Malediction

While the black perennial snows Piled about the pole of night Swell the fount whence Lethe flows; While the worm, apart from light, Eats the page where magians pored; While the kraken, blind and white, Guards the greening books abhorred Where the evil oghams rust— In accurst Atlantis stored; While beneath the seal of dust Dead mouths mutter not in sleep To betray oblivion's trust; While the dusky planets keep, Past the outlands of the sun, Circuits of a sunless deep, Never shall the spell be done And the curse be lifted never That shall find and leave you one With forgotten things for ever.