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Rh Malignly mute, he peers thro' haze;

Infernal pæons shake each Inn,

Blue lights 'twixt opals burn and bloom

In deep-hued haunts of Typhon's home.

In vain we seek an isle of peace

Beyond the pale of siffling Doom!

'Mid stillness vaster than the tomb,

Made equal with the ghouls who lurk

On battlements where witches ease

Their minds as rubic censers fume,

A Fiend bubbles in ruddy bloom

As turgid dyes the night-dwales shirk.

No sunsets crimson this stainéd sea,

No Ev'ntides her plume unfolds;

An opaque light that Silence wrought.

Careens thro' space in quest of toll.

Then demons storm each sea and lee,

Abhorrent sights each Cauldron holds,

Dim shapes flit to the distant ghaut

Where Doom sits poised—Each monster's goal!