The Hashish Eater -or- The Apocalypse Of Evil Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Bow down I am the emperor of dreams	A
I crown me with the million colored sun	B
Of secret worlds incredible and take	C
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar	D
Throned on the mounting zenith and illume	E
The spaceward flown horizons infinite	F
Like rampant monsters roaring for their glut	F
The fiery crested oceans rise and rise	G
By jealous moons maleficently urged	H
To follow me for ever mountains horned	I
With peaks of sharpest adamant and mawed	I
With sulphur lit volcanoes lava langued	I
Usurp the skies with thunder but in vain	J
And continents of serpent shapen trees	K
With slimy trunks that lengthen league by league	L
Pursue my light through ages spurned to fire	M
By that supreme ascendance sorcerers	N
And evil kings predominanthly armed	I
With scrolls of fulvous dragon skin whereon	J
Are worm like runes of ever twisting flame	E
Would stay me and the sirens of the stars	O
With foam like songs from silver fragrance wrought	I
Would lure me to their crystal reefs and moons	P
Where viper eyed senescent devils dwell	Q
With antic gnomes abominably wise	G
Heave up their icy horns across my way	R
But naught deters me from the goal ordained	I
By suns and eons and immortal wars	S
And sung by moons and motes the goal whose name	E
Is all the secret of forgotten glyphs	S
By sinful gods in torrid rubies writ	I
For ending of a brazen book the goal	T
Whereat my soaring ecstasy may stand	I
In amplest heavens multiplied to hold	I
My hordes of thunder vested avatars	S
And Prometh an armies of my thought	I
That brandish clasp d levins There I call	U
My memories intolerably clad	I
In light the peaks of paradise may wear	V
And lead the Armageddon of my dreams	S
Whose instant shout of triumph is become	E
Immensity's own music for their feet	I
Are founded on innumerable worlds	S
Remote in alien epochs and their arms	S
Upraised are columns potent to exalt	I
With ease ineffable the countless thrones	S
Of all the gods that are or gods to be	W
And bear the seats of Asmodai and Set	I
Above the seventh paradise	S
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Supreme	E
In culminant omniscience manifold	I
And served by senses multitudinous	S
Far posted on the shifting walls of time	E
With eyes that roam the star unwinnowed fields	S
Of utter night and chaos I convoke	L
The Babel of their visions and attend	I
At once their myriad witness I behold	I
In Ombos where the fallen Titans dwell	Q
With mountain builded walls and gulfs for moat	I
The secret cleft that cunning dwarves have dug	L
Beneath an alp like buttress and I list	I
Too late the clam of adamantine gongs	S
Dinned by their drowsy guardians whose feet	I
Have fell the wasp like sting of little knives	S
Embrued With slobber of the basilisk	L
Or the pail Juice of wounded upas In	J
Some red Antarean garden world I see	S
The sacred flower with lips of purple flesh	X
And silver Lashed vermilion lidded eyes	S
Of torpid azure whom his furtive priests	S
At moonless eve in terror seek to slay	R
With bubbling grails of sacrificial blood	I
That hide a hueless poison And I read	I
Upon the tongue of a forgotten sphinx	S
The annulling word a spiteful demon wrote	I
In gall of slain chimeras and I know	J
What pentacles the lunar wizards use	S
That once allured the gulf returning roc	L
With ten great wings of furl d storm to pause	S
Midmost an alabaster mount and there	V
With boulder weighted webs of dragons' gut	I
Uplift by cranes a captive giant built	I
They wound the monstrous moonquake throbbing bird	I
And plucked from off his saber taloned feet	I
Uranian sapphires fast in frozen blood	I
And amethysts from Mars I lean to read	I
With slant lipped mages in an evil star	Y
The monstrous archives of a war that ran	J
Through wasted eons and the prophecy	S
Of wars renewed which shall commemorate	I
Some enmity of wivern headed kings	S
Even to the brink of time I know the blooms	S
Of bluish fungus freaked with mercury	S
That bloat within the creators of the moon	J
And in one still selenic and fetor and I know	J
What clammy blossoms blanched and cavern grown	J
Are proffered to their gods in Uranus	S
By mole eyed peoples and the livid seed	I
Of some black fruit a king in Saturn ate	I
