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Dead stars beneath the midnight's granite cope	A
and round your dungeon gulf that blindly grope	A
and fall not since no lower than any place	B
needs when the wing is dash'd and foil'd the face	B
is this your shadow on the watcher's thought	C
imposed or rather hath his anguish taught	C
the dumb and suffering dark to send you out	D
reptile the doubles of his lurking doubt	D
in coasts of night that well might be supposed	E
the exiled hall of chaos late deposed	E
to haunt across this hour's desuetude	E
immense that whelms in monumental mood	E
the broad waste of his spirit stonily	F
strewn with the wreck of his eternity	E
	-
The plumes of night unfurl'd	E
and eyed with fire are whirl'd	E
slowly above this watch funereal	F
the vast is wide and yet	E
no way lies open set	E
no bar but the flat deep rises a placid wall	F
Some throne thou think'st to win	G
or pride of thy far kin	G
this incomplete and dusty hour to achieve	H
know that the hour is one	I
eternally begun	I
eternally deferr'd thy grasp a Danaid sieve	J
O weary realm O height	E
the which exhausted flight	E
familiar finds home of its prompting ill	F
here there or there or there	K
even the same despair	K
rest in thy place O fool the heart eludes thee still	F
Rest and a new abyss	L
suddenly yawns of this	L
the moment sole and yet the counterpart	E
and thou must house it thou	M
within thy fleshy Now	M
thyself the abyss that shrinks the unbounded hermit heart	E
the mightier heart untold	E
whose paining depths enfold	E
all loneliness all height all vision'd shores	N
and the abyss uncrown'd	E
blank failure thro' each bound	E
from the consummate point thy broken hope implores	N
	-
The trees that thro' the tuneful morn had made	E
bride dusk for beams that pierce the melting shade	E
or thro' the opulent afternoon had stood	E
lordly absorb'd in hieratic mood	E
now stricken with misgiving of the night	E
rise black and ominous as who invite	E
some fearful coming whose foreblown wind shall bow	M
convuls'd and shuddering each dishevell'd brow	M
the garden that had sparkled thro' its sheen	O
all day a self sufficing gem serene	O
hiding in emerald depths the vision'd white	E
of limbs that follow their own clear delight	E
exhales towards the inaccessible skies	P
commencing failing broken scents or sighs	P
	-
O mother only	F
where that thou hidest thee	F
crown for the lonely brow	M
bosom for the spent wanderer	Q
or balm for ache	R
O mother	Q
nightly	F
undiscoverable	F
O heart too vast to find	E
whelming our little desire	Q
we wander and fail	F
But on the zenith mass'd a glittering throng	S
the distant stars dropt a disdainful song	S
	-
They said because their parcel thought	E
might nor her shadowy vast embrace	B
nor be refurl'd within that nought	E
which is the hid heart of all place	B
they said She is not anywhere	K
have we not sought her and not seen	O
nor is there found in earth or air	K
a sign to tell if she hath been	G
O fools and blind not to have found	E
is her desire not as your own	T
stirs she not in the arms that round	E
a hopeless clasp lone with the lone	T
And the tense lips towards her bliss	L
in secret cells of anguish'd prayer	K
might know her in the broken kiss	L
she prompts nor prompting fails to share	K
We drift from age to age nor waste	E
our strenuous song's exultant tone	T
disdaining or to rest or haste	E
because each place is still our throne	T
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The anguish'd doubt broods over Eden night	E
hangs her rent banners thro' the viewless height	E
trophies and glories whence a trouble streams	U
of lamentable valour in old dreams	U
out of its blank the watcher's soul is stirr'd	E
to take unto itself some olden word	E
	-
O thou that achest pulse o' the unwed vast	E
now in the distant centre of my brain	V
dizzily narrow'd now beyond the last	E
calm circle widening of the starry plain	V
where on the scatter'd edge of my surmise	P
the twilit dreams fail off and rule is spent	E
