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One tone is mute within the starry singing	A
The unison fulfilled complete before	B
One chord within the music sounds no more	B
And from the stir of flames forever winging	A
The pinions of our sister motionless	C
In pits of indefinable duress	D
Are fallen beyond all recovery	E
By exultation of the flying dance	F
Or rhythms holding as with sleep or trance	F
The maze of stars that only death may free	E
Flung through the void's expanse	F
	-
In gulfs depressed nor in the gulfs exalted	G
Shall shade nor lightening of her flame be found	H
In space that litten orbits gird around	H
Nor in the bottomless abyss unvaulted	H
Of unenvironed all outlying night	H
Allotted gyre nor lawless comet flight	H
Shall find and with its venturous ray return	I
From gloom of undiscoverable scope	J
One ray of her to gladden into hope	J
The doubtful eyes denied that truthward yearn	I
The faltering feet that grope	J
	-
Beyond restrainless boundary nights surpassing	A
All luminous horizons limited	H
The substance and the light of her have fed	H
Ruin and silence of the night's amassing	A
Abandoned worlds forever morningless	F
Suns without worlds in frory beamlessness	F
Girt for the longer gyre funereal	K
Inviolate silence earless unawaking	A
That once was found and level calm unbreaking	A
Where motion's many ways in oneness fall	K
Of sleep beyond forsaking	A
	-
Circled with limitation unexceeded	H
Our eyes behold exterior mysteries	F
And gods unascertainable as these	F
Shadows and shapes irresolubly heeded	H
Phantoms that tower and substance scarcely known	L
Our sister knows all mysteries one alone	L
One shape one shadow crowding out the skies	F
Whose eyeless head and lipless face debar	E
All others nameless or familiar	E
Filling with night all former lips and eyes	F
Of god and ghost and star	E
	-
For her all shapes have fed the shape of night	H
All darker forms and dubious forms or pallid	H
Are met and reconciled where none is valid	H
But unto us solution nor respite	H
Of mystery's multiform incessancy	F
From unexplored or system trodden sky	A
Shall come but as a load importunate	H
Enigma past and mystery foreseen	M
Weigh mightily upon us and between	M
Our sorrow deepens and our songs abate	H
In cadences of threne	M
	-
A gloom that gathers silence looms more closely	K
And quiet centering darkness at its heart	H
But from the certitude of night depart	H
Uncertain god nor eidolon less ghostly	K
But stronger grown with strength obtained from light	H
That failed and power lent by the stronger night	H
Perplex us with new mystery and doubt	H
If these our flames that deathward toss and fall	K
Be festal lights or lights funereal	K
For mightier gods within the gulfs without	H
Phantoms more cryptical	K
	-
New shadows from the wings of Time unfolding	A
Across the depth and eminence of years	F
Fall deeplier with the broadening gloom of fears	F
Prophetic eyed with planet hosts beholding	A
The night take form upon the face of suns	F
We see thus grief's vaticination runs	F
Presageful sorrow for our sister slain	M
A night wherein all sorrow shall be past	H
One with night's single mystery at last	H
Nor vocal sun nor singing world remain	M
As Time's elegiast	H

Clark Ashton Smith

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