Which cast upon his tinkling palace floor	D
Took root between the burnished flags and now	J
Hath mounted and become a hellish tree	S
Whose lithe and hairy branches lined with mouths	S
Net like a hundred ropes his lurching throne	J
And strain at starting pillars I behold	I
The slowly thronging corals that usurp	Z
Some harbour of a million masted sea	S
And sun them on the league long wharves of gold	I
Bulks of enormous crimson kraken limbed	I
And kraken headed lifting up as crowns	S
The octiremes of perished emperors	S
And galleys fraught with royal gems that sailed	I
From a sea fled haven	J
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Swifter and stranger grow	J
The visions now a mighty city looms	S
Hewn from a hill of purest cinnabar	Y
To domes and turrets like a sunrise thronged	I
With tier on tier of captive moons half drowned	I
In shifting erubescence But whose hands	S
Were sculptors of its doors and columns wrought	I
To semblance of prodigious blooms of old	I
No eremite hath lingered there to say	R
And no man comes to learn for long ago	J
A prophet came warning its timid king	L
Against the plague of lichens that had crept	I
Across subverted empires and the sand	I
Of wastes that cyclopean mountains ward	I
Which slow and ineluctable would come	E
To take his fiery bastions and his fanes	R
And quench his domes with greenish tetter Now	J
I see a host of naked gents armed	I
With horns of behemoth and unicorn	J
Who wander blinded by the clinging spells	R
O hostile wizardry and stagger on	J
To forests where the very leaves have eyes	R
And ebonies like wrathful dragons roar	D
To teaks a chuckle in the loathly gloom	E
Where coiled lianas lean with serried fangs	R
From writhing palms with swollen boles that moan	J
Where leeches of a scarlet moss have sucked	I
The eyes of some dead monster and have crawled	I
To bask upon his azure spotted spine	J
Where hydra throated blossoms hiss and sing	L
Or yawn with mouths that drip a sluggish dew	I
Whose touch is death and slow corrosion Then	J
I watch a war of pygmies met by night	I
With pitter of their drums of parrot's hide	I
On plains with no horizon where a god	I
Might lose his way for centuries and there	V
In wreath d light and fulgors all convolved	I
A rout of green enormous moons ascend	I
With rays that like a shivering venom run	J
On inch long swords of lizard fang	L
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Surveyed	I
From this my throne as from a central sun	J
The pageantries of worlds and cycles pass	R
Forgotten splendors dream by dream unfold	I
Like tapestry and vanish violet suns	R
Or suns of changeful iridescence bring	L
Their rays about me like the colored lights	R
Imploring priests might lift to glorify	A2
The face of some averted god the songs	R
Of mystic poets in a purple world	I
Ascend to me in music that is made	I
From unconceiv d perfumes and the pulse	R
Of love ineffable the lute players	R
Whose lutes are strung with gold of the utmost moon	J
Call forth delicious languors never known	J
Save to their golden kings the sorcerers	R
Of hooded stars inscrutable to God	I
Surrender me their demon wrested scrolls	R
lnscribed with lore of monstrous alchemies	R
And awful transformations	R
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If I will	B2
I am at once the vision and the seer	C2
And mingle with my ever streaming pomps	R
And still abide their suzerain I am	E
The neophyte who serves a nameless god	I
Within whose fane the fanes of Hecatompylos	R
Were arks the Titan worshippers might bear	V
Or flags to pave the threshold or I am	E
The god himself who calls the fleeing clouds	R
Into the nave where suns might congregate	I
And veils the darkling mountain of his face	R
With fold on solemn fold for whom the priests	R
Amass their monthly hecatomb of gems	R
Opals that are a camel cumbering load	I
And monstrous alabraundines won from war	D
With realms of hostile serpents which arise	R
Combustible in vapors many hued	I
And myrrh excelling perfumes It is I	A2
The king who holds with scepter dropping hand	I
The helm of some great barge of orichalchum	E
Sailing upon an amethystine sea	R
To isles of timeless summer for the snows	R
Of Hyperborean winter and their winds	R
Sleep in his jewel builded capital	D2
Nor any charm of flame wrought wizardry	R
