NECROMANCY

by Clark Ashton Smith

My heart is made a necromancer's glass,

Where homeless forms and exile phantoms teem;

Where faces of forgotten sorrows gleam,

And dead despairs archaic peer and pass:

Grey longings of some weary heart that was.

Possess me, and the multiple, supreme,

Unwildered hope and star-emblazoned dream

Of questing armies.... Ancient queen and lass,