Fungi from Yuggoth

I cannot tell why some things hold for me

A sense of unplumbed marvels to befall,

Or of a rift in the horizon's wall

Opening to worlds where only gods can be.

There is a breathless, vague expectancy,

As of vast ancient pomps I half recall,

Or wild adventures, uncorporeal,

Ecstasy-fraught, and as a day-dream free.

It is in sunsets and strange city spires,

Old villages and woods and misty downs,

South winds, the sea, low hills, and lighted towns,

Old gardens, half-heard songs, and the moon's fires.

But though its lure alone makes life worth living,

None gains or guesses what it hints at giving.