Gaze, behold! - Under Veils opaque,
A bloodred River Streaming in its wake!
So eternal its delights that churn -
The delights of a Utopian Palace.
Radiant, forever beyond the eon's return,
Radiant the Golden-Stone Chalice!
Yield! Now yield to majestic form,
A plated jewel - of ages ever warm!
The King of ages! The undying gem
That wrought the right of the bliss
That brought to low the Silver Diadem
And defined the Golden-Stone Chalice!
Seek now - relish the withered charm,
One waning to the ravenous arm...
So pungent had become its greatest wards
And marked - held in Creak and Crevice
That rend - rends the highest of lords,
And exalts the Golden-Stone Chalice!
Mourn - lament the benign phantom,
A certain sublimity no sage may fathom...
So lucid - so internal in the grandest size,
And bane - bane of land and palace -
- Fore it was sought the form and guise,
The guise of the Golden-Stone Chalice...