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82 The charnel vapours o'erwhelm.

In caverns where gyte jinnee lee—

Noctivagous lepers in the gloom—

Unhollowed regions wrapped in light

Where groans are drowned by revels coarse

(Seen by a gump throughout the year

Above the strife where horrors soom)

Lurk crafty gnomes who with the night

Rant oaths in voices cracked and hoarse:

Blood-thirsty jinn in essling caves,

Where rubic dyes tinge Torture's dome,

And vypers' whispers pierce the night

As ghouls—whose baneful eyes conspire

With the surge of hell's roaring waves—

Rear mounts of bone—Dame Sorrow's home!

As charnel scarn parades in light—

Unfathomed crafts rayed in wowed attire.

And dusky mists peer at the show,

Obtest the gloom to further deeds

Of haste, to Horror's added might;