The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITE OF MERCURY Worship, and liberty, and love. So be my grave without a name That earth may swallow up my shame! [50R. GEMINI ;5103/5 her saddest yet swiflest melody. * [A þause. VIRGO. O, who art Thou, most lovely form that killeth me with the pleasure of Thy Vision? MERCURY. 1 am thyself—that which is of thyself and dependent upon thyself. VIRGO. Sister and Brother Gemini, kneel ye before the greatest of all Gods. FR. GEMINI. Alas, Brother! 15 the Speech greater than the Silence? VIRGO. I. Brethren, kneel ye before the greatest of all Gods I [None abey. MERCURY. I. Silence. . . . Thou hast no followers, Brother. SOR. GEMINI. Behold thine handmaiden! Where thou goest I will go; thy people shall be my people and thy God my God I [She walks ta the throne. MERCURY. Peace upon thee, beloved! . . . But the Brethren say sooth. Even Mercury liveth not for ever. [He recites. The light streams stronger through the lamps of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas: its icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed? Their light dismayed * Scherzo: Tschaikowski. 105