The Unexplainable Couplet

“In a point of time, the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, was the first character of the Cthulhu Mythos to the make his appearance; this was in strongly Dunsanian tale, The Nameless City (1921), fashioned about the unexplainable couplet.” ‘That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die.’ Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 1, The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft