Those gloomy meadows of the under world,

Where never sunlight was, nor grass, nor trees,

And the dim pathways from the Stygian shore,

Sombre and swart and barren, wandered o'er

By countless melancholy companies.

And farther still upon the utmost rim

Of the drear waste, whereto the roadways led,

She saw in piling outline, huge and dim,

The walled and towerèd dwellings of the dead

And the grim house of Hades. Then she broke