Poem: “A Dead City” by Clark Ashton Smith

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A Dead City

The twilight reigns above the fallen noon
Within an ancient land, whose after-time
Lies like a shadow o’er its ruined prime.
Like rising mist the night increases soon
Round shattered palaces, ere yet the moon
On mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb,
And touch with whiteness of sepulchral rime
The desert where a city’s bones are strewn.

She comes at last; unburied, thick, they show
In all the hoary nakedness of stone.
From out a shadow like the lips of Death
Issues a wind, that through the stillness blown,
Cries like a prophet’s ghost with wailing breath
The weirds of finished and forgotten woe.

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