Nor conjured suns may rout them so he fees	R
With captive kings to urge his serried oars	R
Hopeful of dales where amaranthine dawn	J
Hath never left the faintly sighing lote	I
And lisping moly Firm of heart I fare	V
Impanoplied with azure diamond	I
As hero of a quest Achernar lights	R
To deserts filled with ever wandering flames	R
That feed upon the sullen marl and soar	D
To wrap the slopes of mountains and to leap	E2
With tongues intolerably lengthening	L
That lick the blench d heavens But there lives	R
Secure as in a garden walled from wind	I
A lonely flower by a placid well	Q
Midmost the flaring tumult of the flames	R
That roar as roars a storm possessed sea	R
Impacable for ever and within	J
That simple grail the blossom lifts there lies	R
One drop of an incomparable dew	I
Which heals the parch d weariness of kings	R
And cures the wound of wisdom I am page	F2
To an emperor who reigns ten thousand years	R
And through his labyrinthine palace rooms	R
Through courts and colonnades and balconies	R
Wherein immensity itself is mazed	I
I seek the golden gorget he hath lost	I
On which in sapphires fine as orris seed	I
Are writ the names of his conniving stars	R
And friendly planets Roaming thus I hear	C2
Like demon tears incessant through dark ages	R
The drip of sullen clepsydrae and once	R
In every lustrum hear the brazen clocks	R
Innumerably clang with such a sound	I
As brazen hammers make by devils dinned	I
On tombs of all the dead and nevermore	D
I find the gorget but at length I find	I
A seal d room whose nameless prisoner	M
Moans with a nameless torture and would turn	J
To hell's red rack as to a lilied couch	G2
From that whereon they stretched him and I find	I
Prostrate upon a lotus painted floor	D
The loveliest of all beloved slaves	R
My emperor hath and from her pulseless side	I
A serpent rises whiter than the root	I
Of some venefic bloom in darkness grown	J
And gazes up with green lit eyes that seem	E
Like drops of cold congealing poison	J
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Hark	L
What word was whispered in a tongue unknown	J
In crypts of some impenetrable world	I
Whose is the dark dethroning secrecy	R
I cannot share though I am king of suns	R
And king therewith of strong eternity	R
Whose gnomons with their swords of shadow guard	I
My gates and slay the intruder Silence loads	R
The wind of ether and the worlds are still	B2
To hear the word that flees mine audience	R
In simultaneous ruin al my dreams	R
Fall like a rack of fuming vapors raised	I
To semblance by a necromant and leave	H2
Spirit and sense unthinkably alone	J
Above a universe of shrouded stars	R
And suns that wander cowled with sullen gloom	E
Like witches to a Sabbath Fear is born	J
In crypts below the nadir and hath crawled	I
Reaching the floor of space and waits for wings	R
To lift it upward like a hellish worm	E
Fain for the flesh of cherubim Red orbs	R
And eyes that gleam remotely as the stars	R
But are not eyes of suns or galaxies	R
Gather and throng to the base of darkness flame	E
Behind some black abysmal curtain burns	R
Implacable and fanned to whitest wrath	I2
By rais d wings that flail the whiffled gloom	E
And make a brief and broken wind that moans	R
As one who rides a throbbing rack There is	R
A Thing that crouches worlds and years remote	I
Whose horns a demon sharpens rasping forth	J2
A note to shatter the donjon keeps of time	E
Or crack the sphere of crystal All is dark	L
For ages and my toiling heart suspends	R
Its clamor as within the clutch of death	K2
Tightening with tense hermetic rigors Then	J
In one enormous million flashing flame	E
The stars unveil the suns remove their cowls	R
And beam to their responding planets time	E
Is mine once more and armies of its dreams	R
Rally to that insuperable throne	J
Firmed on the zenith	L2
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Once again I seek	L
The meads of shining moly I had found	I
In some anterior vision by a stream	E
No cloud hath ever tarnished where the sun	J
A gold Narcissus loiters evermore	D
Above his golden image But I find	I
A corpse the ebbing water will not keep	E2
With eyes like sapphires that have lain in hell	Q
And felt the hissing coals and all the flowers	R
About me turn to hooded serpents swayed	I
By flutes of devils in lascivious dance	R
