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Commissioned work from the poem: The Hashish-Eater by Clark Ashton Smith.

Then I reach a room where caryatides,
Carven in the form of tall, voluptous Titan women,
Surround a throne of flowering ebony
Where creep a vine of crystal. On the throne,
There lolls a wan, enormous Worm, whose bulk,
Tumid with the rottenness of kings,
Oθrflows its arms with fold on creasθd fold
Of fat obscenely bloating. Open-mouthed
He leans, and from his throat a score of tongues,
Depending like to wreaths of torpid vipers,
Drivel with phosphorescent slime, that runs
Down all his lenght of soft and monstrous folds,
And creeping among the flow`rs of ebony,
Lends them the Life of tiny serpents. Now,
Ere the Horror ope those red and lashless slits
Of Eyes that draw the gnat and midge...

Description

Commissioned work from the poem: The Hashish-Eater by Clark Ashton Smith.

Then I reach a room where caryatides,
Carven in the form of tall, voluptous Titan women,
Surround a throne of flowering ebony
Where creep a vine of crystal. On the throne,
There lolls a wan, enormous Worm, whose bulk,
Tumid with the rottenness of kings,
Oθrflows its arms with fold on creasθd fold
Of fat obscenely bloating. Open-mouthed
He leans, and from his throat a score of tongues,
Depending like to wreaths of torpid vipers,
Drivel with phosphorescent slime, that runs
Down all his lenght of soft and monstrous folds,
And creeping among the flow`rs of ebony,
Lends them the Life of tiny serpents. Now,
Ere the Horror ope those red and lashless slits
Of Eyes that draw the gnat and midge...