And fragile is thy tenure of this world
Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
("To Science")

George Sterling

Tags: science god religion atheism

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Where got she her sullen mouth
And where her swaying form?
Would she live on eggs and apples
When the blood of men is warm?
(“The Young Witch”)

George Sterling

Tags: horror supernatural blood witch

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Be sure that head and heart were laid
In wisdom down, content to die.
Be sure he faced the Starless Sky
Unduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.
(“The Passing of Bierce”)

George Sterling

Tags: death ambrose-bierce bierce

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Or sit they girt by laws unknown
Whereto the senses serve as bars –
With fire of unrecorded stars
That light a heaven not our own?
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

George Sterling

Tags: stars universe alien

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And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

George Sterling

Tags: death darkness apocalypse armageddon

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