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I sat beside the moonless tarn alone	A
In darkness where a mumbling air was blown	A
A moulded air insufferably fraught	B
With dust of plundered charnels there was naught	B
In this my dream but darkness and the wind	C
The blowing dust the stagnant waters blind	C
And sombre boughs of pine or cypress old	D
Wherefrom a rain of ashes dark and cold	D
At 'whiles fell on me or was driven by	E
To feed the tongueless tarn within the sky	E
The stars were like a failing phosphor wan	F
In gutted tombs from which the worms have gone	G
But though the dust and ashes in one cloud	H
Blinded and stifled me as might a shroud	H
And though the foul putrescent waters gave	I
Upon my face the fetors of the grave	I
Though all was black corruption and despair	J
I could not stir like mandrake rooted there	J
And with mine every breath I seemed to raise	K
The burden of some charnel of old days	K
Where tier on tier the leaden coffins lie	E
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While sluggish black eternities went by	E
I waited on the darkness of my dream	L
There fell nor lantern flame nor lightning gleam	L
Nor gleam of moon or meteor the wind	C
Withdrawn as in some sighing tomb declined	C
And all the dust was fallen the waters drear	J
Lay still as blood of corpses Loud and near	J
The cry of one who drowned in her despair	J
Came to me from the filthy tarn the air	J
Shuddered thereat and all my heart was grown	A
A place of fears the nether hell might own	A
And prey to monstrous wings and beaks malign	M
For lo the voice O dearest love was thine	M
And I I could not stir the dreadful weight	N
Of tomb on ancient tomb accumulate	N
Lay on my limbs and stifled all my breath	O
And when I strove to cry the dust of death	O
Had filled my mouth nor any whisper came	P
To answer thee who called upon my name	P

Clark Ashton Smith

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