Darkness Essay Research Paper Darkness first published
Darkness Essay, Research Paper
Darkness, foremost published in 1816
I had a dream, which was non all a dream.
The bright Sun was extinguish & # 8217 ; vitamin D, and the stars
Did roll darkling in the ageless infinite,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy Earth
Swung blind and darkening in the moonless air ;
Morn came and went & # 8211 ; and came, and brought no twenty-four hours,
And work forces forgot their passions in the apprehension
Of this their devastation ; and all Black Marias
Were chill & # 8217 ; d into a selfish supplication for visible radiation:
And they did populate by watchfires & # 8211 ; and the thrones,
The castles of crowned male monarchs & # 8211 ; the huts,
The habitations of all things which dwell,
Were burnt for beacons ; metropoliss were consum & # 8217 ; vitamin D,
And work forces were gather & # 8217 ; d round their blaze places
To look one time more into each other & # 8217 ; s face ;
Happy were those who dwelt within the oculus
Of the vent, and their mountain-torch:
A fearful hope was all the universe contain & # 8217 ; vitamin D ;
Forests were set on fire & # 8211 ; but hr by hr
They fell and faded & # 8211 ; and the greaves short pantss
Extinguish & # 8217 ; vitamin D with a clang & # 8211 ; and all was black.
The foreheads of work forces by the despairing visible radiation
Wore an spiritual facet, as by tantrums
The flashes fell upon them ; some lay down
And conceal their eyes and wept ; and some did rest
Their mentums upon their clinched custodies, and smil & # 8217 ; vitamin D ;
And others hurried to and fro, and fed
Their funeral hemorrhoids with fuel, and look & # 8217 ; d up
With huffy edginess on the dull sky,
The chill of a past universe ; and so once more
With expletives cast them down upon the dust,
And gnash & # 8217 ; d their dentitions and ululation & # 8217 ; vitamin D: the wild birds shriek & # 8217 ; vitamin D
And, terrified, did waver on the land,
And roll their useless wings ; the wildest beasts
Came tame and quavering ; and vipers crawl & # 8217 ; vitamin D
And duplicate & # 8217 ; d themselves among the battalion,
Hissing, but stingless & # 8211 ; they were slain for nutrient.
And War, which for a minute was no more,
Did gorge himself once more: a repast was bought
With blood, and each sate dourly apart
Gorging himself in somberness: no love was left ;
All Earth was but one idea & # 8211 ; and that was decease
Immediate and black ; and the stab
Of dearth fed upon all visceras & # 8211 ; work forces
Died, and their castanetss were tombless as their flesh ;
The meagre by the meagre were devour & # 8217 ; vitamin D,
Even Canis familiariss assail & # 8217 ; d their Masterss, all save one,
And he was faithful to a Corse, and kept
The birds and animals and famish & # 8217 ; d work forces at bay,
Till hungriness clung them, or the dropping dead
Lur & # 8217 ; d their lank jaws ; himself sought out no nutrient,
But with a hapless and ageless groan,
And a speedy desolate call, creaming the manus
Which answer & # 8217 ; d non with a caress & # 8211 ; he died.
The crowd was famish & # 8217 ; d by grades ; but two
Of an tremendous metropolis did survive,
And they were enemies: they met beside
The deceasing coals of an altar-place
Where had been heap & # 8217 ; d a mass of holy things
For an unhallowed use ; they rak & # 8217 ; d up,
And shuddering bit & # 8217 ; vitamin D with their cold skeleton custodies
The lame ashes, and their lame breath
Blew for a small life, and made a fire
Which was a jeer ; so they lifted up
Their eyes as it grew lighter, and beheld
Each other & # 8217 ; s aspects & # 8211 ; saw, and scream & # 8217 ; vitamin D, and died & # 8211 ;
Even of their common hideousness they died,
Unknowing who he was upon whose forehead
Famine had written Fiend. The universe was null,
The thickly settled and the powerful was a ball,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless & # 8211 ;
A ball of decease & # 8211 ; a pandemonium of difficult clay.
The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still,
And nil stirr & # 8217 ; d within their soundless deepnesss ;
Ships sailorless lay decomposing on the sea,
And their masts fell down little by little: as they dropp & # 8217 ; vitamin D
They slept on the abysm without a rush & # 8211 ;
The moving ridges were dead ; the tides were in their grave,
The Moon, their kept woman, had expir & # 8217 ; vitamin D before ;
The air currents were wither & # 8217 ; vitamin D in the dead air,
And the clouds perish & # 8217 ; vitamin D ; Darkness had no demand
Of assistance from them & # 8211 ; She was the Universe.
