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It freezes. All across a soundless sky / The birds go home. The horrible dark's begun: / The frozen dark that hopes not for a sun; / The ultimate dark wherein our race shall die.
Death, with his evil finger to his lip, / Leers in at human windows, turning spy / To learn the country where his rule shall lie / When he achieves perpetual generalship.