Lovecraft, H P - Ex Oblivione

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Ex Oblivione

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 1920

Published March 1921 in The United Amateur, Vol. 20, No. 4, p. 59-60.

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to

madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of

their victims body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of

the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted

woods.

Once when the wind was soft and scented I heard the south calling, and sailed endlessly

and languorously under strange stars.

Once when the gentle rain fell I glided in a barge down a sunless stream under the earth

till I reached another world of purple twilight, iridescent arbours, and undying roses.

And once I walked through a golden valley that led to shadowy groves and ruins, and

ended in a mighty wall green with antique vines, and pierced by a little gate of bronze.

Many times I walked through that valley, and longer and longer would I pause in the

spectral half-light where the giant trees squirmed and twisted grotesquely, and the grey

ground stretched damply from trunk to trunk, some times disclosing the mould-stained

stones of buried temples. And alway the goal of my fancies was the mighty vine-grown

wall with the little gate of bronze therein.

After a while, as the days of waking became less and less bearable from their greyness

and sameness, I would often drift in opiate peace through the valley and the shadowy

groves, and wonder how I might seize them for my eternal dwelling-place, so that I need

no more crawl back to a dull world stript of interest and new colours. And as I looked

upon the little gate in the mighty wall, I felt that beyond it lay a dream-country from

which, once it was entered, there would be no return.

So each night in sleep I strove to find the hidden latch of the gate in the ivied antique

wall, though it was exceedingly well hidden. And I would tell myself that the realm

beyond the wall was not more lasting merely, but more lovely and radiant as well.

Then one night in the dream-city of Zakarion I found a yellowed papyrus filled with the

thoughts of dream-sages who dwelt of old in that city, and who were too wise ever to be

born in the waking world. Therein were written many things concerning the world of

dream, and among them was lore of a golden valley and a sacred grove with temples, and

a high wall pierced by a little bronze gate. When I saw this lore, I knew that it touched on

the scenes I had haunted, and I therefore read long in the yellowed papyrus.

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