My life to thine own likeness, and confound—

Depart, and curse more kindred things instead:

Triumphant, through what realms of elder doom

Where even the swart vans of Time are stunned,

Seek thou some fit, Cimmerian citadel,

And mighty cities, desolate, unsunned,

Whose walls of horrent and enormous gloom

Make sharp the horizon of the light of hell!


LAUS MORTIS