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Imagination to thine occult sight	A
All things are crystal earth and sea and sky	B
The seen and the unseen but limpid light	A
Unvisioned stars shall not thy wings defy	B
For thee the Future hath no secrecy	C
Not with the senses dost thou share the chains	D
Of Time and Space's prison thou dost fly	B
At will the narrow bourne of their domains	D
For realms where never bruit of Time and Space attains	D
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All earth is empire of thy tireless quest	E
Thy wings achieve the cloud invested height	A
Or down the distant sunset flooded West	E
Thou vanishest in long unerring flight	A
That far outspeeds the swarthy plumes of Night	A
Thou findest rest a space on sunset sands	F
But soon a star with Westward sinking light	A
Doth speak of more remote untrodden strands	F
And forth thou farest toward those undiscovered lands	F
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No realm nor place is secret from thy gaze	G
The kingdoms of the bird and fish are thine	H
Thy pinions try the eagle's lucid ways	G
Then sink to search the foaming vasts of brine	H
Thou soar'st to meet the morning's lucent shine	H
Where Night and Day beneath thy feet are spread	I
In long insuperable battle line	H
Then in a breath thou front'st the sunset's red	I
Or seekest midnight's realm of mystery and dread	I
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The ocean yields its secrets unto thee	C
Far down beneath the agitated wave	J
Where winds stir not the anger of the sea	C
Thou plungest to some Nereid's emerald cave	J
Whose floors the varied shells of ocean pave	J
Here wealth of pearls and strange sea flowers is thine	H
But soon aweary grown thy soul doth crave	J
The noontide air and where the breakers shine	H
Thou soar'st to watch their furious cliff assailing line	H
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And then thou questest dusks obscure and strange	K
Perpetual twilights in some jungle's heart	L
Where darkness comes a scarcely noted change	K
Here trees inweave as if with conscious art	L
O'er pools that of the gloom appear a part	L
Nor know the silver kiss of star or moon	M
And birds strange plumaged unauthentic dart	L
Through shadows that affirm and then impugn	M
And leaves and flowers unfamiliar to the noon	M
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Now o'er a Winter land thou hoverest	L
Its sunlit snow to mark on transient wing	N
To trees in glittering icy armour dressed	L
Mild Southern winds bear bruit of coming Spring	N
And seek to rouse with amorous whispering	N
The white robed grass the clouds austere and grey	O
That late were earth's dark vaulted covering	N
In ranks disordered dim now flee away	O
And skies of azure threaten Winter's waning sway	O
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Thy pinions find a desert drear forlorn	P
Where purple Night fills all the fruitless land	L
Deepest a little ere the East of morn	P
Grows ominous Her all deleting hand	L
Seems promise that her reign awhile shall stand	L
When Day with baleful Cyclopean eye	B
Upleaps in flame and of his sway the sand	L
Grows ostent swift In gardens of the sky	B
At his fell breath the stars are withered utterly	C
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Of other worlds thy wings ambitious are	Q
O'er airless gulfs that yawn past reach of Day	O
Unfathomed voids of space 'twixt star and star Unhesitatingly thou dost essay	O
Some world exclusive from the sun's wide sway	O
Strange forms of life thine eyes thereon descry	Q
New unfamiliar that yet tread a way	O
Which dim and difficult like ours doth lie	B
Through dark and pain toward goals that gleam in unity	C
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The outer barriers of our system past	L
Thou stayst thy flight to mark in awe and dread	L
Some world that ruins down the darkling vast	L
Or suns and asteroids that hurtling red	L
To cataclysmic vortices are fed	L
And equallized in ruin Then in gloom	R
Of planets derelict long ages dead	L
That whirl where never suns nor stars illume	R
Thou 'light'st a space to muse upon their frozen doom	R
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Thy magic spells recall the Past to life	S
Before thine eyes the pageant of the years	T
Doth move with its reanimated strife	S
Its record of forgotten hopes and fears	T
Dead loves and hates and buried joys and tears	U
Long fallen to thy voice obedient	L
Arise and live again unto thine ears	T
Voices for ages still are eloquent	L
And thou beholdest forms long years in darkness pent	L
Once more the might of Rome and Babylon	V
Lies as a shadow over East and West	L
Again Greece sheds a glory as of dawn	W
Whose lambent splendour all the years attest	L
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Once more in empire's tidal quick unrest	L
Egypt and Tyre and Persia rise in state	L
And Alexander's world lust is addressed	L
Unto their humbling thrones and nations great	L
Again are raised or levelled as the Fates dictate	L
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'Mong peoples and through realms restored to light	L
At will thou wanderest Thou dost behold	L
Swart Egypt's gods enthroned in templed might	L
Along the Nile and 'fore thine eyes unfold	L
Their vanished pomps with glare of gems and gold	L
Thou look'st on Rome when at its utmost height	L
Her grandeur dazzled earth the wars of old	L
Upflame and rage anew within thy sight	L
With sanguine pageant of advance retreat and fight	L

Clark Ashton Smith

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