The Haunted Palace

from In The Days Of Whore by Zaratus

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“The Haunted Palace” ("The Haunted Palace" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe in the April 1839)

In the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace
Radiant palace reared its head.

In the monarch Thought’s dominion
It stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow;
(This all this was in the olden
Time long ago)

And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.
Wanderers in that happy valley
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute’s well-tunéd law

Round about a throne, where sitting
(Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, (flowing, flowing),
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of Echoes whose sweet duty
(Was) but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king

But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch’s high estate;
Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him, desolate!
And, round about his home, the glory
That blushed and bloomed
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.

And travellers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows, see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door,
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh but smile no more.

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from In The Days Of Whore, released November 14, 2020

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