Among the shadows where the starlight fails,

His body’s burning love. Forever flows

The dreadful drama to its stately close

And endless ending—the fierce carnival

Of death and passion, wherein each and all

Mix, and are mingled, slaughter, blend, and pass

Each into other—the high poem that has

No end and no beginning, that the one

Self in all living forms beneath the sun,

And on all worlds around him and above,