The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W  Chambers 1895
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2018-01-09

Robert W  Chambers published  The King in Yellow in 1895. This is a recording of one of the stories from that book, The Repairer of Reputations. He liked to introduce his stories with poetry. 

    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