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"I have failed in my duties

and betrayed the marble city of Olathoë;

I have proven false to Alos, my friend and commander.

They say there is no land of Lomar, save in my nocturnal imaginings;

that in the land where the Pole Star shines high

and red Aldebaran crawls low around the horizon,

there has been naught save ice and snow for thousands of years"

"Polaris" by H. P. Lovecraft