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Rh As, into olpes she pours a tear:

And, musing at the clouds of gloom,

She wrinkles face and lifts her hands

To mutter words unto the night.

Whereon a ghoul-king hath writ Fear,

And changes gloom to purple bloom,

The shoals to opal-sanded strands

That reach, past wrecks to crystal light,

Where mossy vales with poppies bloom,

And hastes her flight from Terror's urn,

To onyx seas where agates glow,

And feats her eyes on woes of hell,

Upon the foam-dreams of king Doom,

Where monsters in red cauldrons burn,

'Mid shrieks that from their vitals flow

With airs that rasp each bone-strewn dell.

And sea-linkt skies of charnel black—

A savage dome! streaked scarlet red,

Where maids for demon lovers mourn;

And caskets spew a dusky foam

That quench the thirst of yon lone wrack