The Star in the West

32 THE STAR IN THE WEST A curious Swinburnian strain of passion is found wedged in the satiric lines of “ Why Jesus Wept .” Percy , the youth flatulent with love , chants to his Angela - society --thus : To me she is The rosy incarnation of a kiss , The royal rapture of a young delight , The mazy music of virginity, Sun of the day , moon of the night , All , all to me ! 1 And again : Love , love , these raptures are like springtide rain Nestling among green leaves .2 One more example of the diversity of Crowley's pen , before we deal with his place in the history of poetry . In the " God -Eater we come across a most weird form of poetic imagination in the chants of Rupha the hag of Eternity : Crafty ! Crafty ! That is the omen . Fear not the foemen ! [ She rises up. Mine is the spoil Of the grimly toil . Gloomy , gloomy ! Ah ! but I laugh . He is but a fool . He has lost ! He is lost ! Take the staff ! Trace the rule Of the circle crossed ! 3 We have now seen , more or less , some of the chief influences which have exerted their sway over our poet's mind ; and I think we have shown him to be a 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 40 . | Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 39 . 3 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 135 .