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…friends, The clouds borne above, The light of thee blends With the moon and her love. Thy spirit descends As a white-throated dove. Come forth! I invoke thee, O mist, and make me a sharer thereof ! THE MIsT. From valleys of violet My shadow hath kissed, From low-lying islet, A vision of mist, The voice of my pilot Steals soft to insist. O azure of sky, let Me pass to the tryst ! I hear the low voice of my love ; and I rest A maid on his breast. ORPHEUS. Thou child of soft wind And the luminous air, Thou, stealing behind As a ghost, as a rare So…
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… shed around me In many a form Like lovers surround me :— O tender and warm ! They hunt me, they hound me; They struggle and swarm— Come forth! I invoke ye united, the mani- fold shape of the storm ! THE TEMPEST. Wide-winged, many-throated, Colossal, sublime, I come and am coated With feathers of Time. I hear the deep note, head My pinions to climb, The roar of devoted Large limbs of the mime That mocks the loud lords of Olympus; we mingle; I wake. I come with the sound of a snake. ORIPHEUS, O storm many-winded, O life of the air, Thou angry an…
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…y From pole unto pole ; Four seasons decay, Ere one sound of thy soul, O fervent and following years, springs over the solar goal ! Come forth to the sound Of the seven sweet strings ! Advance and rebound ! Be your. pomp as a king’s ! Girdled around With seasons and stings As a serpent’s encompassing Time. forth ! on the heavy grey wings! Come Ye arbiter lords That sit as for doom, Bright splendour of swords Leaps forth in your gloom ! But stronger my chords Shall lift in your womb The love of your passage and time, imme- morial ages, your tomb…
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…f sunlight at even ! The birth of thee cost. © strong as a spell! Passion is slain O bright as the levin: When wished of thee most. Come forth! I invoke thee, O ice, by their |Come forth! I invoke thee, O hail, thou lord anguish, the rocks thou hast riven ! of a terrible host! THE ICE. THE HAIL. My steep-lying masses, My father was glad of me Mine innermost sheen, In places unseen ; My soundless crevasses, My rivers unseen, My glow that surpasses In azure and green The rocks and the grasses. My mother was sad of me, Where wind came between ; Wi…
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132 ORPHEUS Ye fieriest flowers, Life-stream of 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…
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…reast of the snow As a life-swollen stream, Your !ove-rivers flow Soft hued as a dream, Adrift and aglow With the sunlight supreme. Come forth! I invoke ye, O torrents that fall in the mazes and gleam ! THE MOUNTAIN TORRENTS. Falling fast or lingering love-wise, Gathered into mirror-lakes, Floating sprayed through heaven dove- wise, Dreaming, dashing ; sunlight shakes Into million-coloured petals All our limpid drops, and wraps Earth with green, as water settles On the rocks and in their gaps, Mossy rainbow-tinted maidens, flowers and fernshoot…
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…Light- | We listen, and love; and his voice is the ning, lotus-eyed ! voice of the God we adore. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. In sacred grove, Come forth in your gladness, In silent wood, O end of all these ! In calm alcove, O sorrow and madness In mirrored mood, And passion and ease, What light of love Sharp joy and sweet sadness, Your depth endued? Deep life and deep peace : Come forth! I invoke ye, O wells, ye: Come forth! I invoke you, ringed round dwellers of dim solitude ! | earth’s girdle, the manifold seas ! 1 | THE SFA. “THE WELLS. I hear but one…
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…om secretest places Whence darkness is drawn, Where terrible faces Enkindle the dawn, From wordless wide spaces, The ultimate lawn, Come forth! I invoke thee, O wind, come forth to me fleet as a fawn. THE WINDS. From fourfold quarters, The depth and the height, We come, the bright daughters Of day shed on night ; The sun and the waters Have brought us to light ; The sound of him slaughters Our soul in his sight. We hear the loud murmur; we know him; we rest 5 We breathe in his breast. ORPHEUs, By sunlight up-gathered As dust of his cars, By moo…
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…f Hell ! Ye terrors in [Ieaven ! The strength of the spell Is as thunder at even The rocks of the fell That hath blasted and riven. Come forth! I invoke ye, Efrinyes, the charm of the One that is seven. By the Five that are One, And the One that is Ten ; By the snake in the sun And her mirror in men ; By the Four that run And return them again ; By the fire that is lit in the Lion, the wave in the Scorpion den ! By the One that is Seven, The whirling eyes ; The Two made Eleven, The dragon’s devise ; The Eight against Heaven, All crowns of lies …
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210 ORPHEUS Servants of him that cometh forth At dawn with many-coloured lights Mounting from underneath the North, The shrine of the celestial Heights ! He is in me, and] in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth ether to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day. I am the spirit silken-clad That fareth on the fiery way. I have escaped from Him, whose eyes Are closed at eventide, and wise To drag thee to the House of Wrong :— Iam armed! Iam armed! I am strong! I am strong ! …
