{"id":5090,"date":"2009-08-14T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2009-10-22T09:01:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:01:44","slug":"the-last-enchanter-drinking-to-his-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/the-last-enchanter-drinking-to-his-shade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Enchanter: Drinking to His Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/\">Clark Ashton Smith<\/a> died in his sleep on this date in 1961, making the ides of August as black a date for Klarkash-Ton admirers as the ides of March ever were for the adherents of Gaius Julius Caesar. I raise a glass (though one not of Atlantean vintage, nor one imbued with more than common wizardry) to his shade. I am sure, somewhere, Robert E. Howard is doing the same, as well as Smith&#8217;s finest acolyte (and last of the courtly poets), <a href=\"http:\/\/donaldsidneyfryer.free.fr\/\">Donald Sidney-Fryer<\/a>. It is hard to choose from the enormity of CAS&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldritchdark.com\/writings\/poetry\/\">oeuvre<\/a><\/em> (over seven hundred poems), but I thought this one fitting:<\/p>\n<div id=\"heading\">\n<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ashes of Sunset<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Clark Ashton Smith<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On lands he shall not know, the splendor lies &#8212;<br \/>\nA pharos on some alienated shore,<br \/>\nIn foam and purple lost forevermore,<br \/>\nWhere dreams are kindled in remoter eyes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Who fares to find the sunset ere it fly,<br \/>\nTurning to light and fire the further west,<br \/>\nShall have the veils of twilight for his guest,<br \/>\nAnd all the falling of an ashen sky.<\/p>\n<p>Clark Ashton Smith always sought that furthest splendor; that dream-cloaked, westernmost shore. I hope he found it.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5091  aligncenter\" title=\"cas-1958\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cas-1958.jpg\" alt=\"cas-1958\" width=\"499\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cas-1958.jpg 499w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cas-1958-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Ashton Smith died in his sleep on this date in 1961, making the ides of August as black a date for Klarkash-Ton admirers as the ides of March ever were for the adherents of Gaius Julius Caesar. I raise a glass (though one not of Atlantean vintage, nor one imbued with more than common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,60,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors","category-sidney-fryer-donald","category-clark-ashton-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}