Within this world, the gloom withheld,


    A people from a hidden place,


    Came and went, as though compelled,


    by some god''s forsaken grace.


    Time marked them, but unobserved,


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    Like whirls of dust, they passed us by,


    cloud temples with their columns blown—


    they vanished into the blue sky,


    and died unmourned, lost and alone.