Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose

by Clark Ashton Smith

(The first witch disappears and passes again shortly.)

FIRST WITCH:

Sister, what seest or what hearest thou?

SECOND WITCH:

I see

The ghost-white owl, with huge sulphureous eyes,

That veers in prone, unwhispered flight, and hear

The small shriek of the moon-adventuring mole,

Gripped in mid-graveyard.*** And I see

Where some wild shadow shakes, though the pale wind