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The Sundial is a 1958 novel by American writer Shirley Jackson. more »

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Dream-Land
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
By a route obscure and lonely 
Haunted by ill angels only
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT
On a black throne reigns upright
I have reached these lands but newly   
From an ultimate dim Thule
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime
Out of SPACE-Out of TIME

Bottomless vales and boundless floods
And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods
With forms that no man can discover   
For the tears that drip all over
Mountains toppling evermore  
Into seas without a shore
Seas that restlessly aspire 
Surging, unto skies of fire 
Lakes that endlessly outspread   
Their lone waters-lone and dead  
Their still waters-still and chilly   
With the snows of the lolling lily

By the lakes that thus outspread 
Their lone waters, lone and dead
Their sad waters, sad and chilly 
With the snows of the lolling lily
By the mountains-near the river   
Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever
By the grey woods,-by the swamp   
Where the toad and the newt encamp
By the dismal tarns and pools 
Where dwell the Ghouls
By each spot the most unholy
In each nook most melancholy
There the traveller meets, aghast
Sheeted Memories of the Past
Shrouded forms that start and sigh   
As they pass the wanderer by
White-robed forms of friends long given
In agony, to the Earth-and Heaven

For the heart whose woes are legion   
'T is a peaceful, soothing region
For the spirit that walks in shadow   
'T is-oh, 't is an Eldorado! 
But the traveller, travelling through it 
May not-dare not openly view it
Never its mysteries are exposed   
To the weak human eye unclosed 
So wills its King, who hath forbid   
The uplifting of the fring'd lid
And thus the sad Soul that here passes   
Beholds it but through darkened glasses

By a route obscure and lonely
Haunted by ill angels only
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT
On a black throne reigns upright
I have wandered home but newly   
From this ultimate dim Thule

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