| OUT of the nothingness of sleep, | |
| The slow dreams of Eternity, | |
| There was a thunder on the deep: | |
| I came, because you called to me. | |
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| I broke the Night’s primeval bars, | 5 |
| I dared the old abysmal curse, | |
| And flashed through ranks of frightened stars | |
| Suddenly on the universe! | |
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| The eternal silences were broken; | |
| Hell became Heaven as I passed.— | 10 |
| What shall I give you as a token, | |
| A sign that we have met, at last? | |
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| I’ll break and forge the stars anew, | |
| Shatter the heavens with a song; | |
| Immortal in my love for you, | 15 |
| Because I love you, very strong. | |
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| Your mouth shall mock the old and wise, | |
| Your laugh shall fill the world with flame, | |
| I’ll write upon the shrinking skies | |
| The scarlet splendour of your name, | 20 |
| Till Heaven cracks, and Hell thereunder | |
| Dies in her ultimate mad fire, | |
| And darkness falls, with scornful thunder, | |
| On dreams of men and men’s desire. | |
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| Then only in the empty spaces, | 25 |
| Death, walking very silently, | |
| Shall fear the glory of our faces | |
| Through all the dark infinity. | |
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| So, clothed about with perfect love, | |
| The eternal end shall find us one, | 30 |
| Alone above the Night, above | |
| The dust of the dead gods, alone. | |
