Clark Ashton Smith

“ Nor Earth my tread where trampling years have stood.
ARTEMIS
Time hath grown cold
Toward beauty loved of old.
The gods must quake
When dreams and hopes forsake
The heart of man,
And disillusion's ban,
More chill than stone,
Rears till the former throne
Of loveliness
Is dark and tenantless. ”

“ New hearths to warm us from the night,
Till, banished thence, we pass in flight
While all the flames of dream expire.
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