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…t relit. Beyond resource, above appeal, Love comes to flit. TETE DE FEMME (MUSEE DU LUXEMBOURG). IT shall be said, when all is done, The last line written, the last mountain Climbed, the last look upon the sun Taken, the last star in the fountain Shattered, that you and I were one. What shall they say, who come apace After us, heedless, gallant? Seeing Our statues, hearing of our race Heroic tales, half-doubted, being So far beyond a rime to trace. What shall they say? For secret we Have held our love, and holy. Splendour Of light, and music of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
…by one; His kisses darken, shivering and keen, Swift glories cold and clean Of that chaste bridal, and the earth gets gladness, Till the last winter’s traces Fall from the spring’s last cold wind—shining sadness !— And from the frail new faces Blushing through moss; and all the world is light With the unsufferably bright Full joy and guerdon of that sunny season By Love’s sweet trap of treason. So the bright girl is now a woman brighter; And childhood sees a reason Beneath the strong stroke of the goodly smiter For all the past: and love at las…
1907 · PDF PAGE 242
…e-page as above; Dedication; Text, pp. 7-32. