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(lyrics taken from "Darkness" by Lord Byron)

I had a dream

The bright sun was extinguished

And the stars wandered in the eternal space

The icy earth swung blind and blackening

In the moonless air

Morn came and went

And men forgot their passions in the dread

Of this their desolation

All hearts were chilled into a selfish prayer for light

A fearful hope was all the world contained

Forests were set on fire hour by hour

They fell and faded

The crackling trunks extinguished with a crash

And all was black

And war did glut himself again

A meal was bought with blood

Gorging himself in gloom

The world was void

Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless