The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom; A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on winds of doom. In heaps the shining horsemen lie, where the thrusting lances break, And deep in the haunted mountains, the lost, black gods awake. Dead hands grope in the shadows, the stars turn pale with fright, For this is the Dragon's Hour, the triumph of Fear and Night. Robert E. Howard
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This quote from the poem "The Conqueror Worm" was written by the English poet Thomas Love Peacock. It is a description of a vision of hell, or a vision of the afterlife. In this vision, a great serpent called the "Conqueror worm" is climbing through chaos and consuming everything along the way. The dragon is red, because it symbolizes evil, and its red eyes are magical and terrifying, as it creates fear with its presence. The poem itself seems to be a warning that whatever one does in life will have consequences.

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