Life is a tale half told,
Love is a broken song;
Beauty, besought so long
Is a legend lost and old.
Winter and silence and woe
Have come, like the end of all:
Slowly the last leaves fall
At sunset over the snow.
Here, on the darkening wold,
In the bleak wind blown from space,
I recall thy fugitive grace,
And sigh for thy hair's lost gold.
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Remembered: Clark Ashton Smith Works
RandomClark Ashton Smith was a poet, sculptor, painter, and horror and science fiction writer. Through his writing career he wrote under many pseudonyms such as Timeus Gaylord, Klarkash-Ton, Cristophe des Laurieres, and Clergio Herrero. Clark was apart...
