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1947 · PDF PAGE 5

The Last Ritual

…in bridal dress (Spheperdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In the moon, of the woods, on the marble mount, The dimpled dawn of the amber fount ! Dip the purple of passionate prayer In the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare, The soul that startles in eyes of blue To watch thy wantoness weeping through The tangled grove, the gnarled bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soul And body and brain -come over the sea, (Io Pan ! Io Pan !) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man ! my man ! Come wi…

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1947 · PDF PAGE 10

The Last Ritual

…true god that is upon the surface of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation to generation, thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in the temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto men. Oh Sons of the Lion and the Snake ! with all thy saints we worthily commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come. May their e…

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1947 · PDF PAGE 7

The Last Ritual

… not faith, while in life, upon death ; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy ; nor do I demand ought in sacrifice. My incense is of resinous woods and gums ; and there is no blood therein : because of my hair the trees of Eternity. My colour is black to the blind, but the blue and gold are

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