Ebony and Crystal/In Saturn

by Clark Ashton Smith

IN SATURN

Upon the seas of Saturn I have sailedTo isles of high, primeval amarant,Where the flame-tongued sonorous flow'rs enchantThe hanging surf to silence: All engrailed

With ruby-colored pearls, the golden shoreAllured me; but as one whom spells restrain,For blind horizons of the sombre main,And harbors never known, my singing prore

I set forthrightly: Formed of fire and brass,Immenser skies divided, deep on deepBefore me,—till, above the darkling foam,

With dome on cloudless adamantine dome,Black peaks no peering seraph deems to pass,Rose up from realms ineffable as Sleep!