While the black perennial snows
Piled about the pole of night
Swell the fount whence Lethe flows;
While the worm, apart from light,
Eats the page where magians pored;
While the kraken, blind and white,
Guards the greening books abhorred
Where the evil oghams rust-
In accurst Atlantis stored;
While beneath the seal of dust
Dead mouths mutter not in sleep
To betray oblivion's trust;
While the dusky planets keep,
Past the outlands of the sun,
Circuits of a sunless deep,
Never shall the spell be done
And the curse be lifted never
That shall find and leave you one
With forgotten things for ever.
Malediction
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: evil, light, night, sleep, sun, trust, oblivion, white, deep, blind, black, dust, beneath, never, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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