THE UNREMEMBERED REALM
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by Robert Nelson
Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe Which the sundry gods have slighted to complete: These azure ice-peaks thrive and wane in wild exult, And shift their freezing heights in tremulous tumult; The wan ice-forms are vanished creatures lost in time. Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe Which the sundry gods have slighted to complete: There the youthful moon is like a fount of living flame; The eldern sun moves in a clique of pallid, dying mist; Dark birds flow endlessly to turn the dawn to amethyst; When moon and sun and birds are gone the dead make fires In reeking, foul-swept skies above the great ice-spires, And view the cold-fraught land with last and mad proclaim.