THE RETURN OF HYPERION


The dungeon-clefts of Tartarus

Are just beyond yon mountain-girdle,

Whose mass is bound around the bulk

Of the dark, unstirred, unmoving East.

Alike on the mountains and the plain,

The night is as some terrific dream,

That closes the soul in a crypt of dread

Apart from touch or sense of earth,

As in the space of Eternity.

What light unseen perturbs the darkness?

Behold! it stirs and fluctuates

Between the mountains and the stars

That are set as guards above the prison

Of the captive Titan-god. I know

That in the deeps beneath, Hyperion

Divides the pillared vault of dark,

And stands a space upon its ruin.

Then light is laid upon the peaks,

As the hand of one who climbs beyond;

And, lo! the Sun! The sentinel stars

Are dead with overpotent flame,

And in their place Hyperion stands.

The night is loosened from the land,

As a dream from the mind of the dreamer.

A great wind blows across the dawn,

Like the wind of the motion of the world.


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