[00:36.94]I had a dream, which was not all a dream.[00:44.05]The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars[00:49.95]Did wander darkling in the eternal space,[00:54.38]Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth[00:59.26]Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;[01:06.30]Morn came and went -and came, and brought no day,[01:14.20]And men forgot their passions in the dread[01:17.20]Of this their desolation; and all hearts[01:23.76]Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light;[01:29.51][02:35.85]The world was void,[02:40.70]The populous and the powerful was a lump,[02:46.99]Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless -[02:53.60]A lump of death -a chaos of hard clay.[02:59.30]The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still,[03:04.10]And nothing stirred within their silent depths;[03:07.50]Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,[03:10.85]And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropped[03:15.09]They slept on the abyss without a surge -[03:18.70]The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,[03:24.60]The moon, their mistress, had expired before;[03:28.90]The winds were withered in the stagnant air,[03:31.50]And the clouds perished! Darkness had no need[03:36.70]Of aid from them -She was the Universe![03:41.80][05:20.37]A fearful hope was all the world contained;[05:27.80]Forests were set on fire -but hour by hour[05:31.30]They fell and faded -and the crackling trunks[05:35.20]Extinguished with a crash -and all was black.[05:42.72]