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Shadow Of Nightmare

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What hand is this, that unresisted grips          My spirit as with chains, and from the sound          And light of dreams, compels me to the bound         Where darkness waits with wide, expectant lips?         Albeit thereat my footing holds, nor slips,          The threats of that Omnipotence confound          All days and hours of gladness, girt around         With sense of near, unswervable eclipse.         So lies a land whose noon is plagued with whirr         Of bats, than their own shadows swarthier,          Whose flight is traced on roofs of white abodes,         Wherein from court to court, from room to room,         In hieroglyphics of abhorrent doom,          Is slowly trailed the slime of crawling toads.

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"What hand is this, that unresisted grips..."

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