THE RITES OF ELEUSIS
When the sun sinks, and royal rays
Of moonrise flash across the day‘s.
[He rise: and/"aces altar.
I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold !
From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold.
I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light;
Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night.
Yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car,
In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star.
I have risen!
I am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold,
I the first—born of the Mother in her ecStasy of old.
Lo! I come to face the dweller in the sacred snake of Khem;
Come to face the Babe and Lion, come to measure force with them!
Ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth’s before the Sun,
As the earth’s before the sunset, and the God and I are One.
I who entered in a Fool, gain the God by clean endeavour;
I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever.
[He lurus and falls dasþing SOL'S feel.
All þmsz'mte
themselves in
adoration.
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solar?ששחה
[SOL in ARIES recites
:
The world’s great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn ;
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
A brighter Hellas rears its mountains
From waves serener far;
A new Peneus rolls his fountains
Against the morning star.
Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep
Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep.
* Papillon: Bohm.