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    THE STAR-TREADER AND OTHER POEMS

    BY

    CLARK ASHTON SMITH


    A. M. ROBERTSON

    STOCKTON STREET AT UNION SQUARE
    SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

    MCMXII


    COPYRIGHT 1912
    BY
    A. M. ROBERTSON


    Philopolis Press
    San Francisco


    TO MY MOTHER




    CONTENTS


    NERO
    CHANT TO SIRIUS
    THE STAR-TREADER
    THE MORNING POOL
    THE NIGHT FOREST
    THE MAD WIND
    SONG TO OBLIVION
    MEDUSA
    ODE TO THE ABYSS
    THE SOUL OF THE SEA
    THE BUTTERFLY
    THE PRICE
    THE MYSTIC MEANING
    ODE TO MUSIC
    THE LAST NIGHT
    ODE ON IMAGINATION
    THE WIND AND THE MOON
    LAMENT OF THE STARS
    THE MAZE OF SLEEP
    THE WINDS
    THE MASK OF FORSAKEN GODS
    A SUNSET
    THE CLOUD-ISLANDS
    THE SNOW-BLOSSOMS
    THE SUMMER MOON
    THE RETURN OF HYPERION
    LETHE
    ATLANTIS
    THE UNREVEALED
    THE ELDRITCH DARK
    THE CHERRY SNOWS
    FAIRY LANTERNS
    NIRVANA
    THE NEMESIS OF SUNS
    WHITE DEATH
    RETROSPECT AND FORECAST
    SHADOW OF NIGHTMARE
   