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Now were the Titans gathered round their king	A
In a waste region slipping toward the verge	B
Of drear extremities that clasp the world	C
A land half moulded by the hasty gods	D
Grotesque misfeatured blackly gnarled with stone	E
And left beneath the bright scorn of the stars	F
Or worn and marred from conflict with the deep	G
Conterminate of Chaos Here they stood	H
Old Saturn midmost like a central peak	I
Among the lesser mounts that guard its base	J
Defeat that gloamed within each countenance	K
Like the first tinge of death upon a sun	L
Gathering like some dusk vapor found them cold	M
Heavy of limb and halting as with weight	N
Of threatened worlds and trembling firmaments	K
A wind cried round them like a trumpet voice	K
Of phantom hosts hurried importunate	N
And intermittent with a tightening fear	O
Far off the sunset sprang and the hard clouds	K
Molten among the peaks seemd furnaces	K
In which to make the fetters of the world	N
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Seared by the lightning of the younger gods	K
They saw beyond the grim and crouching hills	K
Those levins thrust like spears into the heart	N
Of swollen clouds or cleaving the dark sky	P
Like swords colossal Then as the Titans watched	N
The night rose like a black enormous mist	N
Around them wherein naught was visible	Q
Save the sharp levin leaping in the north	R
And no sound came except of seas remote	N
That seemed like Chaos ravening past the verge	B
Of all the world fed with the crumbling coasts	K
Of Matter	S
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Till the moon discovering	A
that harsh swart wilderness of sand and stone	E
Tissued and twisted in chaotic weld	N
Lit with illusory fire each Titan's form	T
They sate in silence mute as stranded orbs	K
The wrack of Time upcast on ruinous coasts	K
And in the slow withdrawal of the tide	N
Unvexed awhile Small solace could they take	U
From that wan radiance glistering frostily	Q
Upon the desert seized in iron silence	K
Like a false triumph over contestless Fates	K
Or a mirage of life in wastes of death	V
Yet were they moved to speak and Saturn's voice	K
Seeming the soul of that tremendous land	N
Set free in sound startled the haughty stars	K
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'O Titans gods sustainers of the world	N
Is this the end Must Earth go down to Chaos	K
Lacking our strength beneath the unpractised sway	W
Of godlings vain precipitate with youth	X
Who think unrecking of disastrous chance	K
To bind their will as reins upon the sun	L
Or stand as columns to the ponderous heavens	K
Must we behold with eyes of impotence	K
That universal wrack even though it whelm	T
These our usurpers in impartial doom	T
Beneath the shards and fragments of the world	N
Were it not preferable to return	Y
And meeting them in fight unswervable	Q
Drag down the earth ourselves and these our foes	K
One sacrifice unto the gods of Chaos	K
Why should we stay and live the tragedy	N
Of power that survives its use '	-
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Now spake	U
Enceladus when that the echoings	K
Of Saturn's voice had fled remote and seemed	N
Dead thunders caught and flung from star to star	Z
'Wouldst hurl thy kingdom down the nightward gulf	A2
Like to a stone a curious child might cast	N
To test the fall of some dark precipice	K
Patience and caution should we take as mail	Q
Not rashness for a weapon too keen sword	N
That cuts the strain d knot of destiny	N
Never to be tied again Were it not best	N
To watch the slow procedure of the days	K
That we may grasp a time more opportune	B2
When desperation is not all our strength	C2
Nor the foe newly filled with victory	N
Then may we hope to conquer back thy realm	T
For thee not for the gods of nothingness '	-
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He ceased and after him no lesser god	N
Gave voice upon the shaken silences	K
None venturing to risk comparison	L
Inevitable then of eloquence	K
With his but like the ambiguity	N
Of signal stars and lesser overcast	N
And merged in one confusion by the moon	B2
Silence possessed that throng till Saturn rose	K
Around his form the light intensified	N
And strengthened with addition wild and strange	D2
Investing him as with a ghostly robe	E2
And gathering like a crown about his brow	F2
His sword whereon the shadows lay like rust	N
He took and dipping it within the moon	B2
Made clean its length of blade and from it cast	N
Swift flickerings at the stars And then his voice	K
Came like a torrent and from out his eyes	K
Streamed wilder power that mingled with the sound	N
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And his resurgent power in glance and word	N
Poured through the Titans' souls and was become	T
The fountains of their own and at his flame	T
Their fires relumined twice rebellious rose	K
Leaping against the stronghold of the stars	K
And now they came where sleep	G
Where red upon the forefront of the north	R
Arcturus was a beacon to the winds	K
And with the flickering winds that lightly struck	G2
The desert dust then sprang again in air	H2
They passed athwart the foreland of the north	R
Against their march they saw the shrunken waste	N
A rivelled region like a world grown old	N
Whose sterile breast knew not the lips of life	I2
In all its epoch or a world that was	K
The nurse of infant Death ere he became	T
Too large too strong for its restraining arms	K
And towered athwart the suns	K
	-
And there they crossed	N
Metallic slopes that rang like monstrous shields	K
Under their tread and dully clanging plains	K
Like body mail of greater vaster gods	K
Where hills made gibbous shadows in the moon	B2
They heard the eldritch laughters of the wind	N
Seeming the mirth of doom and 'neath their gaze	K
Gaunt valleys deepened like an old despair	H2
