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
