The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITE OF JUPITER Mingle in the laughing measure, Hand and lip to breast and thigh! In enthusiastic pleasure Grasp the solitary treasure! Laughs the untiring ecstasy! Sisters! Sisters! Raise your voices In the inspired divine delight! Now the sun sets; new the choice is Who rebels or who rejoices, Murmuring to the mystic night. 10! Evoel Circle splendid! Dance, ye maids serene and subtle! Clotho's task is fairly ended. Atropos, thy power is ended ! Ho, Lachesis! ply thy shuttle! Weave the human dance together With the life of rocks and trees ! Let the blue delirious weather Bind all spirits in one tether, Overwhelming ecstasies! Io! Evoe! 1 faint’ I fall, Swoon in purple light; the grape Drowns my spirit in its thrall. Love me, love me over all, Spirit in the spirit shape! All is one ! Ι murmur, Distant Sounds the shout, Evoe, Evoe ! Evoe, Iacche! Soft, insistent Like to echo’s voice persistent :— Hail! Agave! Autonoe! [TYPHON goes up stage. AGAVE Evoe, Ho! Iacche! Hail, Ο Hail! Praise him! What dreams are these? 35