THE EQUINOX
47. Where I am these are not.
48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for
them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler.
49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves
that perish. Be they damned & dead! Amen. (This is of
the 4: there is a fifth who is invisible, & therein am I as a
babe in an egg.)
50. Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the
red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green.
51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than
eyesight.
52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of
the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of
death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of
the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these
vices are my service; ye do well, & I will reward you here
and hereafter.
53. Fear not, o prophet, when these words are said, thou
shalt not be sorry. Thou art emphatically my chosen; and
blessed are the eyes that thou shalt look upon with gladness.
But I will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee
shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up.
54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou
meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest:
they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The
stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or
value!
55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English
Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them
unto. ,
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