vainly on vagrant bands the gulfs invite	E
to break away to the dark they backward sent	E
tho' dumb with dire infection in their eyes	P
startle the central seat O pulse of night	E
passing the hard throb of sun smitten blood	E
when the noon world is fused in fire and blent	E
with my then unattained hero mood	E
what will with me the imperious instinct	E
that hounds the gulfs together on that place	B
vanishing utterly out of mortal trace	B
the citadel where I would seem distinct	E
if not thou ween'st a vanity my deep	W
unlighted still the which thy refluent sweep	W
intolerably dilates a tide that draws	X
with lunatic desire distraught and fond	E
to some dark moon of vastness hung beyond	E
our little limits of familiar cause	Y
as tho' the tense and tortured voids should dash	Z
ruining amorously together a clash	Z
portentous with some rose of thinnest flame	A2
secret exhaled in the annull'd abyss	L
that with this soul passes in that fell kiss	L
and to the soft sprung flush all sanctity	E
surrenders centring in the blossom'd Name	A2
as the dark wings of silence lovingly	E
hover above the adventurous song that fares	B2
forth to the void and finds no lip that shares	B2
its rapture just the great wings spreading wide	E
	-
O mother thou or sister or my bride	E
inevitable whom this hour in me declares	B2
were thine of old such rhythmic pangs that bore	C2
my shivering soul wind waif upon the shore	C2
that is a wavering twilight thence astray	D2
beneath the empty plainness of the day	D2
me thy first want conceived to some dim end	E
that my unwelcom'd love might henceward tend	E
to the dumb home that draws it in thy breast	E
and the veil'd couch of some divine incest	E
where thou didst wait some hour of sharp delight	E
to wither up in splendour the stark night	E
and haggard shame that ceremented thy dearth	E2
with purest diamond blaze some overbirth	E2
of the dark fire thy foresight did enmesh	F2
within this hither and thither harried flesh	F2
Ay yet obscurely stirs a monstrous worm	G2
in the rear cavern of my dazzled thought	E
a memory that wavers formless form	H2
of superhuman nuptials clasp'd and caught	E
unto the breast that is our loathed tomb	I2
then issuing from the violated womb	I2
tremendous birth of dreadful prodigies	J2
begotten on the apocalyptic skies	P
one moment's hope one thrill alone was given	I
of pinions beating up the parting heaven	I
but straight thereon the spectral mirk was riven	I
by shapes of snaky horror grisly jaw	K2
cold fear and scaly fold and endless maw	K2
What terror clutch'd me even as ecstasy	E
smote dire across transfigured mystery	E
and whose the sin that doom'd thee to disgrace	B
to haunt the shapeless dark a burning face	B
	-
eyes that would cling to mine and lips that seek	L2
some baffled kiss some word they may not speak	L2
condemn'd to yearn where the worn foam is hoar	C2
and vain against the unshaken nightly shore	C2
Nightly thy tempting comes when the dark breeze	J2
scatters my thought among the unquiet trees	J2
and sweeps it with dead leaves o'er widow'd lands	M2
and kingdoms conquer'd by no human hands	M2
nightly thou wouldst exalt me in the deep	W
crown'd with the morn that shines beyond our sleep	W
nightly renew those nuptials and re win	G
virginity and shed the doubtful sin	G
but I am born into dividual life	N2
and I have ta'en the woman for my wife	N2
a flowery pasture fenced and soft with streams	U
fill'd with slow ease and fresh with eastern beams	U
of coolest silver on the sliding wave	O2
such refuge the derisive morning gave	O2
shaped featly in thy similitude to attract	E
earthward the gusty soul thy temptings rack'd	E
I sicken with the long unsatisfied	E
waiting the sombre gulfs of night divide	E
no dawn is shown that keeps its grace nor soon	P2
degraded not to brutal fires of noon	P2
and heavy on my soul the tyrant lays	Q2
his hand and dazzles with his common blaze	Q2
eyes that are fain when evening brings the dew	E
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