"Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa.
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa."
"Cassilda's Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2
from "The King in Yellow", Robert W. Chambers, 1895
The fictional city of Carcosa was invented by Ambrose Bierce in 1886, and used by both Chambers and H.P. Lovecraft in their later works.
