{"id":113,"date":"2007-02-12T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/the-city-in-the-sea\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T14:54:08","slug":"the-city-in-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/the-city-in-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"The City In The Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><code>Lo ! Death has reared himself a throne<br \/>\nIn a strange city lying alone<br \/>\nFar down within the dim West,<br \/>\nWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best<br \/>\nHave gone to their eternal rest.<br \/>\nThere shrines and palaces and towers<br \/>\n(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)<br \/>\nResemble nothing that is ours.<br \/>\nAround, by lifting winds forgot,<br \/>\nResignedly beneath the sky<br \/>\nThe melancholy waters lie.<br \/>\n<\/code><code>No rays from the holy heaven come down<br \/>\nOn the long night-time of that town;<br \/>\nBut light from out the lurid sea<br \/>\nStreams up the turrets silently \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nGleams up the pinnacles far and free \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nUp domes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d up spires \u00e2\u20ac\u201d up kingly halls \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nUp fanes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d up Babylon-like walls \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nUp shadowy long-forgotten bowers<br \/>\nOf sculptured ivy and stone flowers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nUp many and many a marvellous shrine<br \/>\nWhose wreathed friezes intertwine<br \/>\nThe viol, the violet, and the vine.<br \/>\n<\/code><code>Resignedly beneath the sky<br \/>\nThe melancholy waters lie.<br \/>\nSo blend the turrets and shadows there<br \/>\nThat all seem pendulous in air,<br \/>\nWhile from a proud tower in the town<br \/>\nDeath looks gigantically down.<br \/>\n<\/code><code>There open fanes and gaping graves<br \/>\nYawn level with the luminous waves ;<br \/>\nBut not the riches there that lie<br \/>\nIn each idol's diamond eye \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nNot the gaily-jewelled dead<br \/>\nTempt the waters from their bed ;<br \/>\nFor no ripples curl, alas!<br \/>\nAlong that wilderness of glass \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nNo swellings tell that winds may be<br \/>\nUpon some far-off happier sea \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nNo heavings hint that winds have been<br \/>\nOn seas less hideously serene.<br \/>\n<\/code><code>But lo, a stir is in the air!<br \/>\nThe wave \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there is a movement there!<br \/>\nAs if the towers had thrown aside,<br \/>\nIn slightly sinking, the dull tide \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nAs if their tops had feebly given<br \/>\nA void within the filmy Heaven.<br \/>\nThe waves have now a redder glow \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nThe hours are breathing faint and low \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nAnd when, amid no earthly moans,<br \/>\nDown, down that town shall settle hence,<br \/>\nHell, rising from a thousand thrones,<br \/>\nShall do it reverence.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Allan_Poe\">Edgar Allan Poe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo ! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/the-city-in-the-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}