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The poet speaks addressing a framed picture of	A
Baudelaire upon a bookcase	B
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The lamp burns stilly in the standing air	C
As in some ventless caveen Through wide windows	D
The midnight brings a silence from the stars	E
And perfumes that the planet dreams in sleep	F
The hounds have ceased to bay and the cicadas	G
To play their goblin harps The owl that whilom	H
Hooted his famine to a full chapped moon	I
Has pounced upon his gopher or has gone	J
To fresher woods behind a farther hill	K
And Hecate has grounded all the witches	G
For some glade hidden Sabbat	L
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In my room	H
The quick malign relentless clock ticks on	M
Firm as a demon's undecaying pulse	N
Or creak of Charon's oar locks as he plies	O
Between the shadow crowded shores Evoked	L
Within the vaults of my funereal brain	P
Voices awaken sibilant and restless	Q
Tongues of the viper's charnel fostered brood	L
Half grown amid the shreds of winding sheets	R
And crumbling wicker of old bones They sing	S
Those little voices all the poisonous	Q
Importunate melodies you too have heard	L
O Baudelaire in midnights when the moon	I
Sank followed by some cloudy hearse of dreams	T
Into the skyless nadir of despond	L
Black flickering cloven tongues Though we distill	K
Quintessences of hemlock or nepenthe	U
We cannot slay the small the subtle serpents	V
Whose mother is the Iamia Melancholy	W
That feeds upon our breath and sucks our veins	X
Stifling us with her velvet volumes	Y
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Now	Z
My thoughts pursue the sandal and sad myrrh	A2
Sighed by the shouds of all hesternal sorrows	D
Busied with old regrets they carry on	M
Such commerce as the burrowing necrophores	D
Conduct from grave to grave or pause to mumble	B2
Snatches of ancient amorous elegies	D
Deploring still some splendid stately love	A
Gone like the pomps of void Ecbatana	M
That only lives in epodes but will rise	D
To ghost the goldless morrows clothed about	L
With hues of suns declining and decayed	L
And crowned with ruinous autumn	M
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Other thoughts	D
Exhume the withered wind shards of ideals	D
Brittle and light as perished moths or bring	S
To sight the mummied of blair mischance	D
By dismal eves and moons disastrous flying	S
Their vans have darkened On beloved deaths	D
I muse and through my twice wept tears re gather	A2
The threads that Clotho and Lachesis have spun	M
And Atropos has cut and see the bleak	C2
Sinister gleaming of the steely shears	D
Behind the riven arrasses of time	H
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What weapon can we arm us with What bulwark	D2
Build against grief and time What moat renewed	L
With waters mortal as those the shroud Gomorrah	E2
Will the sea going termite never ferry	W
To gnaw the ebon tower the ebon ark	F2
Holding the Muses' covenant Splendor brimmed	L
What grail of God or Satan will suffice	D
For all the breadless days the unguerdoned labors	D
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Yet for a toll so light by Song transported	L
To sail beyond Elysium and Thelem	H
And see from oblivion looming balmier shores	D
Of fables infinite To light our dreams	D
At rose Aldebaran or sky huge Antares	D
Then quench their heat or temper Damascus thought	L
In cold aphelions and apastrons far	G2
To pace the sun's Typhoean ramparts vast	L
To couch on Saturns's outmost ring or roll	H2
With Pluto through his orb of eventide	L
Whose Hesper is the dwindled sun To flaunt	L
Before the blind in immarcesible purple	B2
Won from the murex of Uranian seas	D
And fire plucked vermeil of Vulcan worn against	L
These aguish mists and wintry shadows Thus	D
We triumph thus the laurel overtops	D
The upas and the yew and we decline	M
No toil no dolor of our votive doom	H
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High housed within the Alchemic Citadel	I2
We are served by Azoth and by Alkahest	L
Out of the gleamless mire and sand we make	J2
Pactolian metal Fumed from our alembics	D
The world dissolves like vapors opium wrought	L
Or drips condensed to philtres and to venorns	D
That Circe nor Simaetha dreamed We built	L
Daedalus like a labyrinth of words	D
Wherein our thoughts are twi shaped Minotaurs	D
The ages shall not slay Our ironies	D
Like marbled adders creeping on through time	H
Shall fang the brains of poets yet to be	W
Our nacred moons and corposants of beauty	W
Shall float on ever mootful lands retained	L
By Lar and Lemur where Chimera flies	D
And still the Sphinx unanswerably rules	D
Where the red phantoms we have loosed from Dis	D
Still haunt the thickets and the cities where	C
Our phosphor lamps may serve as well as any	W
Along the rutted way to Charon's wharf	K2

Clark Ashton Smith

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