| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | A Dream of Beauty | | By Clark Ashton Smith |
| | | I DREAMED that each most lovely, perfect thing | |
| That Nature hath, of sound, and form, and hue— | |
| The winds, the grass, the light-concentering dew, | |
| The gleam and swiftness of the sea-bird’s wing; | |
| Blueness of sea and sky, and gold of storm | 5 |
| Transmuted by the sunset, and the flame | |
| Of autumn-colored leaves, before me came, | |
| And, meeting, merged to one diviner form. | |
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| Incarnate Beauty ’twas, whose spirit thrills | |
| Through glaucous ocean and the greener hills, | 10 |
| And in the cloud-bewildered peaks is pent. | |
| Like some descended star she hovered o’er, | |
| But as I gazed, in doubt and wonderment, | |
| Mine eyes were dazzled, and I saw no more. | | | | |
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