In worlds without a sun, or at the heart

Of monstrous-eyed and panting flow’rs of flesh,

Or aeon-blooming amaranths of stone:

And they have ministered within the brains

Of sages and magicians, and have served

To swell the pulse of kings or conquerors,

And have been privy to the hearts of queens.

The Ghoul turns his back on the Seraph, and moves away singing.

THE SONG

O condor, keep thy mountain-ways,