Nemesis - I Monster

[00:01.89]Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber
[00:04.73]Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night
[00:09.43]I have liv’d o’er my lives without number
[00:12.93]I have sounded all things with my sight;
[00:18.06]And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak
[00:22.35]Being driven to madness with fright
[00:26.79]I have whirl’d with the earth at the dawning
[00:30.99]When the sky was a vaporous flame;
[00:34.38]I have seen the dark universe yawning
[00:38.13]Where the black planets roll without aim;
[00:42.77]Where they roll in their horror unheeded
[00:46.01]Without knowledge or lustre or name
[00:49.75]
[00:51.96]I had drifted o’er seas without ending
[00:55.52]Under sinister grey-clouded skies
[00:58.61]That the many-fork’d lightning is rending
[01:02.71]That resound with hysterical cries;
[01:05.52]With the moans of invisible daemons
[01:08.88]That out of the green waters rise
[01:11.93]I have plung’d like a deer thro’ the arches
[01:16.33]Of the hoary primoridal grove
[01:19.17]Where the oaks feel the presence that marches
[01:22.29]And stalks on where no spirit dares rove;
[01:26.62]And I flee from a thing that surrounds me
[01:30.43]And leers thro’ dead branches above
[01:32.63]
[01:34.18]I have stumbled by cave-ridden mountains
[01:37.45]That rise barren and bleak from the plain
[01:41.45]I have drunk of the fog-foetid fountains
[01:45.15]That ooze down to the marsh and the main;
[01:49.10]And in hot cursed tarns I have seen things
[01:52.97]I care not to gaze on again
[01:57.32]I have scann’d the vast ivy-clad palace
[02:01.71]I have trod its untenanted hall
[02:05.27]Where the moon writhing up from the valleys
[02:08.01]Shews the tapestried things on the wall;
[02:11.55]Strange figures discordantly woven
[02:14.39]Which I cannot endure to recall
[02:18.23]I have peer’d from the casement in wonder
[02:21.87]At the mouldering meadows around
[02:24.67]At the many-roof’d village laid under
[02:26.90]The curse of a grave-girdled ground;
[02:29.84]And from rows of white urn-carven marble
[02:34.77]I listen intently for sound
[02:37.01]
[02:38.86]I have haunted the tombs of the ages
[02:43.74]I have flown on the pinions of fear
[02:46.83]Where the smoke-belching Erebus rages
[02:50.23]Where the jokulls loom snow-clad and drear:
[02:54.91]And in realms where the sun of the desert consumes
[03:00.49]What it never can cheer
[03:03.55]I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted
[03:08.74]The jewel-deck’d throne by the Nile;
[03:11.92]I was old in those epochs uncounted
[03:15.57]When I, and I only, was vile;
[03:19.96]And Man, yet untainted and happy
[03:24.34]Dwelt in bliss on the far Arctic isle