Land of Zar

In dreamland, a place where dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten. Viewed from the sea, it has sloping meadows and lordly terraces of tree-studded verdure, showing here and there the gleaming white roofs and colonnades of strange temples. Basil Elton glimpsed there many things he had once seen through the mists beyond the horizon and in the phosphorescent depths of ocean. There too were forms and fantasies more splendid than any that Elton had ever known; the visions of young poets who died in want before the world could learn of what they had seen and dreamed. But he who sets foot on Zar may nevermore return to his native shore. [HPL White (online text)]

From the Southern Sea, Randolph Carter recognised the templed terraces of Zar, abode of forgotten dreams. Later, while sailing from Dylath-Leen to Oriab, Randolph Carter's ship encountered a ship with violet sails bound for Zar, in the land of forgotten dreams, with bulbs of strange coloured lilies for cargo. [Kadath (online text)]

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