In Habbanan beneath the skies
Where all roads end however long
There is a sound of faint echoes

And distant echoes of a song,
For there men gather into rings
Round their red fires while one voice sings -

And all about is night

Not night as ours, unhappy folk,

Where nigh the Earth in hazy bars,
A mist about the springing of the stars,
There trails a thin and wandering smoke

Obscuring with its veil half-seen
The great abysmal still Serene.


A globe of dark glass faceted with light
Wherein the splendid winds have dusky flight;
Untrodden spaces of an odorous plain

That watches for the moon that long has lain
And caught the meteors' fiery rain -
Such there is night.


…and caught the meteors' fiery rain
If I am dead and gone, would you remain