A quick bonus episode to give you a little regio, from the poetry of Clark Ashton Smith. The recording was released through Librivox by Rosslyn Carlyle. Thanks to her and her production team.

Above its domes the gulfs accumulate.
Far up, the sea-gales blare their bitter screed:

But here the buried waters take no heed—
Deaf, and with welded lips pressed down by weight
Of the upper ocean. Dim, interminate,
In cities over-webbed with somber weed,
Where galleons crumble and the krakens breed,
The slow tide coils through sunken court and gate.

From out the ocean’s phosphor-starry dome,
A ghostly light is dubitably shed

On altars of a goddess garlanded
With blossoms of some weird and hueless vine;
And, wingéd, fleet, through skies beneath the foam,
Like silent birds the sea-things dart and shine.

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