THE UNREMEMBERED REALM

Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe

Which the sundry gods have slighted to complete:

These azure ice-peaks thrive and wane in wild exult,

And shift their freezing heights in tremulous tumult;

The wan ice-forms are vanished creatures lost in time.

Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe

Which the sundry gods have slighted to complete:

There the youthful moon is like a fount of living flame;

The eldern sun moves in a clique of pallid, dying mist;

Dark birds flow endlessly to turn the dawn to amethyst;

When moon and sun and birds are gone the dead make fires

In reeking, foul-swept skies above the great ice-spires,

And view the cold-fraught land with last and mad proclaim.