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"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"; Act 1, Scene 2 of the play "The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers