Clark Ashton Smith

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Psalm (from - Ebony And Crystal) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBDCEFGH CIJKLMBBNOODOBPMBCBC QRKC

My beloved is a well of clear watersA
To which I have come at noontideB
From the land of the Abomination of DesolationC
From the lion dreaded wasteB
Where nothing dwelleth but the inconsolable crying of an evil windB
And the wandering realms and cities of the wide mirageD
Where no one passeth except the sunC
Who walked like a terrible god through the hell of the brazen skiesE
And the dreadful cohorts of the constellationsF
Who pass remote in alien yearsG
And clad with icy azures of unattainable distanceH
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My beloved is a singing fountainC
Set in a wide oasisI
Between the frondage of the fruitful palmJ
And the branches of the flowering myrtleK
The wind that bloweth thereonL
Hath lain in a vale of cassia and myrrhM
And caressed the vermillion blossoms of the pomegranateB
Whose red is the red of the lips of AstarteB
A thousand nightingales are gathered thereN
From all the gardens of lost romanceO
And plots of purple and silver lilliesO
More beautiful than the meadows of mirageD
Revive the flowers of Sabean queensO
And the blossoms worn by all the princesses of legendB
Ah suffer me to dwellP
Thereby and forget the gilded cities of desireM
The domes of spectral goldB
That fled from horizon to horizonC
Before me and left my feet in the sinking vales and shifting plains of the desertB
Whose waters are green with corruptionC
And bitter with the dust and ashes of deathQ
Ah suffer me to sleepR
In the balsam laden shadows of the palm and myrtleK
By the ever springing fountainC

Clark Ashton Smith



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