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I had a dream. The habitable earth -- / Its continents and islands, all were bare / Of cities and of forests. Naught remained / Of its old aspect, and I only knew / (As men know things in dreams, unknowing how) / That this was earth and that all men were dead.
On every side I saw the barren land, / Even to the distant sky's inclosing blue, / Thick-pitted all with graves; and all the graves / Save one were open -- not as newly dug, / But rather as by some internal force / Riven for egress. Tombs of stone were split / And wide agape, and in their iron decay / The massive mausoleums stood in halves.