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Excerpt from Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions Two Visions Two visions came to me. At drear midnight, When first I laid my weary head adown, The chamber filled with chasms on my sight, And the wide darkness gathered in a frown; And I, who had dreamed wonders through the long Sweet daylight of that last enduring crown Humanity, the subtle and the strong, Should wear as in fulfilment on his brow. Was haunted by the phantoms that belong To deepest living Hell. From high to low The sultry room was gradually filled As with vague matter, that began to flow Into some form, irresolutely willed, And palpitating while it gathered shape, Floated, then sank and groaned; rose, chattered and trilled; Broke in stark faces, mouths and eyes agape; Then shrank again and indolently slept; Then sprang with guttural noises of the ape; Then drifted, formless, out of sight and wept: True to no cause, yet swift in all deceit, When slumber almost held me, slowly crept About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.