The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF SATURN So did the neophyte that would gaze Into dead Pharaoh’s awful eyes Start from incalculable amaze Το clutch the initiate‘s place and prize. He bore the blistering thought aloft: It blazed in battle on his plume: With sage and warrior enfeofi’ed, He rushed alone through tower and tomb, The myriad men, the cohorts armed, Are shred like husks : the ensanguine brand Leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed Το fire the pyramid heaven-spanned Wherein dead Pharaoh sits and stares, Swathed in the wrappings of the tomb, With eyes whose horror flits and flares Like corpse~lightsglimmering in the gloom Till all’s a blaze, one roar of flame, Death universal, locked and linked :— Aha! one names the awful Name— The twin red planets are extinct. [A flame. [The lamp burn: out, and darkness covers all. [LEADER οι: THE CHORUS setretly removes hell-broth vase.