The City of the Titans by CAS

The City of the Titans

I saw a city in a lonely land:
Foursquare, it fronted upon gulfs of fire;
Behind, the night of Erebus hung entire;
And deserts gloomed or glimmered on each hand.

by Clark Ashton Smith, 1915

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