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13 Providence. Dos Caballeros Se Encuentran A Medianoche (The Arkham Sampler, 1948)
13 Providence. Dos Caballeros Se Encuentran A Medianoche (The Arkham Sampler, 1948)
H. P. L.: The night, sir, does for Providence and all things old
something that takes from them the chilling cold
of newness and the marks of what some poor, benighted
men
incline to calling progress. Then,
too, there was for me the knowledge in this place
you would not choose a sunlit hour to show your face.
E. A. P.: True, there are some places that I would not go—
and they grow more in number; one year it is Brick Row
torn down, and on another a house I knew,
but there remain to such as us a few,
as always—Helen’s home, and others on old Prospect
Street,
Benefit and College Hill—these byways knew my feet
long ago, as once I knew familiar walls and floors
long since away. You, too, pause at once known doors;
There was a house on Angell Street you sought in vain
one night, and on Barnes, at number ten, and again
on College, number sixty-six—
old things, old places—nothing sticks
to us like these. I followed you another time; you went
along the Seekonk where,
a child, you made obeisance to ancient gods of earth
and air.
My friend, you see,
we share a common loyalty.
H. P. L.: How long ago that was! Since then, you knew,
others took their place—Dagon, Yog-Sothoth, Cthulhu.