She is the night: all horror is of her
heap'd shapeless, on the unclaimed chaotic marsh

All mystery, and all love, beyond our ken,
She woos us, mournful till we find her fair:
And gods and stars and songs and souls of men
Are the sparse jewels in her scatt'd hair

 

 

 

Lines from Christopher Brennan's The Forest of the Night: Lilith
Image: Edward R. Hughes Night
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