"In Lemuria" by Clark Ashton Smith

Rather curiously, there doesn't seem to be any agreement on the pronunciation of Lemuria. Watch a dozen different videos about it, get a dozen different pronunciations. I get it that it's an old term from before recording technology existed, so the intended pronunciation by the guy who created it may not be known, but can we not at *some* point come to a common consensus about it? Oy.

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Rememberest thou? Enormous gongs of stone
Were stricken, and the storming trumpeteers
Acclaimed my deed to answering tides of spears,
And spoke the names of monsters overthrown—
Griffins whose angry gold, and fervid store
Of sapphires wrenched from mountain-plungèd mines—
Carnelians, opals, agates, almandines,
I brought to thee some scarlet eve of yore.

In the wide fane that shrined thee Venus-wise,
The fallen clamors died... I heard the tune
Of tiny bells of pearl and melanite,
Hung at thy knees, and arms of dreamt delight;
And placed my wealth before thy fabled eyes,
Pallid and pure as jaspers from the moon.
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The picture used is of a lemur! Lemuria is literally named after lemurs, which existed on Madagascar and in India (but not in Africa or the Middle East), and Philip Sclater concluded (in 1864) there must have been a land mass between the two where lemurs originated, but which has since sunk beneath the Indian Ocean. This was, obviously, before we figured out about plate tectonics and continental drift.

To follow along: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/292/in-lemuria

I've been waiting forever for an opportunity to use that effect on the title and author. There are still a couple other effects in my editing software that I'm waiting for the right image for them to work with, but good to finally get this one out there.