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The Star-Treader, and other poems - Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith
The Star-Treader, and other poems
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Table of Contents
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
THE MORNING POOL
THE NIGHT FOREST
THE MAD WIND
SONG TO OBLIVION
MEDUSA
ODE TO THE ABYSS
THE SOUL OF THE SEA
THE BUTTERFLY
I
II
III
IV
V
THE PRICE
THE MYSTIC MEANING
ODE TO MUSIC
THE LAST NIGHT
ODE ON IMAGINATION
THE WIND AND THE MOON
LAMENT OF THE STARS
THE MAZE OF SLEEP
THE WINDS
THE MASQUE OF FORSAKEN GODS
THE POET
THE PHILOSOPHER
THE POET
THE PHILOSOPHER
JOVE
PAN
ARTEMIS
APOLLO
APHRODITE
A NYMPH
ANOTHER NYMPH
ATÈ
THE POET
THE GODS TOGETHER
A SUNSET
THE CLOUD-ISLANDS
THE SNOW-BLOSSOMS
THE SUMMER MOON
THE RETURN OF HYPERION
LETHE
ATLANTIS
THE UNREVEALED
THE ELDRITCH DARK
THE CHERRY-SNOWS
FAIRY LANTERNS
NIRVANA
THE NEMESIS OF SUNS
WHITE DEATH
RETROSPECT AND FORECAST
SHADOW OF NIGHTMARE
THE SONG OF A COMET
THE RETRIBUTION
TO THE DARKNESS
A DREAM OF BEAUTY
THE DREAM-BRIDGE
A LIVE-OAK LEAF
PINE NEEDLES
TO THE SUN
THE FUGITIVES
AVERTED MALEFICE
THE MEDUSA OF THE SKIES
A DEAD CITY
THE SONG OF THE STARS
COPAN
A SONG OF DREAMS
THE BALANCE
SATURN
FINIS
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A voice cried to me in a dawn of dreams,
Saying, "Make haste: the webs of death and birth
Are brushed away, and all the threads of earth
Wear to the breaking; spaceward gleams
Thine ancient pathway of the suns,
Whose flame is part of thee;
And deeps outreach immutably
Whose largeness runs
Through all thy spirit's mystery.
Go forth, and tread unharmed the blaze
Of stars where through thou camest in old days;
Pierce without fear each vast
Whose hugeness crushed thee not within the past.
A hand strikes off the chains of Time,
A hand swings back the door of years;
Now fall earth's bonds of gladness and of tears,
And opens the strait dream to space sublime."
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Who rides a dream, what hand shall stay!
What eye shall note or measure mete
His passage on a purpose fleet,
The thread and weaving of his way!
It caught me from the clasping world,
And swept beyond the brink of Sense,
My soul was flung, and poised, and whirled,
Like to a planet chained and hurled
With solar lightning strong and tense.
Swift as communicated rays
That leap from severed suns a gloom
Within whose waste no suns illume,
The wingèd dream fulfilled its ways.
Through years reversed and lit again
I followed that unending chain
Wherein the suns are links of light;
Retraced through lineal, ordered spheres
The twisting of the threads of years
In weavings wrought of noon and night;
Through stars and deeps I watched the dream unroll,
Those folds that form the raiment of the soul.
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Enkindling dawns of memory,
Each sun had radiance to relume
A sealed, disused, and darkened room
Within the soul's immensity.
Their alien ciphers shown and lit,
I understood what each had writ
Upon my spirit's scroll;
Again I wore mine ancient lives,
And knew the freedom and the gyves
That formed and marked my soul.
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I delved in each forgotten mind,
The units that had builded me,
Whose deepnesses before were blind
And formless as infinity—
Knowing again each former world—
From planet unto planet whirled
Through gulfs that mightily divide
Like to an intervital sleep.
One world I found, where souls abide
Like winds that rest upon