How dense the glooms of Death, impervious
To aught of old memorial light! How strait
The sunless road, suspended, separate,
That leads to later birth! Untremulous
With any secret morn of stars, to us
The Past is closed as with division great
Of planet-girdling seas - unknown its gate,
Beyond the mouths of shadows cavernous.
Oh! may it be that Death in kindness strips
The soul of memory's raiment, rendering blind
Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal,
As when on mountain peaks a glance behind
Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips
Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall?
The Unrevealed
Clark Ashton Smith
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Poem topics: birth, fear, light, memory, soul, kindness, great, knowledge, unknown, mountain, blind, secret, vision, cavernous, death, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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