No More

No More — no more! What vague, mysterious,
Inexplicable terrors in the sound!
What soul-disturbing secrecies abound
In those sad syllables! and what delirious,
Wild phantasies, what sorrowful and what serious
Mysteries lie hid in them! No More — No More!
Where is the silent and the solemn shore,
Wash'd by what soundless seas, where all imperious
He reigns? And over what his awful reign?
Who questions, maddens! what is veil'd in shade,
Let sleep in shadow. When No More was made,
Eternity felt his deity on the wane,
And Zeus rose shrieking, Saturn-like and hoar,
Before that dread Prometheus — No More!