H. P. Lovecraft

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Part II. Fantasy and Horror

Nemesis

Written: 1st November 1917

First Published in The Vagrant, No. 7 (June 1918), Pages 41–43

 Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
 Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night,
 I have liv’d o’er my lives without number,
 I have sounded all things with my sight;
 And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak, being driven to madness with fright.
 I have whirl’d with the earth at the dawning,
 When the sky was a vaporous flame;
 I have seen the dark universe yawning,
 Where the black planets roll without aim;
 Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.
 I had drifted o’er seas without ending,
 Under sinister grey-clouded skies
 That the many-fork’d lightning is rending,
 That resound with hysterical cries;
 With the moans of invisible daemons that out of the green waters rise.
 I have plung’d like a deer thro’ the arches
 Of the hoary primoridal grove,
 Where the oaks feel the presence that marches
 And stalks on where no spirit dares rove;
 And I flee from a thing that surrounds me, and leers thro’ dead branches above.
 I have stumbled by cave-ridden mountains
 That rise barren and bleak from the plain,
 I have drunk of the fog-foetid fountains
 That ooze down to the marsh and the main;
 And in hot cursed tarns I have seen things I care not to gaze on again.
 I have scann’d the vast ivy-clad (...)
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