Clark Ashton Smith

“ Of love and sorrow, loss and gain,
One certain truth my heart derives—
Though Beauty passes, this I know,
From change and death, this verity:
Her spirit lives eternally—
'Tis but her forms that come and go. ”

“ Are their own prize and recompense.
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