Out in the midless void the daemon bore me,
Past the bright clusters of dimensioned s***e,
Till neither time nor matter stretched before me,
But only Chaos, without form or place.
Here the vast Lord of All in darkness muttered
Things he had dreamed but could not understand,
While near him shapeless bat-things flopped and fluttered
In idiot vortices that ray-streams fanned.
They danced insanely to the high, thing whining
Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw,
whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining
gives each frail cosmos its eternal law.
"I am His Messenger," the daemon said,
as in contempt he struck his Master's Head.
Past the bright clusters of dimensioned s***e,
Till neither time nor matter stretched before me,
But only Chaos, without form or place.
Here the vast Lord of All in darkness muttered
Things he had dreamed but could not understand,
While near him shapeless bat-things flopped and fluttered
In idiot vortices that ray-streams fanned.
They danced insanely to the high, thing whining
Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw,
whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining
gives each frail cosmos its eternal law.
"I am His Messenger," the daemon said,
as in contempt he struck his Master's Head.