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  • Artist Info: Place of Birth: United States<br />
    Which State: Only telling friends<br />
    Name: Nathan, Ishy, or Neil<br />
    Status: Single<br />
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    Darkness - Lord Byron<br />
    I had a dream, which was not all a dream.<br />
    The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars <br />
    Did wander darkling in the eternal space, <br />
    Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth <br />
    Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;<br />
    Morn came, and went and came, and brought no day,<br />
    And men forgot their passions in the dread <br />
    Of this desolation; and all hearts <br />
    Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for light:<br />
    And they did live by watchfires - and the thrones,<br />
    The palaces of crowned kings, the huts, <br />
    The habitations of all things which dwell, <br />
    Were burnt for beacons; cities were consumed, <br />
    And men were gathered round their blazing homes <br />
    To look once more into each other's face; <br />
    Happy were those who dwelt within the eye <br />
    Of the volcanos, and their mountain-torch: <br />
    A fearful hope was all the world contain'd; <br />
    Forest were set on fire but hour by hour <br />
    They fell and faded and the crackling trunks <br />
    Extinguish'd with a crash and all was black. <br />
    The brows of men by the despairing light <br />
    Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits <br />
    The flashes fell upon them; some lay down <br />
    And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest<br />
    Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled;<br />
    And others hurried to and fro, and fed <br />
    Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up <br />
    With mad disquietude on the dull sky, <br />
    The pall of a past world; and then again <br />
    With curses cast them down upon the dust, <br />
    And gnash'd their teeth and howl'd: the wild birds shriek'd,<br />
    And, terrified, did flutter on the ground, <br />
    And flap their useless wings; the wildest brutes<br />
    Came tame and tremolous; and vipers crawl'd <br />
    And twined themselves among the multitude, <br />
    Hissing, but stingless, they were slain for food:<br />
    And War, which for a moment was no more, <br />
    Did glut himself again; a meal was bought <br />
    With blood, and each sate sullenly apart <br />
    Gorging himself in gloom: no love was left; <br />
    All earth was but one thought and that was death,<br />
    Immediate and inglorious; and the pang <br />
    Of famine fed upon all entrails men <br />
    Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;<br />
    The meagre by the meagre were devoured, <br />
    Even dogs assail'd their masters, all save one,<br />
    And he was faithful to a corpse, and kept <br />
    The birds and beasts and famish'd men at bay, <br />
    Till hunger clung them, or the dropping dead <br />
    Lured their lank jaws; himself sought out no food,<br />
    But with a piteous and perpetual moan <br />
    And a quick desolate cry, licking the hand <br />
    Which answered not with a caress, he died. <br />
    The crowd was famish'd by degrees; but two <br />
    Of an enormous city did survive, And they were enemies; <br />
    They met beside <br />
    The dying embers of an altar-place<br />
    Where had been heap'd a mass of holy things <br />
    For an unholy usage; they raked up, <br />
    And shivering scraped with their cold skeleton hands <br />
    The feeble ashes, and their feeble breath <br />
    Blew for a little life, and made a flame<br />
    Wich was a mockery; then they lifted up <br />
    Their eyes as it grew lighter, and <br />
    Each other's aspects. saw, and shriek'd, and died, beheld <br />
    Even of their mutual hideousness they died, <br />
    Unknowing who he was upon whose brow <br />
    Famine had written Fiend. The world was void,<br />
    The populous and the powerful was a lump, <br />
    Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless, <br />
    A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay. <br />
    The rivers, lakes, and ocean stood still, <br />
    And nothing stirred within their silent depths; <br />
    Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea, <br />
    And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd <br />
    They slept on the abyss without a surge <br />
    The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,<br />
    The moon their mistress had expired before; <br />
    The winds were withered in the stagnant air, <br />
    And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need <br />
    Of aid from them. She was the universe.
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