Clark Ashton Smith,
Ebony and Crystal — Dissonance
(1922)
“ All, all are in thy dreadful fugue, O Life,Thy dark, malign and monstrous music, spunIn hell, from a delirious Satan's dream!***O! dissonance primordial and supreme—The moan, the thunder, evermore at strife,Beneath the unheeding silence of the sun! ”
