By a route obscure and lonely

Haunted by ill angels only

Where an Eidolon name Night

On a black throne reigns upright

I have reached those lands but newly

From an ultimate dim Thule

From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime

Out of space, out of time



By the mountains, by the lakes, that thus outspread

The lone waters, lone

Lone waters, lone and dead

Lone and dead

The sad waters, sad and chilly

Murmuring ever

With the snows of the lolling lily

By the mountains near the river



With forms that no man can discover

For the tears that drip all over



By the grey woods, by the lakes, the new encamp

By the dismal tarns

By the dismal tarns and pools

Most unholy

There go the friends long given

To the Earth and Heaven

By a route so obscure and lonely

Haunted by ill angels only



With forms that no man can discover

For the tears that drip all over



Seas that restlessly aspire

Surging unto sides of fire, unto skies of fire



With forms that no man can discover

For the tears that drip all over