dawnless

The earth is Limbo, the penumbra of a dark and partial recollection; the shadow, vague and dawnless, over a vast stage from which the consequential pageant has gone, and is almost forgotten, the memory of many events merged now into formless night itself, and foundered profoundly beneath the glacial brilliance of a clear heaven alive with stars.

Old Junk 1915

Its beginnings are lost in the dawnless night of time -- of Time, who was Kronos, of

Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome 1881