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I	A
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From the close valleys of thy love	B
Where flowers of white and coral are	C
And the soft gloom of cave and grove	D
How have I wandered spent and fat	E
By fell and mountain thence forbanned	E
Into this lamia haunted land	E
	-
I could not know the coiling path	F
Pebbled with sard and lazuli	G
Would lead me to the desert's wrath	F
The rancor of the glaring sky	A
The tarns that like stirred serpents hiss	H
The dens of drake and cockatrice	H
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I roam a limbo long abhorred	E
Whose dread horizons flame and flow	I
Like iron from a furnace poured	E
A bournless realm of sterile woe	I
Where mad mirages fill the dawn	J
With roses lost and fountains gone	J
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O land where dolent monsters mate	E
I know the lusts that howl and run	K
When the red stones reverberate	E
The soot black lecheries that wail	L
From Hinnom to the moons of bale	L
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What desert naiads amorous	H
Have drawn me to their sunken strand	E
How many a desert succubus	H
Has clasped me on her couch of sand	E
What liches foul with breast nor face	H
Have seemed to bear thy beauty's grace	H
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What voises have besought me there	M
With sweet illusion of thine own	N
Luring me rapt and unaware	M
To pits where dying demons moan	N
What marble limbs have gleamed as thine	O
Slow sinking into sand or brine	O
	-
Briefly in desert hermitages	H
I have lain down in my despair	M
Dreaming to sleep as slept the sages	H
But unseen lust oppressed the air	M
And crimson dreams of incubi	P
And thirst of anthropophagi	Q
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II	A
	-
Entire from mountains scaled at noon	R
I scan the realm of my duress	H
Deep cloven plain and nippled dune	R
Like to some sleeping giantess	H
Pale and supine by gods desired	E
With hearts deliriously fired	E
	-
Still without respite I must follow	I
Where the faint exile tills bequeath	S
Their bitterness to gulf and hollow	I
Still the blown dusts of ruin breathe	T
Fretting my face My feet return	U
By salt bright shores that blind and burn	U
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Silence immeasurable creeps	H
Across my path My sharpened ears	H
Are dinned with tumult from the deeps	H
Are frayed by whispers of the spheres	H
And darkly in the sepulchre	M
I hear the strident dead confer	M
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Gnawed by unceasing solitude	E
The secret veils of sight grow thin	V
High Domes that dazzle and elude	E
Columns of darkling god and djinn	V
Appear and things forbidden seem	W
Unsealed as in some awful dream	W
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My heart consumed yet unconsuming	A
Burns like a dreadful ardent sun	V
The horror of strange nights illuming	A
Shall yet I find the ways foregone	V
And speak before the heart of thee	G
The still remembered Sesame	G

Clark Ashton Smith

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