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abide ABYSS afar ashen beautiful beneath Betrayed blaze BOOK CLUB cacophonies Carven Chaos citadel Clark Ashton Smith CLUB OF CALIFORNIA constellations consummation crouching dawn dead delight desire DEXTER doom dread dream dust Egypt's eternal evermore Exulting eyes fain fear feet fire flame foam forevermore gloom God's godhead grievous gulfs hands HARLOT HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Hast thou Hastening hath died Hath lain heart heaven huge immemorial infinite judgement kings Knowing light limbs Love hath majestic MEMNON mighty monarchal moon nameless night nothingness Omnipotence orbits planets poems poetry precocity rapture rend Rome ruin SAN FRANCISCO seal seas silence sleep song SONNETS soul spheres Splendours stars stood strength strong Summer sun's suns thee Thine embrace thorny crown Thou hast thou shalt throne Throneless thunder Thy darks thy deeps thy face Thy mouth thy wing tide tongueless Trembling tyranny unto vast verse voice waste whence Wilt thou worlds Worm yore
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Page 4 - ... guide Their dust of destiny. And were I god, Exempt from this mortality which clogs Perception, and clear exercise of will, What rapture it would be, if but to watch Destruction crouching at the back of Time, The tongueless dooms which dog the travelling suns . I would exult to mark the smoldering stars Renew beneath my breath their elder fire, And feed upon themselves to nothingness. The might of suns, slow-paced with swinging weight Of myriad worlds, were made at my desire One long rapidity...
Page 5 - ... with swinging weight Of myriad worlds, were made at my desire One long rapidity of roaring light, Through which the voice of Life was audible, And singing of the immemorial dead Whose dust is loosened into vaporous wings With soaring wrack of systems ruinous. And were I weary of the glare of these, I would tear out the eyes of light, and stand Above a chaos of extinguished suns. N MABEL SIMPSON Vigil O one will ever really know Where I come from nor where I go. This is not I, this body's mold,...
Page 5 - To the stretched silence of the blinded gulfs. Thus would I give my godhead space and speech For its assertion, and thus pleasure it, Hastening the feet of Time with cast of worlds Like careless pebbles, or, with shattered suns, Brightening the aspect of Eternity. ^ lA *>A 4> *.* \ *fcs SVK^-W* =s...