Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Story of Doom: And Other Poems
Poems.
The Dreams That Came True.
I Saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere
The world, her fixed foredoomed oval tracing,
Rolling and rolling on and resting never,
While like a phantom fell, behind her pacing
The unfurled flag of night, her shadow drear
Fled as she fled and hung to her forever.
Great Heaven! methought, how strange a doom to share.
Would I may never bear
Inevitable darkness after me
(Darkness endowed with drawings strong,
And shadowy hands that cling unendingly),
God save you, gentlefolks. There was a man
Who lay awake at midnight on his bed,
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