Disconsolate the Specters Shift

DISCONSOLATE THE SPECTERS SHIFT

The incandescent flame of night

Gives tocsin to whate’er’s in flight

And weariness to dreams adrift.

Disconsolate the specters shift.

Translucent shades and myrmidons

Through halls of niter quake, withdrawn,

While daylight creatures vanish swift;

Disconsolate the specters shift.

What dwelt here once, ‘ere life was lost?

Silenced shadows know the cost;

Mirth and meadows once its gift—

Disconsolate the specters shift.

Cellars cloister brute remains;

Dust, the vacant rooms reclaims;

Weavers work with thorough thrift.

Disconsolate the specters shift.

In tighter bindles, pinched with frost,

Decay, the parasite, exhausts

The forms of what we once could lift;

Disconsolate the specters shift.

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