| «By a route obscure and lonely
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| Haunted by ill angels only
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| Where an Eidolon, named night
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| On a black throne reigns upright
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| I have reached this lands but newly
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| From an ultimate dim Thule
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| From a wild weired clime that lieth, sublime
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| Out of SPACE, out of TIME
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| By the dismal tarns and pools
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| Where dwell the Vampires
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| By each spot the most unholy
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| In each nook the most melancholy;
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| There the traveller meets aghast
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| Sheeted memories of the past
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| Shrouded forms that start and sigh
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| As they pass the wanderer by
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| By a route obscure and lonely
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| Haunted by ill angels only
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| Where an Eidolon, named night
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| On a black throne reigns upright
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| I have wandered home but newly
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| From this ultimate dim Thule."
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| «For the dead travel fast.» |