One sense of bitter loss and beauty undone;

All else was blur and chaos and rain-steam

And noise and the confusion of a dream.

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Aha!... Earth hates a miserable man:

Against him even the clouds and winds conspire.

Heaven’s voice smote Dymer’s ear-drum as he ran,

Its red throat plagued the dark with corded fire

—Barbed flame, coiled flame that ran like living wire

Charged with disastrous current, left and right