1. ۱By a route obscure and lonely,
2. ۲Haunted by ill angels only,
3. ۳Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
4. ۴On a black throne reigns upright,
5. ۵I have reached these lands but newly
6. ۶From an ultimate dim Thule--
7. ۷From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
8. ۸ Out of SPACE--out of TIME.
9. ۹
10. ۱۰Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
11. ۱۱And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,
12. ۱۲With forms that no man can discover
13. ۱۳For the dews that drip all over;
14. ۱۴Mountains toppling evermore
15. ۱۵Into seas without a shore;
16. ۱۶Seas that restlessly aspire,
17. ۱۷Surging, unto skies of fire;
18. ۱۸Lakes that endlessly outspread
19. ۱۹Their lone waters--lone and dead,
20. ۲۰Their still waters--still and chilly
21. ۲۱With the snows of the lolling lily.
22. ۲۲
23. ۲۳By the lakes that thus outspread
24. ۲۴Their lone waters, lone and dead,--
25. ۲۵Their sad waters, sad and chilly
26. ۲۶With the snows of the lolling lily,--
27. ۲۷
28. ۲۸By the mountains--near the river
29. ۲۹Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,--
30. ۳۰By the gray woods,--by the swamp
31. ۳۱Where the toad and the newt encamp,--
32. ۳۲By the dismal tarns and pools
33. ۳۳ Where dwell the Ghouls,--
34. ۳۴By each spot the most unholy--
35. ۳۵In each nook most melancholy,--
36. ۳۶
37. ۳۷There the traveller meets aghast
38. ۳۸Sheeted Memories of the past--
39. ۳۹Shrouded forms that start and sigh
40. ۴۰As they pass the wanderer by--
41. ۴۱White-robed forms of friends long given,
42. ۴۲In agony, to the Earth--and Heaven.
43. ۴۳
44. ۴۴For the heart whose woes are legion
45. ۴۵'Tis a peaceful, soothing region--
46. ۴۶For the spirit that walks in shadow
47. ۴۷'Tis--oh, 'tis an Eldorado!
48. ۴۸But the traveller, travelling through it,
49. ۴۹May not--dare not openly view it;
50. ۵۰Never its mysteries are exposed
51. ۵۱To the weak human eye unclosed;
52. ۵۲So wills its King, who hath forbid
53. ۵۳The uplifting of the fringed lid;
54. ۵۴And thus the sad Soul that here passes
55. ۵۵Beholds it but through darkened glasses.
56. ۵۶
57. ۵۷By a route obscure and lonely,
58. ۵۸Haunted by ill angels only.
59. ۵۹
60. ۶۰Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
61. ۶۱On a black throne reigns upright,
62. ۶۲I have wandered home but newly
63. ۶۳From this ultimate dim Thule.