The hollow truth carried on the wind Budding asphodels wilted upon the pyre of paradise Erst the rusted gates of Heaven Deleing corrupt realm deliverance salting The rivers of Eden, Ananta, contemner of dawn Stealing Levannah breaking Sol. Without brethren kith, treading the tide Of redemption thitherto A tear in the fabric of the universe Another drop in the ocean aflame So that that fire humanity could be set Broken vessels as like sunken ships Eclipsing their own elan; Fraying equilibrium averred officers of Hell No more angels standing yet ranked still In offices most high despairing Purities ruination conjunctively As with the same stride sought in Pitched battle- touchable caste Derelict of kin.