The Stepwise Palace - a FSVO sequence
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Figure C11 HOLLOW

We tread a fungous lawn as the wind dies.
The surface? No, but see a cavern vast,
A world inverse, with continental skies,
But not the shapes we know, for here the past
Of Earth survives: the saurians, the last
Of ancient Mu and of Atlantis proud.
Baluchitheria take their high repast
From ginkgo-trees. A twilight without cloud,
Low palaces beneath the starless heaven’s shroud.