Clark Ashton Smith,
Ebony and Crystal — Remembered Light
(1922)
“ Full of an umber twilight,I beheld that larger world;Bright was the twilight, sharp like ethereal wineAbove, but low in the clefts it thickened,Dull as with duskier tincture.Like whimsical wings outspread but unstirring,Flowers that seemed spirits of the twilightThat must pass with its passing—Too fragile for day or for darkness,Fed the dusk with more delicate hues than its own ”
