George Sterling - At the Grand Cañon lyrics

Thou settest splendours in my sight, O Lord! It seems as tho' a deep-hued sunset falls Forever on these Cyclopean walls - These battlements where Titan hosts have warred, And hewn the world with devastating sword, And shook with trumpets the eternal halls Where seraphim lay hid by bloody palls And only Hell and Silence were adored. Lo! the abyss wherein great Satan's wings Might gender tempests, and his dragons' breath Fume up in pestilence. Beneath the sun Or starry outposts on terrestrial things, Is no such testimony unto d**h Nor altars builded to Oblivion.