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Thou scarest me with dreams	A
JOB	B
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When Night's last hours like haunting spirits creep	C
With listening terrors round the couch of sleep	C
And Midnight brooding in its deepest dye	D
Seizes on Fear with dismal sympathy	E
I dreamed a dream something akin to fate	F
Which Superstition's blackest thoughts create	F
Something half natural to the grave that seems	A
Which Death's long trance of slumber haply dreams	A
A dream of staggering horrors and of dread	G
Whose shadows fled not when the vision fled	G
But clung to Memory with their gloomy view	H
Till Doubt and Fancy half believed it true	H
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That time was come or seem'd as it was come	I
When Death no longer makes the grave his home	J
When waking spirits leave their earthly rest	K
To mix for ever with the damn'd or blest	K
When years in drowsy thousands counted by	D
Are hung on minutes with their destiny	E
When Time in terror drops his draining glass	L
And all things mortal like to shadows pass	L
As 'neath approaching tempests sinks the sun	M
When Time shall leave Eternity begun	M
Life swoon'd in terror at that hour's dread birth	N
As in an ague shook the fearful Earth	N
And shuddering Nature seemed herself to shun	M
Whilst trembling Conscience felt the deed was done	M
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A gloomy sadness round the sky was cast	O
Where clouds seem'd hurrying with unusual haste	P
Winds urged them onward like to restless ships	Q
And light dim faded in its last eclipse	Q
And Agitation turn'd a straining eye	D
And Hope stood watching like a bird to fly	D
While suppliant Nature like a child in dread	G
Clung to her fading garments till she fled	G
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Then awful sights began to be reveal'd	R
Which Death's dark dungeons had so long conceal'd	R
Each grave its doomsday prisoner resign'd	S
Bursting in noises like a hollow wind	S
And spirits mingling with the living then	T
Thrill'd fearful voices with the cries of men	T
All flying furious grinning deep despair	U
Shaped dismal shadows on the troubled air	U
Red lightning shot its flashes as they came	V
And passing clouds seem'd kindling into flame	V
And strong and stronger came the sulphury smell	W
With demons following in the breath of hell	W
Laughing in mockery as the doom'd complain'd	X
Losing their pains in seeing others pain'd	X
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Fierce raged Destruction sweeping o'er the land	Y
And the last counted moment seem'd at hand	Y
As scales near equal hang in earnest eyes	Z
In doubtful balance which shall fall or rise	Z
So in the moment of that crushing blast	O
Eyes hearts and hopes paused trembling for the last	O
Loud burst the thunder's clap and yawning rents	A2
Gash'd the frail garments of the elements	B2
Then sudden whirlwinds wing'd with purple flame	V
And lightning's flash in stronger terrors came	V
Burning all life and Nature where they fell	W
And leaving earth as desolate as hell	W
The pleasant hues of woods and fields were past	O
And Nature's beauties had enjoyed their last	O
The colour'd flower the green of field and tree	E
What they had been for ever ceased to be	E
Clouds raining fire scorched up the hissing dews	C2
Grass shrivell'd brown in miserable hues	C2
Leaves fell to ashes in the air's hot breath	D2
And all awaited universal Death	D2
The sleepy birds scared from their mossy nest	K
Beat through the evil air in vain for rest	K
And many a one the withering shades among	E2
Wakened to perish o'er its brooded young	E2
The cattle startled with the sudden fright	F2
Sicken'd from food and madden'd into flight	F2
And steed and beast in plunging speed pursued	G2
The desperate struggle of the multitude	G2
The faithful dogs yet knew their owners' face	H2
And cringing follow'd with a fearful pace	H2
Joining the piteous yell with panting breath	D2
While blasting lightnings follow'd fast with death	D2
Then as Destruction stopt the vain retreat	I2
They dropp'd and dying lick'd their masters' feet	I2
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When sudden thunders paus'd loud went the shriek	J2
And groaning agonies too much to speak	J2
