he vault that oft hath flung its black he tomb from out whose sounding door SILENCE. are some qualities-some incorporate things, t have a double life, which thus is made e of that twin entity which springs m matter and light, evinced in solid and shade. is a two-fold Silence-sea and shore→→→ y and soul. One dwells in lonely places, vly with grass o'ergrown some solemn graces. human memories and tearful lore, er him terrorless: his name's “No More,” the corporate Silence, dread him not! power hath he of evil in himself, hould some urgent fate (untimely lot') ng thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf, haunteth the lone regions where hath trod ot of man,) commend thyself to God! A DREAM WIT A DREAM WIT TAKE this kiss u And, in parting Thus much let n You are not wro That my days h Yet if hope has In a night, or in In a vision, or in Is it therefore th All that we see Is but a dream I stand amid th Of a surf-torme And I hold with Grains of the go How few! yet Through my fin While I weepO God! can In Them with a ti O God! can In One from the p Is all that we s But a dream w s black ack, s, rown, ling door e. Sin! chin. incorporate us is made prings n solid and nd shorenely places, Ome solemn lore, No More," him not! elf, ely lot') ameless ell e hath trod God! A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM. TAKE this kiss upon the brow! Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, DREAMLAND. y a route obscure and lonely, m a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE-Out of TIME. ottomless vales and boundless floods, nd chasms, and caves, and Titan woods With forms that no man can discover or the dews that drip all over; Countains toppling evermore to seas without a shore; eas that restlessly aspire, urging, unto skies of fire; akes that endlessly outspread heir ione waters-lone and dead,— heir still waters- still and chilly With the snows of the lolling ily. y the lakes that thus outspread heir one waters, lone and deadheir sad waters, sad and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily,— DREA By the mountains As they pass the For the heart wh 'Tis a peaceful, s For the spirit th "Tis-oh 'tis an E But the traveler, May not-dare n Never its myster To the weak hu So wills its King The uplifting of And thus the sa Beholds it but th By a route obscu Haunted by ill a Where an Eidol On a black thro I have wandered From this ultim By the mountains-near the river Where dwell the Ghouls By each spot the most unholy— For the heart whose woes are legion But the traveler, traveling through it, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, |