The Star in the West

36 THE STAR IN THE WEST rapid and dazzling succession till the ideas engendered in our brains are sporting in an outburst of mental leap - frog . The following are a few : " Fleas kill us " with “ Aeschylus ” " Trough hock lees " " Sophocles " “ Globule us Aristobulus And here is a good example : Let me help Babu Chander Grish up ! As by a posset of Hunyadi Clear mind ! Was Soudan of the Mahdi Not cleared by Kitchener ? Ah , Tchhup ! Such nonsense for sound truth you dish up , Were I magician , no mere cadi , Not Samuel's ghost you'd make me wish up , Nor Saul's ( the mighty son of Kish ) up , But Ingersoll's or Bradlaugh's , pardie ! By spells and cauldron stews that squish up , Or purifying of the Nadi , Till Stradivarius or Amati Shriek in my stomach ! Sarasate , Such strains ! Such music as once Sadi Made Persia ring with ! I who fish up No such from soul may yet cry : Vade Retro Satanas ! Tom Bond Bishop !2 We have mentioned “ Why Jesus Wept ” as one of the most irregular of Crowley's poems , yet its irregu larities are regularly irregular throughout , bearing a similar relationship to a true poem like “ Rosa Mundi ” | The Sword of Song , vol . ii, p . 145 . * Ibid . vol . ii, p . 148. Browning's cacophony in “ The Flight of the Duchess " is truly extraordinary : “ Soul a stir up ” with " streaky syrup ” “ Went trickle ' ventricle Sperm oil “ turmoil “ Wreathy hop " “ Æthiop ” “ Matters equine " “ French weak wine ." 1) 12