ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

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FIRST PUBLISHED IN
1895

PREPARED AND MODERNIZED BY OBSCURA CLASSICS

THE KING IN YELLOW
IS DEDICATED
TO
MY BROTHER

“Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind 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.