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This Rome that was the toil of many men	A
The consummation of laborious years	B
Fulfilment's crown to visions of the dead	C
And image of the wide desire of kings	D
Is made my darkling dream's effulgency	D
Fuel of vision brief embodiment	E
Of wandering will and wastage of the strong	F
Fierce ecstasy of one tremendous hour	G
When ages piled on ages like a pyre	G
Flamed to the years behind and years to be	H
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Yet any sunset were as much as this	D
Save for the music forced from tongueless things	D
The rape of Matter's huge unchorded harp	I
By the many fingered fire a music pierced	J
With the tense voice of Life more quick to cry	K
Its agony and save that I believed	L
The radiance redder for the blood of men	A
Destruction hastens and intensifies	D
The process that is beauty manifests	D
Ranges of form unknown before and gives	D
Motion and voice and hue where otherwise	D
Bleak inexpressiveness had levelled all	M
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If one create there is the lengthy toil	N
The labored years and days league toward an end	O
Less than the measure of desire mayhap	I
After the sure consuming of all strength	P
And strain of faculties that otherwhere	K
Were loosed upon enjoyment and at last	Q
Remains to one capacity nor power	K
For pleasure in the thing that he hath made	R
But on destruction hangs but little use	D
Of time or faculty but all is turned	S
To the one purpose unobstructed pure	K
Of sensuous rapture and observant joy	T
And from the intensities of death and ruin	U
One draws a heightened and completer life	V
And both extends and vindicates himself	W
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I would I were a god with all the scope	I
Of attributes that are the essential core	K
Of godhead and its visibility	H
I am but emperor and hold awhile	X
The power to hasten death upon its way	Y
And cry a halt to worn and lagging Life	V
For others but for mine own self may not	Z
Delay the one nor bid the other speed	A2
There have been many kings and they are dead	C
And have no power in death save what the wind	B2
Confers upon their blown and brainless dust	C2
To vex the eyeballs of posterity	H
But were I God I would be overlord	D2
Of many kings and were as breath to guide	E2
Their dust of destiny And were I God	F2
Exempt from this mortality which clogs	D
Perception and clear exercise of will	G2
What rapture it would be if but to watch	H2
Destruction crouching at the back of Time	I2
The tongueless dooms which dog the travelling suns	D
The vampire Silence at the breast of worlds	D
Fire without light that gnaws the base of things	D
And Lethe's mounting tide that rots the stone	J2
Of fundamental spheres This were enough	K2
Till such time as the dazzled wings of will	G2
Came up with power's accession scarcely felt	L2
For very suddenness Then I would urge	M2
The strong contention and conflicting might	N2
Of Chaos and Creation matching them	O2
Those immemorial powers inimical	P2
And all their stars and gulfs subservient	E
Dynasts of time and anarchs of the dark	Q2
In closer war reverseless and would set	R2
New discord at the universal core	K
A Samson principle to bring it down	S2
In one magnificence of ruin Yea	Y
The monster Chaos were mine unleashed hound	T2
And all my power Destruction's own right arm	U2
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I would exult to mark the smouldering stars	D
Renew beneath my breath their elder fire	K
And feed upon themselves to nothingness	D
The might of suns slow paced with swinging weight	V2
Of myriad worlds were made at my desire	K
One orb of roaring and torrential light	N2
Through which the voice of Life were audible	P2
And singing of the immemorial dead	C
Whose dust is loosened into vaporous wings	D
With soaring wrack of systems ruinous	D
And were I weary of the glare of these	D
I would tear out the eyes of light and stand	W2
Above a chaos of extinguished suns	D
That crowd and grind and shiver thunderously	P2
Lending vast voice and motion but no ray	Y
To the stretched silence of the blinded gulfs	D
Thus would I give my godhead space and speech	X2
For its assertion and thus pleasure it	Y2
Hastening the feet of Time with cast of worlds	D
Like careless pebbles or with shattered suns	D
Brightening the aspect of Eternity	H

Clark Ashton Smith

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