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Rh And Medeas in this vast plain,

Who blink at yon dysodile lamps,

Slap thenars and each bifurcous

As javels drink from scyphus' bright.

Blood-curdling monsters on a rope

That sate upon the damn'd one's camps

As hell-winds gleam most glorious—

Each Vandal's music day or night!

Vain! vain! Each isle of hidden Hope! Alas! Alas! Each olpe of Remorse!

Each vaulted soul and spiral thought,

Swirl in the throes of waters cold;

Where rivers with the venom crawls,

Croak bat-faced incubi till hoarse.

And succubi that Hecate taught,

Bedecked in byss and spangled gold,

Sing runes unto the dungeoned halls.

Then burning ghauts and crimsoned peaks,

Vomit each, green, abhorrent clouds; The Temple's drum sounds tomb and death

To those that came for unsung trust.