And the Red Death enveloped the gelid
City, the blood-red tide that drowned upon
The main. The crimson haze that squelched
The ancient heart, the inimitable mind that
Stanched its wounds on the azure gloaming;
Sin kissed the lamb that would be led unto
The catacombs, harrowing shallows, wolds
Dissolving, windswept sighs. Thereon the
Monolith sank its maws into the wraith filled
Land, the primordial causeway, a lifeless form
Abandoned in the rain. And the plague built
A wall to separate light from darkness, and
Madness and bloodlust reigned over all the
Earth; and the staggering colossus was filled
With unearthly quiet, for kindness and reason
And love had gone out, whereon man devoured
Man, and all who were touched by the deathly
Shadow met their fate on the shores incarnadine