Cassilda's Song

Along the shore the cloud waves break,

The twin suns sink beneath the lake,

The shadows lengthen

                      In Carcosa.

 

Strange is the night where black stars rise,

And strange moons circle through the skies

But stranger still is

                      Lost Carcosa.

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,

Where flap the tatters of the King,

Must die unheard in

                      Dim Carcosa.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead,

Die thou unsung, as tears unshed

Shall dry and die in

                      Lost Carcosa.

Cassilda's Song in The King in Yellow,

                                           Act i, Scene 2

From The King In Yellow by Robert W. Chambers