The Mad Wind

by

Clark Ashton Smith


What hast thou seen, O wind,

Of beauty or of terror,

Surpassing, denied to us,

That with precipitate wings,

Mad and ecstatical,

Thou spurnest the hollows and trees

That offer thee refuge of peace,

And findest within the sky

No safety or respite

From the memory of thy vision?


(1912)



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