Meet for the nod of Satan when he reigns	R
Above the raging Sabbath and is wooed	I
By sarabands of witches But I turn	J
To mountains guarding with their horns of snow	J
The source of that befoul d rill and seek	L
A pinnacle where none but eagles climb	E
And they with failing pennons But in vain	J
I flee for on that pylon of the sky	A2
Some curse hath turned the unprinted snow to flame	E
Red fires that curl and cluster to my tread	I
Trying the summit's narrow cirque And now	J
I see a silver python far beneath	M2
Vast as a river that a fiend hath witched	I
And forced to flow reverted in its course	R
To mountains whence it issued Rapidly	R
It winds from slope to crumbling slope and fills	R
Ravines and chasmal gorges till the crags	R
Totter with coil on coil incumbent Soon	J
It hath entwined the pinnacle I keep	E2
And gapes with a fanged unfathomable maw	E
Wherein Great Typhon and Enceladus	R
Were orts of daily glut But I am gone	J
For at my call a hippogriff hath come	E
And firm between his thunder beating wings	R
I mount the sheer cerulean walls of noon	J
And see the earth a spurn d pebble fall	U
Lost in the fields of nether stars and seek	L
A planet where the outwearied wings of time	E
Might pause and furl for respite or the plumes	R
Of death be stayed and loiter in reprieve	H2
Above some deathless lily for therein	J
Beauty hath found an avatar of flowers	R
Blossoms that clothe it as a colored flame	E
From peak to peak from pole to sullen pole	T
And turn the skies to perfume There I find	I
A lonely castle calm and unbeset	I
Save by the purple spears of amaranth	N2
And leafing iris tender sworded Walls	R
Of flush d marble wonderful with rose	R
And domes like golden bubbles and minarets	R
That take the clouds as coronal these are mine	J
For voiceless looms the peaceful barbican	J
And the heavy teethed portcullis hangs aloft	I
To grin a welcome So I leave awhile	O2
My hippogriff to crop the magic meads	R
And pass into a court the lilies hold	I
And tread them to a fragrance that pursues	R
To win the portico whose columns carved	I
Of lazuli and amber mock the palms	R
Of bright Aidennic forests capitalled	I
With fronds of stone fretted to airy lace	R
Enfolding drupes that seem as tawny clusters	R
Of breasts of unknown houris and convolved	I
With vines of shut and shadowy leav d flowers	R
Like the dropt lids of women that endure	P2
Some loin dissolving ecstasy Through doors	R
Enlaid with lilies twined luxuriously	O2
I enter dazed and blinded with the sun	J
And hear in gloom that changing colors cloud	I
A chuckle sharp as crepitating ice	R
Upheaved and cloven by shoulders of the damned	I
Who strive in Antenora When my eyes	R
Undazzle and the cloud of color fades	R
I find me in a monster guarded room	E
Where marble apes with wings of griffins crowd	I
On walls an evil sculptor wrought and beasts	R
Wherein the sloth and vampire bat unite	I
Pendulous by their toes of tarnished bronze	R
Usurp the shadowy interval of lamps	R
That hang from ebon arches Like a ripple	O2
Borne by the wind from pool to sluggish pool	O2
In fields where wide Cocytus flows his bound	I
A crackling smile around that circle runs	R
And all the stone wrought gibbons stare at me	R
With eyes that turn to glowing coals A fear	Q2
That found no name in Babel flings me on	J
Breathless and faint with horror to a hall	O2
Within whose weary self reverting round	I
The languid curtains heavier than palls	R
Unnumerably depict a weary king	L
Who fain would cool his jewel crusted hands	R
In lakes of emerald evening or the field	I
Of dreamless poppies pure with rain I flee	R
Onward and all the shadowy curtains shake	L
With tremors of a silken sighing mirth	R2
And whispers of the innumerable king	L
Breathing a tale of ancient pestilence	R
Whose very words are vile contagion Then	J
I reach a room where caryatids	R
Carved in the form of voluptuous Titan women	J
Surround a throne flowering ebony	R
Where creeps a vine of crystal On the throne	J
There lolls a wan enormous Worm whose bulk	L
Tumid with all the rottenness of kings	R
Overflows its arms with fold on creas d fold	I
Obscenely bloating Open mouthed he leans	R
And from his fulvous throat a score of tongues	R
Depending like to wreaths of torpid vipers	R
Drivel with phosphorescent slime that runs	R
