Dreamland

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1. By a route obscure and lonely,
2. Haunted by ill angels only,
3. Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
4. On a black throne reigns upright,
5. I have reached these lands but newly
6. From an ultimate dim Thule--
7. From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
8. Out of SPACE--out of TIME.
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10. Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
11. And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,
12. With forms that no man can discover
13. For the dews that drip all over;
14. Mountains toppling evermore
15. Into seas without a shore;
16. Seas that restlessly aspire,
17. Surging, unto skies of fire;
18. Lakes that endlessly outspread
19. Their lone waters--lone and dead,
20. Their still waters--still and chilly
21. With the snows of the lolling lily.
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23. By the lakes that thus outspread
24. Their lone waters, lone and dead,--
25. Their sad waters, sad and chilly
26. With the snows of the lolling lily,--
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28. By the mountains--near the river
29. Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,--
30. By the gray woods,--by the swamp
31. Where the toad and the newt encamp,--
32. By the dismal tarns and pools
33. Where dwell the Ghouls,--
34. By each spot the most unholy--
35. In each nook most melancholy,--
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37. There the traveller meets aghast
38. Sheeted Memories of the past--
39. Shrouded forms that start and sigh
40. As they pass the wanderer by--
41. White-robed forms of friends long given,
42. In agony, to the Earth--and Heaven.
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44. For the heart whose woes are legion
45. 'Tis a peaceful, soothing region--
46. For the spirit that walks in shadow
47. 'Tis--oh, 'tis an Eldorado!
48. But the traveller, travelling through it,
49. May not--dare not openly view it;
50. Never its mysteries are exposed
51. To the weak human eye unclosed;
52. So wills its King, who hath forbid
53. The uplifting of the fringed lid;
54. And thus the sad Soul that here passes
55. Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
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57. By a route obscure and lonely,
58. Haunted by ill angels only.
59.  
60. Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
61. On a black throne reigns upright,
62. I have wandered home but newly
63. From this ultimate dim Thule.
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