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Page 1 of 11907 · PDF PAGE 138
…hip under the name of Public Opinion. Every class has its own opinion, for are we not a free country? London has its “ Liza of Lambeth ” set, its Marie Corelli set, its Arthur Wing Pinero set, its Geo e Bernard Shaw set, its Sir William Crooks set, its Royal smart set, its Lord Kelvin set, its individual pleuure seekers, its perverts, its literary, artistic, religious, and philosophical specialists. It is a hydra-headed monster, this London Opinion, but we should not be at all surprised to see an almost unparalleled event, namely, everyone of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…h your father’s fancy hats: You know more about salvation than the Reverend Robert Rats. Well, you have most certainly met an unpleasant set of people, ex claimed the big man. Can’t we be a bit cheerful for a change? The night wears on: we must part. I think you would like my Gipsy girl, said Denzil, without scruple or difiidence. If she’s a sane clean human being, we shall. So Arthur Gray voiced the general feeling. Without further debate he set to. LA GITANA YOUR hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 87
…ve had our equilibrium crowned by that supreme glory of humanity, realization of our identity with the great and holy Tao." Wherewith he set aside no less than three hundred and sixty-five days in every year, and one extra day every fourth year, as days of special rejoicing.
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…vangelists, apostles All singing like a lot of throstles All out of tune with one another, And every one a Plymouth Brother, With praise set heaven in a whirl. Up slinks the poor bedevilled Earl, Saved after all! The grateful tears Course down his cheeks for several years. But when he pulls himself together And gets accustomed to the weather He wants to poke his fingers in To see if God is genuine. Too soon be stripped (this cunning clod !) Gilt off the gingerbread of God; And sipping His nepenthe clear, Sniffed “ Bah! plain gin and gingerbeer” …
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…k. He sent the demons of the dusk To ramp and rage about the links To tease me—Me, the stony Sphinx! I smiled; I bent them to my will; I set them dancing deosil, And singing with seraphic glee “There is none other God than He.” The devil saw that he had failed. He came back very draggle-tailed; And, poised above me in the air, Whined “Mr. Sphinx, now, is it fair? My business is to rack the bones Of saints like you and Mr. Jones! I’m paid to accuse the brethren, sir!" “ I do not blame you, Lucifer. I take my pleasure in your frown Because you ‘r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…l those below the grade of Lords of the Absence of Paths in the Abyss of the Great Gulf Fixed will kindly leave the Court. I will myself set the example. [Exeunt Bonus and BOWLEY :011'. Bowie]. Your method of keeping silence is a good one. Dialogue is the best form, after all. But hush! who comes? Enter the YONLY YEATS, with druid apple-blossom in his hair, and the druid casting-net qf the stars in one hand. Doe: his turn and exit. Boner. To continue—True! And saying “ true,” let us discuss “truth.” In the lower worlds, where are we? Take this …
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…h! from Basil. “I hitched it into verse and good,” said the big man. But as it ’s a tale with a moral, please imagine yourselves to be a set of children. I wrote it for them. Here goes! THE SUSPICIOUS EARL THERE was a poor bedevilled Earl Who saw a Witch in every girl, A Wehr-Wolf every time one smiled, A budding Vampire in a child, A Sorcerer in every man, A deep-laid N ecromantic plan In every casual word; withal Cloaked in its black horrific pall A Vehmgericht obscenely grim, And all designed—to ruin him!
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
94 KONX OM PAX That rose their steely flight behind, and set him lion-like to roar. And as the Dervish bowls and whirls its savour catches him and lifts His soul (beyond the mind that drifts) into the Treasure House of Pearls. Even to the icy solitude of death a gust of scent is borne An herald of the awaking morn to that unhappy brotherhood; An herald of the healing kiss of maids with eyes of white and black Whose heavenly lips shall woo them back into a bright eternal bliss. O laughter of delicious boys that bring the cup and pour the wine And…
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
…’t say. Via P v. Oculus But in the first we came to a mighty throne of gray granite, shaped like the sweetest pussy eat you ever saw, and set up on a desolate heath. It was midnight, and the Devil came down and sat in the midst; but my Fairy Prince whispered: “Hush! it is a great secret, but his name is Yeheswah, and he is the Saviour of the World.” And that was very A."
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…they instantly feel compassion for the “ Others "—who, being merely unpurified parts of their consciousness, simply need annihilating—and set to work (if you please!) to redeem these “ Others,” to initiate these “ fellow-men,” to emancipate these “separate beings.” [The bitterly sarcastie tone of this passage ohills the bloodqf MRS. BONES, and she hastily prepares more amfi'e. Therefore they determine to announce Truth to men, that Truth may make them free—it is but a step to jonah’s Whale. Now the process of waking from these dreams of evil, of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 62
42 KONX 0M PAX He has sought to write Truth; is any ready to receive it? Will he not be misunderstood? Will not one set of fools cry “ Casuist !” and their twin brethren exclaim: “ Here, indeed, at last shine wisdom, and virtue, and multiscient truth 1"? No: for the Essay, and the Hearer, what are they but dog-faced demons, that manifest no sign of Truth, but seduce ever from the Sacred Mysteries? Aflirm their identity with the One that is None, or destroy them—these are the two aspects of the supreme Ritual, and these two are one, which is None…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…mic career, only to discover (if he have sufficient wit left over from the process) that the qualities required for success in life are a set different from, and even incompatible with, those which gave him his fellowship; so also we may help those weaker brethren who animadvert scomfully upon the circumstance that a poet, a philosopher, an adept, an emancipated man of any sort, rarely speaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…ata (fancy now!) Comes from the hopper as bran-new Sludge, naught else, The Shakers’ Hymn in G with a natural F Or the Stars and Stripes set to consecutive Fourths.” I am not a poet; I am a typewriter. A very complex machine, and one capable of self adjustment and improvement; but I can’t dictate as much as a business letter. The machine needs the Operator before a single key can be struck. If Bowley goes mad (the quartos have “madder"), or dies,
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…of amethyst ” the fifth time (there are five verses, because my lover’s name has five V’s in it), he galloped across the beautiful green sunset, spurring the winged horse, till the blood made all the sky turn rosy red. 50 he caught me up and set me on his horse, and l clung to his neck as we galloped into the night. Then he told me he would take me to his Palace and show me everything, and one day when we were married I should be mistress of it all. Then I wanted to be married to him at once, and then I saw it couldn’t be, because I was so sleepy …
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
… no seed. M life is bitter and sterile, ts flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystical bar That is set for wrath and wee ing Against the children ofeart ; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth I lift my wand and wave on Through hill to hill of elight: M rosy rivers lave you n innermost lustral light. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In 5 ite of the spite that is day's, e are wed, we are wild, we are one! The palate which cannot appreciate such a vintage…