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…ation’s ills ! An idle volume with mere bosh he fills ; Ee dreams and dozes, toils and flies afar, Apace—the body by a thousand wills OF fire cross-twisted, bruised, is thrust, a spar, Wreckage of some wild sea, to seas without a star. Listen, O lady, listen, reverend Abbot, Lord of the Monastery, Fort Augustus !! Hear an awakening spirit’s a. b, ab! but Let not thy medieval logic thrust us Into contempt; nor, lady, can we trust us Wholly to thy most pardonable failing, Sentiment; one will rot, the other rust us. Let us just listen to the spiri…
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…f the world, In passionate bowers Of mystery curled, Come forth! for the powers Of my crying are hurled :— Come forth! O ye souls of the fire, where the sound of my singing is whirled ! Ye blossoms of lightning, Bare boughs of the tree Of life, where the brightening Abysses of sea Reveal ye, the whitening Swords kindled of me. Come forth ! I invoke thee, O lightning, the flames of the Gods flung free ! THE LIGHTNING. The wand of Hermes, the caduceus wonder-working, Sweeps in mid-zether— Where we are lurking It finds us and gathers. By our mothe…
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…an house, Hlera! thy grim device against the sweet carouse ! Lo! in red roar and flame Did Zeus descend! What claim To feel the immortal fire had then the -Theban dame ! Caught in that fiery wave Her love and life she gave With one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. And thou, O Zeus, the sire Of Bromius—hunter dire !— Didst snatch the unborn babe from Olympian fire : that In thine own thigh most holy That ofispring melancholy Didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia, and moly.
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…dlong into Hell."—Zhe Wisdom of the Ancients. ‘* Moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays." —Rafge of Lucrece. . i ot Vivid and hoary, Take fire, understand The ways of the dark, As an angel did guide me, As I pass in my flight On the awed storm cloud, Steeps steeper than sleep, oe Depths deeper than night, | Waving the brand I have furrowed and ploughed | Of the dawn’s red spark. (Deep calling to deep !) My measures mark The influence fine Through the spaces of light, e The heads of them bowed Of the voyage divine ° Of the airy bark For the fears…
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156 ORPHEUS Dawn shakes the molten fire of my delight From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses ! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses ! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. Nature my name is called. O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless! O shadowy tale! O brain that halts before its thought for- gotten! Once a…
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…dule or delight, I am master of things. ORPHEUS. O mother, I fear me! The might of the lyre ! They tremble to hear me, The powers of the fire. Come near me to cheer me! Be near and inspire ! Be strength in my heart and good courage, and speed in the single desire ! The fire knows its master ! They flicker and flare, Dread dogs of disaster, Wild slaves of despair. Faster and faster— My soul is aware Of a sound that is dimmer and duller, wide wings adrift of the air. the tameless ones hear and obey? From secretest places Whence darkness is drawn,…
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…us. Epode Calliope. Str. a Orpheus in alternate invocation. Ant. a The Elemental Forces— Semichorus a! Lightning. » B! Volcanoes, Chorus—Fire. Semichorus «2 Winds. - p2 Clouds. » y? Mist. » 63 Rain. ” e? Frost. - ¢? Snow. » n? Ice. » 62 Dew. » Hail. ry x2 Rainbow, Chorus—The Tempest. . Semichorus «3 Fountains. 7 B3 Jakes. ” y? Torrents, » 53 Rivers. » «3 Waterspouts, ” ¢3 Eagre. ” n3 Wells. 63 Bays. Chorus—The Sea. Massed Semichorus o! of Earth-Spirits. Massed Semichorus #* of Living Creatures of Earth, Chorus—The Earth. 124
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…PT SCENE VI. Sir PERCY PERCIVALE (02 Wastwater). God, I have rowed ! My hands are one blister ; My arms are one ache ; But my brain is a fire, As erst on the fell, In the hall; let me dive To the under-abode, Where the sweet-voiced sister Of the Screes! shall forsake Her home for desire Of me! Say the spell ! Down then ! to drive— [He dives. The waters close over him. He rises. Misery ever ! I dived, and the best Could dive no deeper. Did I touch bottom? Never, O never! I stand confessed A footler, a creeper. These spells—’Od rot ’em !— Are vai…
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…victories in song seem a dis- cordant groan. LESBIAN SHORE. _ Upon my cliffs of green, Beneath the azure skies, She stands with looks of fire, Sappho. Her hands between Lies the wild world; she flies From agony to agony of desire, CALLIOPE. Him, Orpheus, him she sings; Loosing the living strings, Till music fledged fares forth sunward on moon-wrought wings. LESBIAN SHORE. Yea, by the solar name, Orpheus her lips acclaim, The centre and the silence! O! the torrent of fine flame Like hair that shooteth forth To the ensanguine North Whence ran the…
