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AMBERGRIS 
 
 
 
 
FROM THE FATAL FORCE 
 
Chorus 
 
Slow wheels of unbegotten hate 
And changeless circles of desire, 
Formless creations uncreate, 
Swift fountains of ungathered fire, 
The mist counterpoise of time, 
Dim winds of ocean and sublime 
Pyramids of forgotten foam 
Whirling, vague cones of shapeless sleep 
And infinite dreams, and stars that roam, 
And comets moving through the deep 
Unfathomable skies, 
Darker for moonlight, and the glow-worm eyes 
Of dusky women that were stars, 
And paler curves of the immutable bars 
That line the universe with light, 
Great eagle-flights of mystic moons 
That dip, while the dull midnight swoons 
About the skirts of Night : 
These bowed and shaped themselves and said : 
“ It shall be thus ! ” 
And the intolerable luminous 
Death that is god bent down his head 
And answered :  Thus, immutably, 
Above all days and deeds, shall be ! 
And the great Light that is above all gods 
Lifted his calm brow, spake, and all the seas, 
And all the air, and all the periods 
Of seasons and of stars gave ear, and these 
Vaults of the heaven heard 
The great white light that shaped its secrecies 
Into one holy terrible word, 
Higher than all words spoken ;  for he said :