<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373675" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Conqueror Worm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! 'tis a gala night<br> Within the lonesome latter years!<br> An angel throng, bewinged, bedight<br> In veils, and drowned in tears,<br> Sit in a theatre, to see<br> A play of hopes and fears,<br> While the orchestra breathes fitfully<br> The music of the spheres.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Mimes, in the form of God on high,<br> Mutter and mumble low,<br> And hither and thither fly-<br> Mere puppets they, who come and go<br> At bidding of vast formless things<br> That shift the scenery to and fro,<br> Flapping from out their Condor wings<br> Invisible Woe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> That motley drama- oh, be sure<br> It shall not be forgot!<br> With its Phantom chased for evermore,<br> By a crowd that seize it not,<br> Through a circle that ever returneth in<br> To the self-same spot,<br> And much of Madness, and more of Sin,<br> And Horror the soul of the plot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But see, amid the mimic rout<br> A crawling shape intrude!<br> A blood-red thing that writhes from out<br> The scenic solitude!<br> It writhes!- it writhes!- with mortal pangs<br> The mimes become its food,<br> And seraphs sob at vermin fangs<br> In human gore imbued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Out- out are the lights- out all!<br> And, over each quivering form,<br> The curtain, a funeral pall,<br> Comes down with the rush of a storm,<br> While the angels, all pallid and wan,<br> Uprising, unveiling, affirm<br> That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'<br> And its hero the Conqueror Worm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Allan+Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373675" data-title="The Conqueror Worm de Edgar Allan Poe" data-description="Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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