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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. - Avg. rating:
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