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Smith, Clark Ashton - A Phantasy.txt
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A Phantasy
by Clark Ashton Smith
I have dreamt of an unknown land-a land remote in ulterior time, and alien space
not ascertainable; the desert of a long-completed past, upon which has settled
the bleak irrevocable silence of infinitude; where all is ruined save the stone
of tombs and cenotaphs: and where the sole peoples are the kingless, uncounted
tribes of the subterranean dead.
Above this land of my dream, citied with tombs and cenotaphs, a red and
smouldering sun maintains a spectral day, in alternation with an ashen moon
through the black ether where the stars have long since perished. And through
the hush of the consummation of time, above the riven monuments and crumbled
records of alien history, flit in the final twilight the mysterious wings of
seraphim, sent to fulfill ineffable errands, or confer with demons of the abyss:
and black, gigantic angels, newly returned form missions of destruction, pause
amid the sepulchers to sift from their gloomy and tremendous vans the pale ashes
of annihilated stars.