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In the midnight heavens burning
through ethereal deeps afar,
once I watched with restless yearning
an alluring, aureate star

Every eye aloft returning, gleaming nigh the arctic car
Mystic waves of beauty blended with the gorgeous golden rays

Phantasies of bliss descended in a myrrhed elysian haze
and in lyre-born chords extended

There (thought I) lies scenes of pleasure,
where the free and blessed dwell,
and each moment bears a treasure
freighted with a lotus-spell,
and there floats a liquid measure
from the lute of Israfel

There I told myself were shining worlds of happiness unknown

Peace and innocence entwining by the crowned

Virtue's throne men of light,
their thoughts refining
purer, fairer, than our own
Thus I mused, when o'er the vision
crept a red delirious change
hope dissolving to derision,
beauty to distortion strange
hymnic chords in weird collision

Crimson burned the star of sadness
as behind the beams I peered
all was woe that seemed but gladness
here my gaze with truth was seared

Cacodaemons, mired with madness, through the fevered flickering leered
Now I know the fiendish fable that the golden glitter bore
Now I shun the spangled sable that I watched and loved before
But the horror, set and stable, haunts my soul for evermore
Astrophobos

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