th of Shaddam He withdrew into himself increasingly during those years spending day after day on the beach, sheltered from the SUB beneath the crumbling hull of his old racing boat WINDMASTER This dweller by the sea-walls sheer Dreaming beneath his rotting shell, Ponders a prophecy of fear He dreams a great loss, a long year Of distant fields where heroes fell, This dweller by the sea-walls sheer He dreams of arts* who sweeps a sere World, whose desert sight and demon spell Ponders a prophecy of fear He dreams a child who carves a peer f Heats mental toil the nephew's knelU This dweller by the sea walls sheer He dreams shadow-heirs, never near ** Wkle his mother, bearing magic hell,tf Ponders a prophecy of fear He dreams &K star he marked to steer His ship now steers his life as well, This dweller by the sea walls sheer Ponders a prophecy of fear *Paul \treides t Hie death ot Baron Harkormen at the hands of the child Alia fThufir Hawai according to popular tradition a traitor to the Atreides was supposed to have warned Feyd Rdutha not to challenge Paul By incorporating this legend Vizhyarad shows lhat she was not present at that climactic scene since we now ki uw that Hawai killed himself shortly before the challenge was issued **Fennng was impotent ncapablc of begetting heirs flThis line is the mosl obscure in all of Vizhyarad s work It has been suggested that Fennng s molher was the R M Gams Helen Mohiam and if this conjecture is correct then the magic hell must refer to the neural stimulating box she earned for the gom jabbar In any case Fennng would have had persona) experience with the test of the gom jabbar The premier achievements of Galach poet ry from 10000 to 10200 were lyrical, and as we have seen, often marked by a note of warning Obviously poetry did not cease to be written in Galach when the Atreides rose to power, despite the changes in taste of form and language that the ascension produced As the final example illustrates poetry in Galach continued but that on the central worlds took an elegaic tone, expressing mut ed and bomber emotions ATREIDEAN PERIOD Paul Atreides sei zure of the throne in 10196 marked the greatest change the empire had known for a hundred centuries Disruption of this magm tude leads nrvariably to changes in the arts, but the effects of the new ruling house on poetry were not to be feft for several decades The upheavals both physical and spiritual that Paul s Jihad caused were almost un thinkable House Comno had reigned for so long that its existence took on the status of a natural law The fall of Shdddam shocked many of the foremost writers into a silence from which they never recovered For this reason, few poets have productive careers bridging the two dynasties The writers of the Atreidean period were new, as were their forms and their language Muad Dib s Impenum firmly concentrated political and economic power The center of empire was fixed on Arrakis with a solidity that Kaitain had never experienced Creators of culture flocked to Arrakis adorning the capital planet with the pick of the talents of IMPERIAL POETRY 342 IMPERIAL POETRY the inhabited worlds Yet Arrakis was in many ways a much more provincial place than even the worlds those artists and poets had left.