Celephais by H.P. Lovecraft

"...Kuranes had previously entered that abyss only at night, and wondered what it  would look like by day; so he watched anxiously as the column approached its  brink. Just as they galloped up the rising ground to the precipice a golden  glare came somewhere out of the west and hid all the landscape in effulgent  draperies. The abyss was a seething chaos of roseate and cerulean splendour, and  invisible voices sang exultantly as the knightly entourage plunged over the edge  and floated gracefully down past glittering clouds and silvery coruscations.  Endlessly down the horsemen floated, their chargers pawing the aether as if  galloping over golden sands; and then the luminous vapours spread apart to  reveal a greater brightness, the brightness of the city Celephais, and the sea  coast beyond, and the snowy peak overlooking the sea, and the gaily painted 
galleys that sail out of the harbour toward distant regions where the sea meets  the sky. 
And Kuranes reigned thereafter over Ooth-Nargai and all the neighboring regions  of dream, and held his court alternately in Celephais and in the cloud-fashioned  Serannian. He reigns there still, and will reign happily for ever, though below  the cliffs at Innsmouth the channel tides played mockingly with the body of a  tramp who had stumbled through the half-deserted village at dawn; played  mockingly, and cast it upon the rocks by ivy-covered Trevor Towers..."
Celephais
Celephais
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Celephais

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