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…ice move thee to joy, the in- voker thy glory declare In words that shall please Thy terrible peace, O speedy to save, In flames of fine fire that bedew the deepest Tartarean cave ! [/voking HECATE] O triple form of darkness! Sombre splen- dour! Thou moon unseen of men! Thou huntress dread ! Thou crownéd demon of the crownless dead! O breasts of blood, too bitter and too tender ! Unseen of gentle spring, Let me the offering Bring to thy shrine’s sepulchral glittering ! I slay the swart beast ! I bestow the bloom Sown in the dusk, and gathered i…
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…ver us, cover Our faces, and hover Above us, within us! Daintily shod, Daintily robed, His witcheries spin us A web of desire. Subtle as fire He cometh among us. The whole sky globed Is on fire with delight, Delight that hath stung us, The passion of night. Night be our mistress ! That tress and this tress Weave with thy wind Into curls deep-vined ! Passionate bliss ! Rapture on rapture! Our hymns recapture The Bromian kiss. Blesséd our souls ! Blesséd this even | We reach to the goals Of the starriest heaven. Daphnis, and Atthis, and Chrysis, …
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…d ; But look toward the chill profound End and abyss of love. The water and the skies are fallen Far beyond sight of them. All earth and fire gasp and expire: The night hath lost her starry host, Shattered her diadem. Eternity uplifts its brink To bar the wizard wings. The lightning stoops to let them drink. They silently espouse, and think Unutterable things. The nightmare neighs! The untravelled ways Are past on fervid feet. The limits of the limitless Flash by like jewels on a dress, Or dewdrops fallen in wheat. ‘“Q love! O husband ! I did n…
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…Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damnéd minion Of Set,! the accursed lord of Hell. Yea ! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. 1 The ass-headed deity of the Egyptians, slayer of Osiris. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Druse on Lebanon. Moreover pylon shouldered round To pylon an unearthly tune, Like phantom priests that strike and sound…
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…d then consider! Dost thou dare to dare? The live sun leaps by invisible degrees ; The blessed moon grows slowly through the trees ; And fire has fire’s ingressive agonies. K
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LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 143 Our voiceless clefts and spires of delicate hue, Changing and lost in the exultant blue, By fire and whirlwind fashioned and then riven, Invoke fresh song, with deep solemnity In noble notes of mastery answering thee, By some young tumult in our old hearts driven ; And this immortal path of splintered rock Shall lead the wild chant to the sky, and mock The nectared feast of Gods with its im- passioned shock. Deep-mouthed, I, earthquake, wake in echoing thunder. I break my mother’s breast ; I tear asunder The womb t…
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…‘ Follow.’ hiding in her wing Her glorious head and flowing breast of wine. Though in the hollow of her heart be set So deep and awful a fire, though the net Of all her robes be frail as we are fine, We gather, listening to the living lyre Like falling water shot with amber fire, And blown aloft by winds even to heaven’s desire. Deep starry gems set in a silver sea, Sullen low voices of dark minstrelsy, Light whispers of strange loves, of silver woven, Dumb kisses and wild laughter following: All these as lives of autumn and of spring We are: w…
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… As the light, the music, and the thunder Of moving worlds retire ; As the hoarse sounds of the heaven wonder When Zeus flings forth his fire ; As the clang of swords in battle ; As the low of home-driven cattle ; As the wail of mothers children-losing ; As the clamorous cries of darkening death ; As the joy-gasp of love’s chosen choosing ; _As the babe’s first voluntary breath ; As the storm and tempest fallen at even ; As the crack and hissing of the levin ; As the soft sough of tree-boughs wind-shaken ; As the fearful cry of souls in hell, W…
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…er I shall most surely find Ere the end be: awake, O living lyre, Since in the narrow way and pass confined I see a darkness infinite as fire, Clear as all spirit vision, lustrous yet As ebony shows in caverns rendered dire By dreadful magic, or as if pure jet Had taken of itself an inner light, And its own blackness filled night’s coronet With a new jewel: so I see aright Where no light is like earth’s. grows broad And lofty, till the whole hall springs to sight, The path And I am standing where the dreaded Lord And Lady of the region of the l…
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26 WHY JESUS WEPT I the bright Deva! of the golden sphere ; I the swift spirit of the primal fire :— All theseI am, not will be. O blind ape! All these are shapeless ; thou art but a shape, A blind, bad-blooded bat! Ugh! Ugh! The snake Wriggling to death amid his burning brake Is wiser, holier, lordlier. Open, page Of the old Rabbi | * tell me of the mage; Of him who would; of him who dared and did ; Of him who feared and failed; of him who. fell ; One peéring .lightwards through a coffin-lid, One aching heavenwards—and achieving hell! O let me…
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…esist ! ALECTO. O face of woman wretched and unkissed, What hast thou here to do with us? TISIPHONE. -Be quiet ! MEGAERa. Quench not the fire of murder! ALECTO. Loose the riot Of worms beneath the skull !