Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose

by Clark Ashton Smith

Blooms the glorious land serene,—

Flaming shields of dawns between;

And the rapt white flowers suffice

To illume

With their bright eyes

Fluctuant ecstatic gloom

’Twixt the fallen emerald sun,

And the unrisen azure one.

But the season of the night

Comes in all the suns’ despite;