{"id":1086,"date":"2008-01-11T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T03:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/on-hpl\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T23:04:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T03:04:04","slug":"on-hpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/11\/on-hpl\/","title":{"rendered":"On H.P.L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without any further commentary, I present <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clark_Ashton_Smith\">Clark Ashton Smith<\/a>, writing about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._P._Lovecraft\">H. P. Lovecraft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>To Howard Phillips Lovecraft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lover of hills and fields and towns antique,<br \/>\nHow hast thou wandered hence<br \/>\nOn ways not found before,<br \/>\nBeyond the dawnward spires of Providence?<br \/>\nHast thou gone forth to seek<br \/>\nSome older bourn than these&#8211;<br \/>\nSome Arkham of the prime and central wizardries?<br \/>\nOr with familiar felidae,<br \/>\nDost now some new and secret wood explore,<br \/>\nA little past the senses&#8217; farther wall&#8211;<br \/>\nWhere spring and sunset charm the eternal path<br \/>\nFrom Earth to ether in dimensions nemoral?<br \/>\nOr has the Silver Key<br \/>\nOpened perchance for thee<br \/>\nWonders and dreams and worlds ulterior?<br \/>\nHast thou gone home to Ulthar or to Pnath?<br \/>\nHas the high king who reigns in dim Kadath<br \/>\nCalled back his courtly, sage ambassador?<br \/>\nOr darkling Cthulhu sent<br \/>\nThe Sign which makes thee now a councilor<br \/>\nWithin that foundered fortress of the deep<br \/>\nWhere the Old Ones stir in sleep,<br \/>\nTill mighty tremblors shake their slumbering continent?<br \/>\nLo! in this little interim of days,<br \/>\nHow far they feet are sped<br \/>\nUpon the fabulous and mooted ways<br \/>\nWhere walk the mythic dead!<br \/>\nFor us the grief, for us the mystery. . . .<br \/>\nAnd yet thou art not gone<br \/>\nNor given wholly unto dream and dust:<br \/>\nFor, even upon<br \/>\nThis lonely western hill of Averoigne<br \/>\nThey flesh has never visited,<br \/>\nI meet some wise and sentient wrath of thee,<br \/>\nSome undeparting presence, gracious and august.<br \/>\nMore luminous for thee the vernal grass,<br \/>\nMore magically dark the Druid stone<br \/>\nAnd in the mind thou art for ever shown<br \/>\nAs in a magic glass;<br \/>\nAnd from the spirit&#8217;s page thy runes can never pass.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Without any further commentary, I present Clark Ashton Smith, writing about H. P. Lovecraft: To Howard Phillips Lovecraft Lover of hills and fields and towns antique, How hast thou wandered hence On ways not found before, Beyond the dawnward spires of Providence? 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