Time lies cataleptic in my brain: Eternity alone reigns there. Infinite space has shrunken to a single point of fire, from whose heart radiate the trackless voids.
Life I have bosomed in a sigh. I will exhale with the dawn, step lightly to my zenith, death in-wrapt.
Publication History
The Shadow-Eater [1915/17 and 1923]
1923 Edition Text Changes
- brain: Eternity > brain: ⁋ Eternity
- fire, from > fire, ⁋ From
- dawn, step > dawn, ⁋ Step
- zenith, death > zenith, ⁋ Death