H. P. Lovecraft

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To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany

Written: November 1919

First Published in The Tryout, Vol. 5, No. 11 (November 1919), Pages 11-12

 As when the sun above a dusky wold
 Springs into sight, and turns the gloom to gold,
 Lights with his magic beams the dew-deck’d bow’rs,
 And wakes to life the gay responsive flow’rs;
 So now o’er realms where dark’ning dulness lies,
 In solar state see shining Plunkett rise!
 Monarch of Fancy! whose ethereal mind
 Mounts fairy peaks, and leaves the throng behind;
 Whose soul untainted bursts the bounds of space,
 And leads to regions of supernal grace;
 Can any praise thee with too strong a tone,
 Who in this age of folly gleam’st alone?
 Thy quill, Dunsany, with an art divine
 Recalls the gods to each deserted shrine;
 From mystic air a novel pantheon makes,
 And with new spirits fills the meads and brakes;
 With thee we wander thro’ primeval bow’rs,
 For thou hast brought earth’s childhood back, and ours!
 How leaps the soul, with sudden bliss increas’d,
 When led by thee to lands beyond the East!
 Sick of this sphere, in crime and conflict old,
 We yearn for wonders distant and untold;
 O’er Homer’s page a second time we pore,
 And rack our brains for gleams of infant lore:
 But all in vain—for valiant tho’ we strive
 No common means these pictures can revive.
 Then dawns Dunsany with celestial light,
 And fulgent visions break upon our sight:
 His barque enchanted each sad spirit bears
 To shores of gold, beyond the reach of cares.
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