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34 Unsypheréd regions wrapped in light

That hide dank vapours of each tomb,

Lurk throaty imps throughout the year

Who sing their runes as lepers soom;

Red-embered gnomes within this night

Where scarlet dyes bathe Torture's womb! And Djinnee gasps add to the sight

That dragon-worms bred in this surge,

Build temples for queen Sorrow's home;

And pageantries of Typhon's bloom— Immarcescible sklayres of night!

And shadows bleak, that sins do purge—

A show for Satan on this throne!

Invoke the Cauldron's spraying gloom

To newer deeds of hell-lashed lust;

Tho' dusky wizards rake the skies

(Eternal hounds that all beguile)

Unstable dreams lure Fancy fane

Below this star's unfathomed dust,

Where shatter'd domes list to the sighs

Of skinless wenches on an isle,