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The cool, grey city of love.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world
Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
("To Science")

As a breath on glass, -
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.
("The Face of the Skies")

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera")

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous ...
("A Wine of Wizardry")

What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
("The Testimony of the Suns")