“Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me with the million-colored sun
Of secret worlds incredible, and take
Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,
Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume
The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.”

— Clark Ashton Smith

Opening lines of "The Hashish Eater; or, the Apocalypse of Evil" (1920)

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American author 1893–1961

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