..."Darkness," which records the end of humankind, the moon gone, and the world on the point of dissolution: The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still And nothing...sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept upon the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead; the tides were in their...

...lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless — A lump of death — a chaos of hard clay. The rivers, lakes, and ocean all stood still, And...sea, And their masts fell down piecemeal; as they dropp'd They slept on the abyss without a surge — The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,...

...which was not all a dream" sounds almost like the work of a newspaper reporter writing up the details: "The rivers, lakes and ocean all stood still, And...depths, Ships sailorless, lay rotting on the sea." Macao was excepted, and that because the Portuguese colonists were presumed to be competent to protect...