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I had a dream which was not all a dream	A
The bright sun was extinguished and the stars	B
Did wander darkling in the eternal space	C
Rayless and pathless and the icy Earth	D
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air	E
Morn came and went and came and brought no day	F
And men forgot their passions in the dread	G
Of this their desolation and all hearts	H
Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light	I
And they did live by watchfires and the thrones	H
The palaces of crown d kings the huts	H
The habitations of all things which dwell	J
Were burnt for beacons cities were consumed	K
And men were gathered round their blazing homes	H
To look once more into each other's face	H
Happy were those who dwelt within the eye	L
Of the volcanos and their mountain torch	M
A fearful hope was all the World contained	N
Forests were set on fire but hour by hour	O
They fell and faded and the crackling trunks	H
Extinguished with a crash and all was black	P
The brows of men by the despairing light	I
Wore an unearthly aspect as by fits	H
The flashes fell upon them some lay down	Q
And hid their eyes and wept and some did rest	R
Their chins upon their clench d hands and smiled	S
And others hurried to and fro and fed	G
Their funeral piles with fuel and looked up	T
With mad disquietude on the dull sky	L
The pall of a past World and then again	U
With curses cast them down upon the dust	V
And gnashed their teeth and howled the wild birds shrieked	W
And terrified did flutter on the ground	X
And flap their useless wings the wildest brutes	H
Came tame and tremulous and vipers crawled	Y
And twined themselves among the multitude	Z
Hissing but stingless they were slain for food	Z
And War which for a moment was no more	A2
Did glut himself again a meal was bought	B2
With blood and each sate sullenly apart	C2
Gorging himself in gloom no Love was left	D2
All earth was but one thought and that was Death	E2
Immediate and inglorious and the pang	F2
Of famine fed upon all entrails men	U
Died and their bones were tombless as their flesh	G2
The meagre by the meagre were devoured	H2
Even dogs assailed their masters all save one	I2
And he was faithful to a corse and kept	J2
The birds and beasts and famished men at bay	F
Till hunger clung them or the dropping dead	G
Lured their lank jaws himself sought out no food	Z
But with a piteous and perpetual moan	K2
And a quick desolate cry licking the hand	L2
Which answered not with a caress he died	M2
The crowd was famished by degrees but two	N2
Of an enormous city did survive	O2
And they were enemies they met beside	M2
The dying embers of an altar place	H
Where had been heaped a mass of holy things	H
For an unholy usage they raked up	T
And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands	H
The feeble ashes and their feeble breath	E2
Blew for a little life and made a flame	P2
Which was a mockery then they lifted up	T
Their eyes as it grew lighter and beheld	M2
Each other's aspects saw and shrieked and died	M2
Even of their mutual hideousness they died	M2
Unknowing who he was upon whose brow	Q2
Famine had written Fiend The World was void	M2
The populous and the powerful was a lump	R2
Seasonless herbless treeless manless lifeless	H
A lump of death a chaos of hard clay	F
The rivers lakes and ocean all stood still	S2
And nothing stirred within their silent depths	H
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea	H
And their masts fell down piecemeal as they dropped	M2
They slept on the abyss without a surge	T2
The waves were dead the tides were in their grave	U2
The Moon their mistress had expired before	A2
The winds were withered in the stagnant air	E
And the clouds perished Darkness had no need	M2
Of aid from them She was the Universe	H
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Diodati July	L
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First published Prisoner of Chillon etc	V2

George Gordon Byron

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