"The Memnons of the Night" by Clark Ashton Smith

This could be understood as a prose poem rather than a story fragment.

The picture used is "statues of Memnon". This file comes from Wellcome Images (https://wellcomecollection.org/, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (https://web.archive.org/web/20150815054440/http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2014/WTP055466.htm).

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