City In The Sea

Lo Death has reared himself a throne
The shadow city lies alone
No rays from the heavens down
On the long night of town.

Light from out the lurid sea
Streams up silently
Up spires, up kingly halls
Like Babylon's walls.

There shrines, palaces and towers
Undisturbed, by lifting winds forgot
Resigned beneath the sky
The melancholic waters lie.

There open fanes and gaping graves
Yawn with luminous waves
Not the jewels that there lie
In each idol's diamond eye.

No swellings tell that winds may pass
On this plain of glass
No heavings hint, that winds have been
On seas deathly serene.

There shrines, palaces and towers
Undisturbed, by lifting winds forgot
Resigned beneath the sky
The melancholic waters lie.

The waves have now a redder glow
The hours are breathing faint and low
Down, down from underground
Hell, rising from a thousand thrones.