Down all his length of soft and monstrous folds	R
And creeping among the flowers of ebony	R
Lends them the life of tiny serpents Now	J
Ere the Horror ope those red and lashless slits	R
Of eyes that draw the gnat and midge I turn	J
And follow down a dusty hall whose gloom	E
Lined by the statues with their mighty limbs	R
Ends in golden roof d balcony	R
Sphering the flowered horizon	J
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Ere my heart	I
Hath hushed the panic tumult of its pulses	R
I listen from beyond the horizon's rim	E
A mutter faint as when the far simoom	E
Mounting from unknown deserts opens forth	J2
Wide as the waste those wings of torrid night	I
That shake the doom of cities from their folds	R
And musters in its van a thousand winds	R
That with disrooted palms for besoms rise	R
And sweep the sands to fury As the storm	E
Approaching mounts and loudens to the ears	R
Of them that toil in fields of sesame	E
So grows the mutter and a shadow creeps	R
Above the gold horizon like a dawn	J
Of darkness climbing zenith ward They come	E
The Sabaoth of retribution drawn	J
From all dread spheres that knew my trespassing	L
And led by vengeful fiends and dire alastors	R
That owned my sway aforetime Cockatrice	R
Chimera martichoras behemoth	L2
Geryon and sphinx and hydra on my ken	J
Arise as might some Afrit builded city	E
Consummate in the lifting of a lash	S2
With thunderous domes and sounding obelisks	R
And towers of night and fire alternate Wings	R
Of white hot stone along the hissing wind	I
Bear up the huge and furnace hearted beasts	R
Of hells beyond Rutilicus and things	R
Whose lightless length would mete the gyre of moons	R
Born from the caverns of a dying sun	J
Uncoil to the very zenith half disclosed	I
From gulfs below the horizon octopi	A2
Like blazing moons with countless arms of fire	M
Climb from the seas of ever surging flame	E
That roll and roar through planets unconsumed	I
Beating on coasts of unknown metals beasts	R
That range the mighty worlds of Alioth rise	R
Afforesting the heavens with mulitudinous horns	R
Amid whose maze the winds are lost and borne	J
On cliff like brows of plunging scolopendras	R
The shell wrought towers of ocean witches loom	E
And griffin mounted gods and demons throned	I
On sable dragons and the cockodrills	R
That bear the spleenful pygmies on their backs	R
And blue faced wizards from the worlds of Saiph	H2
On whom Titanic scorpions fawn and armies	R
That move with fronts reverted from the foe	H2
And strike athwart their shoulders at the shapes	R
The shields reflect in crystal and eidola	R
Fashioned within unfathomable caves	R
By hands of eyeless peoples and the blind	I
Worm shapen monsters of a sunless world	I
With krakens from the ultimate abyss	R
And Demogorgons of the outer dark	L
Arising shout with dire multisonous clamors	R
And threatening me with dooms ineffable	R
In words whereat the heavens leap to flame	E
Advance upon the enchanted palace Falling	L
For league on league before their shadows light	I
And eat like fire the arnaranthine meads	R
Leaving an ashen desert In the palace	R
I hear the apes of marble shriek and howl	R
And all the women shapen columns moan	J
Babbling with terror In my tenfold fear	Q2
A monstrous dread unnamed in any hall	R
I rise and flee with the fleeing wind for wings	R
And in a trice the wizard palace reefs	R
And spring to a single tower of flame	E
Goes out and leaves nor shard nor ember Flown	J
Beyond the world upon that fleeing wind	I
I reach the gulf's irrespirable verge	T2
Where fads the strongest storm for breath and fall	R
Supportless through the nadir plung d gloom	E
Beyond the scope and vision of the sun	J
To other skies and systems	R
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In a world	I
Deep wooded with the multi colored fungi	A2
That soar to semblance of fantastic palms	R
I fall as falls the meteor stone and break	L
A score of trunks to atom powder Unharmed	I
I rise and through the illimitable woods	R
Among the trees of flimsy opal roam	E
And see their tops that clamber hour by hour	M
To touch the suns of iris Things unseen	J
Whose charnel breath informs the tideless air	V
With spreading pools of fetor follow me	E
Elusive past the ever changing palms	R
And pittering moths with wide and ashen wings	R
Flit on before and insects ember hued	I
