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Gaunt in gloom, / The pale stars their torches, / Enshrouded, wave.
Ghostfires from heaven's far verges faint illume, / Arches on soaring arches, / Night's sindark nave.
Seraphim, / The lost hosts awaken / To service till / In moonless gloom each lapses muted, dim, / Raised when she has and shaken / Her thurible.
And long and loud, / To night's nave upsoaring, / A starknell tolls / As the bleak insense surges, cloud on cloud, / Voidward from the adoring / Waste of souls.
Trieste, 1915.