Beyond these mountains lay vistas of dread  Black sea of infinity herin they drift  Devolved as one atrophied architects  Cyclopean forms askew in the midst  (Of) seraphic decay, an unbeheld might  The arcane majesty a conqueror awaits    Captors of millennia cloaked in confusion  Cast ever out to the tides of time  Gathered in silent peripheral empires  (Of) dust choked oceans who sing their last  Vanquished voyagers of revelation  A brooding enigma yet still to pass    Sinistral gulfs yet may be crossed  To ophidian cowering citadels  Raptoral judgement upon all our sins  This placid island of ignorance