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  ASTROPHOBOS

  Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

  Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

  ASTROPHOBOS

  In the Midnight heaven's burning

  Through the ethereal deeps afar

  Once I watch'd with restless yearning

  An alluring aureate star;

  Ev'ry eve aloft returning

  Gleaming nigh the Arctic Car.

  Mystic waves of beauty blended

  With the gorgeous golden rays

  Phantasies of bliss descended

  In a myrrh'd Elysian haze.

  In the lyre-born chords extended

  Harmonies of Lydian lays.

  And (thought I) lies scenes of pleasure,

  Where the free and blessed dwell,

  And each moment bears a treasure,

  Freighted with the lotos-spell,

  And there floats a liquid measure

  From the lute of Israfel.

  There (I told myself) were shining

  Worlds of happiness unknown,

  Peace and Innocence entwining

  By the Crowned Virtue's throne;

  Men of light, their thoughts refining

  Purer, fairer, than my own.

  Thus I mus'd when o'er the vision

  Crept a red delirious change;

  Hope dissolving to derision,

  Beauty to distortion strange;

  Hymnic chords in weird collision,

  Spectral sights in endless range....

  Crimson burn'd the star of madness

  As behind the beams I peer'd;

  All was woe that seem'd but gladness

  Ere my gaze with Truth was sear'd;

  Cacodaemons, mir'd with madness,

  Through the fever'd flick'ring leer'd....

  Now I know the fiendish fable

  The the golden glitter bore;

  Now I shun the spangled sable

  That I watch'd and lov'd before;

  But the horror, set and stable,

  Haunts my soul forevermore!

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