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Rh In ev'ry zone, each distant lee,

Holds ghastly sights of burning sand.

The headlands that we reach by day,

About whose shore the dragons roam;

And mildewed vaults of gatheréd bone,

Where eyeless skulls and ape-shanks lie

As moaning winds reel to and sway

From gorey pools and tower'd dome,

A goggling wraith and shambling gnome

Doth forage for each fleeing sigh.

Now Sorrow that the Dooms crown'd King,

Flees from the mouth of pools inflame,

Whilst Lords in robes of scarlet hue,

Add to the damn'd, malignant show;

Pellicles that all eyes did sting

In Vengeance's law that none could tame,

Flees whence two lights of dreaming blue

Cleave dome-thrown shadows dress'd in woe.

A Thaumaturgist, cursed and damn'd,