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The Phantagraph

All Poetry Issue

Vol. 6 June 1937 No. 2

Forbidden Books
By Robert W. Lowndes

No earthly metal, this, that clasps these ancient tomes,
That crawls and writhes beneath the gloved hands that seek
Their pages to uncover. Unlocked, the noxious reek
Of alien corruption, glyphs in multichromes
Upon the curious pages, faint with human scent
Of some once-lovely skin, blood-drawn caricatures
Of things that just evade the grasp, whose sight conjures
Malefic wanderings, and strange, dark passions blent
With memories grown dim, of blasphemies which sleep
Within, or drawn apart, and that which never dies,
Assails the senses of the reader. *** There was one
Who found the cursed volumes, hidden from the sun,
And read therein. *** he flung them back into the deep
Sea's self and evermore mad horror filled his eyes.

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The Phantagraph All Poetry Issue Vol. 6 June 1937 No. 2 Forbidden Books By Robert W. Lowndes No earthly metal, this, that clasps these ancient tomes, That crawls and writhes beneath the gloved hands that seek Their pages to uncover. Unlocked, the noxious reek Of alien corruption, glyphs in multichromes Upon the curious pages, faint with human scent Of some once-lovely skin, blood-drawn caricatures Of things that just evade the grasp, whose sight conjures Malefic wanderings, and strange, dark passions blent With memories grown dim, of blasphemies which sleep Within, or drawn apart, and that which never dies, Assails the senses of the reader. *** There was one Who found the cursed volumes, hidden from the sun, And read therein. *** he flung them back into the deep Sea's self and evermore mad horror filled his eyes.