Descending hurtle through the gorgeous gloom	E
And quench themselves in crumbling thickets Heard	I
Far off the gong like roar of beasts unknown	J
Resounds at measured intervals of time	E
Shaking the riper trees to dust that falls	R
In clouds of acrid perfume stifling me	E
Beneath an irised pall	R
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Now the palmettoes	R
Grow far apart and lessen momently	R
To shrubs a dwarf might topple Over them	E
I see an empty desert all ablaze	R
With ametrysts and rubies and the dust	I
Of garnets or carnelians On I roam	E
Treading the gorgeous grit that dazzles me	E
With leaping waves of endless rutilance	R
Whereby the air is turned to a crimson gloom	E
Through which I wander blind as any Kobold	I
Till underfoot the grinding sands give place	R
To stone or metal with a massive ring	L
More welcome to mine ears than golden bells	R
Or tinkle of silver fountains When the gloom	E
Of crimson lifts I stand upon the edge	U2
Of a broad black plain of adamant that reaches	R
Level as windless water to the verge	T2
Of all the world and through the sable plain	J
A hundred streams of shattered marble run	J
And streams of broken steel and streams of bronze	R
Like to the ruin of all the wars of time	E
To plunge with clangor of timeless cataracts	R
Adown the gulfs eternal	R
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So I follow	R
Between a river of steel and a river of bronze	R
With ripples loud and tuneless as the clash	S2
Of a million lutes and come to the precipice	R
From which they fall and make the mighty sound	I
Of a million swords that meet a million shields	R
Or din of spears and armour in the wars	R
Of half the worlds and eons Far beneath	M2
They fall through gulfs and cycles of the void	I
And vanish like a stream of broken stars	R
into the nether darkness nor the gods	R
Of any sun nor demons of the gulf	H2
Will dare to know what everlasting sea	R
Is fed thereby and mounts forevermore	V
In one unebbing tide	I
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What nimbus cloud	I
Or night of sudden and supreme eclipse	R
Is on the suns opal At my side	I
The rivers run with a wan and ghostly gleam	E
Through darkness falling as the night that falls	R
From spheres extinguished Turning I behold	I
Betwixt the sable desert and the suns	R
The pois d wings of all the dragon rout	I
Far flown in black occlusion thousand fold	I
Through stars and deeps and devastated worlds	R
Upon my trail of terror Griffins rocs	R
And sluggish dark chimeras heavy winged	I
After the ravin of dispeopled lands	R
And harpies and the vulture birds of hell	R
Hot from abominable feasts and fain	J
To cool their beaks and talons in my blood	I
All all have gathered and the wingless rear	V
With rank on rank of foul colossal Worms	R
Makes horrent now the horizon From the wan	J
I hear the shriek of wyvers loud and shrill	R
As tempests in a broken fane and roar	V
Of sphinxes like relentless toll of bells	R
From towers infernal Cloud on hellish cloud	I
They arch the zenith and a dreadful wind	I
Falls from them like the wind before the storm	E
And in the wind my riven garment streams	R
And flutters in the face of all the void	I
Even as flows a flaffing spirit lost	I
On the pit s undying tempest Louder grows	R
The thunder of the streams of stone and bronze	R
Redoubled with the roar of torrent wings	R
Inseparable mingled Scarce I keep	E2
My footing in the gulfward winds of fear	V
And mighty thunders beating to the void	I
In sea like waves incessant and would flee	R
With them and prove the nadir founded night	I
Where fall the streams of ruin But when I reach	V2
The verge and seek through sun defeating gloom	E
To measure with my gaze the dread descent	I
I see a tiny star within the depths	R
A light that stays me while the wings of doom	E
Convene their thickening thousands for the star	V
increases taking to its hueless orb	W2
With all the speed of horror chang d dreams	R
The light as of a million million moons	R
And floating up through gulfs and glooms eclipsed	I
It grows and grows a huge white eyeless Face	R
That fills the void and fills the universe	R
And bloats against the limits of the world	I
With lips of flame that open	J

Clark Ashton Smith

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