like a writhing Hydra

bestow a purer sense

Calm block fallen here from obscure disaster

Mark the boundaries evermore

To the dark flighs of blasphemy hurled to the future