Dialogue

One said: 'I have seen, from cliffs of doom, The seven hells flame up in flower Like a million upas trees that tower, Massing their realms of poisonous bloom. I have gone down where dragons writhe, Mating within the nadir slime; I have caressed in some mad clime The Gorgon's ringlets, long and lithe.' Another answered: 'I have known The undated hour of agony When sightless terror leers and crawls Out of mere soil and simple stone; When horror seeps from out four walls And trickles from the unclouded sky.'