Yet strode they on through the moon's fantasies	K
Bold with resolve across a land like doubt	N
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And now they passed among huge mountain bulks	K
Themselves like ambulant mountains moving slow	Q
'Mid fettered brethren adding weight and gloom	T
To that mute conclave great against the stars	K
Emerging thence the Titans marched where still	Q
Their own portentous shadows went before	J2
Like night that fled but shrunk not dusking all	Q
That desert way	W
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And now they came where steep	G
The sleep of weary victory had seized	N
The younger gods as captives borne beyond	N
All flight of mounting battle ecstasies	K
In that deep triumph of forgetfulness	K
Upon that sleep the striding Titans broke	K2
Vague and immense at first like forming dreams	K
To those disturb d gods in mist of drowse	K
Purblind and doubtful yet though soon they knew	L2
Their erst defeated foes and rising stood	N
In silent ranks expectant that appeared	N
To move with shaking of astonished fires	K
That bristled forth deployed like awful plumes	K
Between the brightening desert and the sky	P
Then sudden as the waking from a dream	T
The battle sprang where striving deities	K
Moved brightly through the whirled and stricken air	H2
Sweeping it to a froth of fire and all	Q
That ancient deep established desert rocked	N
Shaken as by an onset of the gulfs	K
Of gathered and impatient Chaos while	Q
Above the place where central battle burned	N
The moon and stars drew back in dazzlement	N
Paling to more secluded distances	K
Lo where the moon's uncertain light had wrought	N
Disordered shadows and chimeras dim	T
Hiding the hideous desert with mirage	M2
Or deepening it with gulfs and glooms of hell	Q
Mightier confusion chaos absolute	N
Was grown the one thing sure in sky or world	N
Typhonian maelstrorns caught in fiery storms	K
Torn by the sweep of Olympian weaponries	K
Crescented blades that met with rounds of shields	K
Grappling of shapes seen through the riven blaze	K
An instant then once more obscure and known	E
Only by giant heavings of that war	J2
Of furious gods and rous d elements	K
Theses round one swollen center hung ensphered	N
Upon the blasted sand and molten rocks	K
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So huge that chaos complicate within	N2
With movements of gigantic legionry	J2
Where Jove and Saturn thunder crested led	N
In onset never stayed so strong the strife	I2
Of differing impulse that decision found	N
No foothold till that first confusion should	N
In ordered conflict re arrange and stand	N
With its true forces known This seemed remote	N
With that wide struggle pending terribly	N
As if the spectrumed wings of Time had made	N
A truce with white Eternity and both	O2
Stood watching from afar	J2
	-
Through drifts of haze	K
The broadening moon made ominous with red	N
Glared from the westering night And now that war	J2
Built for itself far up a cope of cloud	N
And drew it down far off upon all sides	K
Impervious to the moon and sworded stars	K
And by their own wild light the gods fought on	P2
'Neath that stupendous concave like a sky	P
Filled and illumined with glare of shattered suns	K
And cast by their own light upon that sky	P
The gods' own shadows moved like shapen gloom	T
Phantasmagoric changed and amplified	N
A shifting frieze that flickered dreadfully	N
In spectral battle indecisive Then	Q2
Swift as it had begun the contest turned	N
And on the heaving Titans' massive front	N
It seemed that all the motion and the strength	C2
Self thwarting and confounded of that strife	I2
Was flung in centered impact terrible	Q
with rush of all that fire tempestuous blown	E
As if before some wind of further space	K
Striking the earth Lo all the Titans' flame	T
Bent back upon themselves and they were hurled	N
In vaster disarray with vanguard piled	N
On rear and center Saturn could not stem	T
The loosened torrents of long pent defeat	N
He with his hosts was but as drift thereon	R2
Borne wildly down the whelmed and reeling world	N
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Hurling like slanted rain the violet levin	N2
Fell over that flight of Titans and behind	N
In striding menace all victorious Jove	I2
Loomed like some craggy cloud with thunders crowned	N
And footed with the winds In that defeat	N
With Jove's pursuit deepened and manifold	N
Few found escape unscathed and some went down	S2
Like senile suns that grapple with the dark	T2
And reel in flame tremendous and are still	Q
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Ebbing the battle left those elder gods	K
Thrown back on iron shores of their despair	J2
A darker and a vaster Tartarus	K
The victor gods their storms and thunders spent	N
Went dwindling northward like embattled clouds	K
And where the lingering haze of light dissolved	N
The pallor of the dawn began to spread	N
On darkness purple like the pain of death	V
Ringed with that desolation Saturn stood	N
Mute and the Titans answered unto him	T
With brother silence Motionless they appeared	N
Some peristyle of topless columns great	N
Alone enduring of a fallen fane	U2
In wastes of an immenser world whence Life	I2
And Faith have vanished whose enshadowed orb	V2
Verges oblivionward And Twilight slow	Q
Crept round those lofty shapes august and seemed	N
Such as might be the ghostly muffed noon	B2
Of mightier suns that totter down to death	V
	-
Then turned they passing from that dismal place	K
Blasted anew with battle ere the dawn	R2
Striding in flame athwart stupendous chasms	K
And wasteful plains should overtake them there	J2
Bowed with too heavy a burden of defeat	N
Slowly they turned and passed upon the west	N
Where like a weariness immovable	Q
In menace huge the plain its monstrous bulk	W2
The peaks its hydra heads the whole world crouched	N
Against their march with the diminished stars	K