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Suffer Yourself
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Darkness, Part 2
Lord Byron
And War, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself again; a meal was bought
With blood, and each sate sullenly apart Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left;
All earth was but one thought and that was death, Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
Of famine fed upon all entrails men Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
The meagre by the meagre were devoured, Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,
And he was faithful to a corpse, and kept The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay,
Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead Lured their lank jaws; himself sought out no food, But with a piteous and perpetual moan And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand Which answered not with a caress, he died.
The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies; They met beside The dying embers of an altar-place Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things For an unholy usage; they raked up,
And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath Blew for a little life, and made a flame Wich was a mockery; then they lifted up Their eyes as it grew lighter, and
Each other's aspects. saw, and shriek'd, and died, beheld Even of their mutual hideousness they died, Unknowing who he was upon whose brow
Famine had written Fiend. The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean stood still, And nothing stirred within their silent depths; Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon their mistress had expired before; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them. She was the universe.
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