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Frenzied oracles foretelling

the ascent from fathomless gloom

of the one abiding in the depths

from beyond, almighty terror

On the black midnight wind

I heard the far ringing of deep-toned bells

through gateways of recalling

beckoned me back to elder towers

Fused into one mysterious cosmic drone

Echoes from outer voids

Elder signs and primal secrets

Wrapped in red as scarlet flame

Linked with all the laws of time and space

Certain ancient things form a trace,

a sign of continuity

I knew that through the cosmic dome

those rays were calling from my far lost home

Standing in primordial ruin, the dreamless one

Endless desolation, oblivious darkness

Onwards, bring the light to me

For it is time to show thy power

Down the vastness in starlit streams of hours

where the great river begins it’s course

the source of every unplaced memory

lurks beyond man’s present comprehension

That lost world floating dimly on time’s stream

I do not know if ever it existed

And shimmering at the back of some indistinct dream

And yet I see it often, violet-misted

the nether pits to those foul grey worlds

hidden deep in nightmare’s well

he welcomes me into his amorphous grasp

In labyrinths obscure and undefined