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Smith, Clark Ashton - Remoteness.txt
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Remoteness
by Clark Ashton Smith
There are days when all the beauty of the world is dim and strange; when the
sunlight about me seems to fall on a land remoter than the poles of the moon.
The roses in the garden surprise me, like the monstrous orchids of unknown
colour, that blossom in planets beyond Aldebaran. And I am startled by the
yellow and purple leaves of October, as if the veil of some tremendous and awful
mystery were half-withdrawn for the moment. In such hours as these, O heart of
my heart, I fear to touch thee, I avoid thy caresses, dreading that thou wilt
vanish as a dream at dawn, or that I shall find thee a phantom, the spectre of
one who died and was forgotten many thousand years ago, in a far-off land on
which the sun no longer shines.