From hurrying mortals who with ceaseless fears	K2
Recall'd the errors of their vanish'd years	K2
Flying in all directions hope bereft	L2
Followed by dangers that would not be left	L2
Offering wild vows and begging loud for aid	M2
Where none was nigh to help them when they pray'd	M2
None stood to listen or to soothe a friend	N2
But all complained and sorrow had no end	N2
Sons from their fathers fathers sons did fly	D
The strongest fled and left the weak to die	D
Pity was dead none heeded for another	O2
Brother left brother and the frantic mother	O2
For fruitless safety hurried east and west	K
And dropp'd the babe to perish from her breast	K
All howling prayers that would be noticed never	O2
And craving mercy that was fled for ever	O2
While earth in motion like a troubled sea	E
Open'd in gulfs of dread immensity	K
Amid the wild confusions of despair	U
And buried deep the howling and the prayer	U
Of countless multitudes and closed and then	T
Open'd and swallow'd multitudes again	T
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Stars drunk with dread roll'd giddy from the heaven	M
And staggering worlds like wrecks in storms were driven	M
The pallid moon hung fluttering on the sight	K
As startled bird whose wings are stretch'd for flight	K
And o'er the East a fearful light begun	M
To show the sun rise not the morning sun	M
But one in wild confusion doom'd to rise	Z
And drop again in horror from the skies	Z
To heaven's midway it reel'd and changed to blood	K
Then dropp'd and light rushed after like a flood	K
The heaven's blue curtains rent and shrank away	P2
And heaven itself seem'd threaten'd with decay	P2
While hopeless distance with a boundless stretch	Q2
Flash'd on Despair the joy it could not reach	R2
A moment's mockery ere the last dim light	K
Vanish'd and left an everlasting Night	K
And with that light Hope fled and shriek'd farewell	W
And Hell in yawning echoes mock'd that yell	W
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Now Night resumed her uncreated vest	K
And Chaos came again but not its rest	K
The melting glooms that spread perpetual stains	S2
Kept whirling on in endless hurricanes	S2
And tearing noises like a troubled sea	E
Broke up that silence which no more would be	E
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The reeling earth sank loosen'd from its stay	P2
And Nature's wrecks all felt their last decay	P2
The yielding burning soil that fled my feet	K
I seem'd to feel and struggled to retreat	K
And 'midst the dread of horror's mad extreme	T2
I lost all notion that it was a dream	T2
Sinking I fell through depths that seem'd to be	E
As far from fathom as Eternity	E
While dismal faces on the darkness came	V
With wings of dragons and with fangs of flame	V
Writhing in agonies of wild despairs	U2
And giving tidings of a doom like theirs	U2
I felt all terrors of the damn'd and fell	W
With conscious horror that my doom was hell	W
And Memory mock'd me like a haunting ghost	K
With light and life and pleasures that were lost	K
As dreams turn night to day and day to night	K
So Memory flash'd her shadows of that light	K
That once bade morning suns in glory rise	Z
To bless green fields and trees and purple skies	Z
And waken'd life its pleasures to behold	K
That light flash'd on me like a story told	K
And days mis spent with friends and fellow men	T
And sins committed all were with me then	T
The boundless hell whose demons never tire	O2
Glimmer'd beneath me like a world on fire	O2
That soul of fire like to its souls entomb'd	K
Consuming on and ne'er to be consum'd	K
Seem'd nigh at hand where oft the sulphury damps	V2
O'er aw'd its light as glimmer dying lamps	V2
Spreading a horrid gloom from side to side	K
A twilight scene of terrors half descried	K
Sad boil'd the billows of that burning sea	E
And Fate's sad yellings dismal seem'd to be	E
Blue roll'd its waves with horrors uncontrolled	K
And its live wrecks of souls dash'd howlings as they roll'd	K
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Again I struggled and the spell was broke	W2
And 'midst the laugh of mocking ghosts I woke	W2
My eyes were open'd on an unhoped sight	K
The early morning and its welcome light	K
And as I ponder'd o'er the past profound	K
I heard the cock crow and I blest the sound	K

John Clare

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