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I	A
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O wonderful and wing d flower	B
That hoverest in the garden close	C
Finding in mazes of the rose	D
The rapture of a summer hour	B
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O symbol of Impermanence	D
Thou art a word of Beauty's tongue	E
A word that in her song is sung	E
Appealing to the inner sense	D
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Of that high mystic harmony	F
All lovely things are notes and words	D
The growth of flowers the flight of birds	D
The figured Signs the foam wrought sea	F
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The whitening gold of sudden dawn	G
The sunset's garnet afterglow	H
The cumulus the noonlit snow	H
The moon in irised clouds withdrawn	G
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Lacking who knows a cloud a tree	F
A streamlet's purl the ocean's roar	I
From Nature's multidinous store	I
Imperfect were the melody	F
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II	A
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O Beauty why so sad my heart	J
Why stirs in me a nameless pain	K
Which seems like some remembered strain	K
As on this product of thine art	J
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Enraptured marvelling I gaze	D
And note how airily 'tis wrought	L
A wing d dream a bodied thought	L
The spirit of the summer days	D
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Thy Beauty opes O butterfly	A
The doors of being with subtle sense	D
Of Beauty's frail impermanence	D
And grief of knowing it must die	A
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Again I seem to know the tears	D
Of other lives the woe and pain	K
Of days that died resurgent wane	K
The moons of countless bygone years	D
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III	A
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On other worlds on other stars	D
To us but tiny motes of light	M
Or lost in distances of night	M
Beyond our system's farthest bars	D
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A priest to Beauty's service sworn	N
I sought and served her all my days	D
With music and with hymns of praise	D
In star fall and the suns of morn	N
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With thrilling heart her gaze I knew	O
In other moons her bosom gleamed	P
And all the golden planet seemed	P
To shadow forth her shape and hue	O
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I grieved to watch the summers pass	D
With sun led pageantries of bloom	Q
And sad aphelions assume	Q
Their realm with crisping leaves and grass	D
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Mine was the grief of change and death	R
Of fair things gone beyond recall	S
The paling light of dawns and all	S
The flowers' vanished hues and breath	R
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IV	-
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From out the web of former lives	D
The ancient never broken chain	K
Of love and sorrow loss and gain	K
One certain truth my heart derives	D
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Though Beauty passes this I know	H
From change and death this verity	F
Her spirit lives eternally	F
'Tis but her forms that come and go	H
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V	F
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Lo I am Beauty's constant thrall	S
Must ever on her voice await	T
And follow through the maze of Fate	T
Her luring strange and mystical	U
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Obedient to her summonings	D
Forever must my heart aspire	V
And seek on wings of lyric fire	B
To penetrate the heart of things	D
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Wherein she sits augustly throned	T
In loveliness that renders dumb	W
The Essence and the final Sum	W
With peril and with wonder zoned	T
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What though I fail my duller sense	D
Baffled as by a wall of stone	X
The high desire the search alone	X
Are their own prize and recompense	D

Clark Ashton Smith

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