Lovecraft, H P - Polaris

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Polaris

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 1918

Published December 1920 in The Philosopher, Vol. 1, No. 1 , p. 3-5.

Into the North Window of my chamber glows the Pole Star with uncanny light. All

through the long hellish hours of blackness it shines there. And in the autumn of the year,

when the winds from the north curse and whine, and the red-leaved trees of the swamp

mutter things to one another in the small hours of the morning under the horned waning

moon, I sit by the casement and watch that star. Down from the heights reels the

glittering Cassiopeia as the hours wear on, while Charles' Wain lumbers up from behind

the vapour-soaked swamp trees that sway in the night wind. Just before dawn Arcturus

winks ruddily from above the cemetary on the low hillock, and Coma Berenices

shimmers weirdly afar off in the mysterious east; but still the Pole Star leers down from

the same place in the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which

strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a

message to convey. Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep.

Well do I remember the night of the great Aurora, when over the swamp played the

shocking corruscations of the daemon light. After the beam came clouds, and then I slept.

And it was under a horned waning moon that I saw the city for the first time. Still and

somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow between strange peaks. Of ghastly

marble were its walls and its towers, its columns, domes, and pavements. In the marble

streets were marble pillars, the upper parts of which were carven into the images of grave

bearded men. The air was warm and stirred not. And overhead, scarce ten degrees from

the zenith, glowed that watching Pole Star. Long did I gaze on the city, but the day came

not. When the red Aldebaran, which blinked low in the sky but never set, had crawled a

quarter of the way around the horizon, I saw light and motion in the houses and the

streets. Forms strangely robed, but at once noble and familiar, walked abroad and under

the horned waning moon men talked wisdom in a tongue which I understood, though it

was unlike any language which I had ever known. And when the red Aldebaran had

crawled more than half-way around the horizon, there were again darkness and silence.

When I awaked, I was not as I had been. Upon my memory was graven the vision of the

city, and within my soul had arisen another and vaguer recollection, of whose nature I

was not then certain. Thereafter, on the cloudy nights when I could not sleep, I saw the

city often; sometimes under the hot, yellow rays of a sun which did not set, but which

wheeled low in the horizon. And on the clear nights the Pole Star leered as never before.

Gradually I came to wonder what might be my place in that city on the strange plateau

betwixt strange peaks. At first content to view the scene as an all-observant uncorporeal

presence, I now desired to define my relation to it, and to speak my mind amongst the

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