“And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)”

Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

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American poet and playwright 1869–1926

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