So he spake long ago;

How brave our love must grow,"

Wrote a week since.

Then news, from far away,

Came unto me this day,

Only these words to say,

Lo, he is dead."

"The Terror by Night: the Arrow by Day: the Pestilence walking in Darkness: the Destruction wasting at Noonday."

Thou Demon Fear, Assassin of Delight,

Who makest impotent Man's royal might,