Unknown Author

Not a sea of flame

Whose waves and deeps

Shall gulf the sun’s and worlds

But as a night, a darkness, and a silence

Past all light

Beyond all sound,

Oblivion waits and sleeps

Within its absolute encircling sweeps,

The universe

A stream of stars that sight deems countless

But upon whose gleaming flight like some eternal tide,

Oblivion creeps

A darkness and a silence,

There shall draw to one eclipse

The systems,

And disperse this strange and troubled dream

Of time and place

Then sun nor world shall be, nor light, nor law,

But endless night and emptiness of space

A vast nirvana of the universe