Dreamland

Bottomless vales and boundless floods

And chasms, and caves, and titan woods

With forms that no man can discover

For the tears that drip all over

Mountains toppling evermore

Into the seas without a shore

That aspire,, unto the skies of fire

By the lakes that thus outspread

Their lone waters, lone and dead

By the grey woods, - by the swamp

Where the toad and the newt encamp-

There the traveler meets aghast

Sheeted memories of the past-

Shrouded forms that start and sigh

As they pass the wanderer by-

By a route obscure and lonely

Haunted by ill angels only

Where an eidolon, named night

On a black throne reigns upright

I have reached these lands but newly

From an ultimate dim thule-

From a wild clime that lieth, sublime

Out of space- out of time

But the traveler, travelling through it

May not- dare not openly view it!

Never its mysteries are exposed

To the weak human eye unclosed

So wills its king, who hath forbid

The uplifting of the fringed lid

And thus the sad soul that here passes

Beholds it but through darkened glasses

By a route obscure and lonely

Haunted by ill angels only

Where an eidolon, named night

On a black throne reigns upright

I have reached these lands but newly

From an ultimate dim thule-

From a wild clime that lieth, sublime

Out of space out of time