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… own agony and wrong, Shall see the lightning bridge the dreadful hollow With jagged flame of master-music, hear The blind curse thunder forth against in vain When the swift glory of the rolling sphere Of song pours forth its utterance, keen with pain, Mad with delight, and calm beyond woe and pleasure. Yea, every son of this my soul shall know In the swift concourse of his music’s measure One thing impatient of this to and fro March of hell’s dancers. I perceive a key To lock the prison of the world on him That built the iron walls and made de…
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140 ORPHEUS Come forth to the sound Of the lightning lyre, Ye valleys profound As a man’s desire, Ye woodlands bound In the hills that are higher Than even the note of a bird as it wings to the solar fire ! Ye fruits and corn, Gold, rose, and green, Vines purple-born, Pearl-hidden sheen, Trees waving in scorn Of the grass between ! Come forth in your chorus, and chant the praise of your mother and queen! Ye trees many-fronded That shake to the wind, Green leaves that have sounded My harp in your kind, Light boughs that are rounded, Grey tops th…
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…ly under the stars by one who hath|trembling lips! I will put a live coal upon drunken of the dew of the moon. Under the stars will I go forth, my brothers, and drink of that lustral dew: I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face, and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free. END OF your lips, and flowers upon your eyes, and a sword in your hearts, and ye also shall see God face to face. Thus shall we give back its youth to the world, for like tongues of triple flame we shall brood upon the Great De…
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…ld; 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 drunken crew, Bassarids in their wrath. SAPPHO. Woe is me! the brow of a brazen morning Breaks in blood on water athirst of Hebrus. Sanguine horror starts on her hills tenebrous : Hell …
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…lien though ancestral blood, And a new birth is current in the bud. Str. 3. Think, then, the deed impossible is done Since Theseus fared forth to the ambient air ! His thread once cut—was that indeed respun Or patched by witchery? a deceit? a snare ? I tell ye; past and future are but one, And present—nothing; shall not Hades dare His own omnipotence against the Sun, And let no tittle of his glory share With all the earth’s recuperating wheel, And evéry dawn’s sure falchion-flash of steel? Ant. 3 [Echo of the Damned]. Indeed, a deed impossible …
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…rning sense, All the concentred music that is I. O! hear me not! I die; I am borne away in misery of dumb life That would in words flash forth the holiest heaven That to the immortal God of Gods is given, And, tongue-tied, stammers forth—my wife ! 4. Iam dumb with rapture of thy loveliness. All metres match and mingle; all words tire; All lights, all sounds, all perfumes, all gold stress Of the honey-palate, all soft strokes expire In abject agony of broken sense To hymn the emotion tense Of somewhat higher—O! how highest !— than all Their myst…
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…ul skill By the loud brabble of the monster Crowley, That poet of the muck-heap! Oh, enough ! ‘The wind is harsh and vital on the hills. Forth let me fare! I am other than the stuff His dreams are made of! Aye! I shall endure ! I am destined Lord of many magic wills. Another Rosencreutz another order Founds—to a better end than his, be sure! Away ! away, my lad! and o’er the border I shall get myself a buxom bride, And ride—ride—ride ! [He rises. Ride to the blacksmith at Gretna Green, Kiss a fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for cert…
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…old him ! ALECTO. My foul eyes Hold his in terror ! MEGAERA, All my agonies Crawl in his vitals! TISIPHONE, He is mine, mine, mine! Pour forth of Thebes’ abominable wine ! Mine, O thou god, detested and adored ! MEGA:RA. Mine! he is mine! my lover and my lord ! ALECTO. Mine! Iam in his shape! MEG-ERA. Despair! Dispute Never my passion ! TISIPHONE. Sisters ! I am the livid agony that starts Damp on his brow ; the horror in his heart’s Envenomed arteries! and I the fear, The torment, and the hate! Be ye mute ! MEGARA, Be of good cheer! Rend him a…
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206 ORPHEUS Ay ! and with serpent hair And limbs divinely fair Didst thou, Dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air ! Ay! thus the dreams of fate We dare commemorate, Twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate and mate. O Dionysus, hear ! Be close, be quick, be near, Whispering enchanted words in every curving ear! O Dionysus, start As the Apollonian dart ! Bury thy hornéd head in every bleeding heart! AGAVE. He is here! He is here! AUTONOE. Tigers, appear ! AGAVE. To the clap of my hand And the whish of my wand, Obey ! A'UTONOE. 1 have found A …
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…things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE. Blood! Blood! Bromius, Bromius! Ha! Bring wine ! MAENADS. Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us ! AUTONOE. Us, maidens now And then and ever afterwards ! AGAVE, Chaste, chaste ! Our madness hath no touch of bitterness, No taste of foulness in the morning mouth. AUTONOE, O mouth of ripe red sunny grapes! God! God ! Evoe! Dwell! Abide! AGAVE. I feel the wings Of love, of mystery ; they waft soft streams Of night air to my heated breast and brow. MANADS. He comes! Iie comes! AGAVE, Sil…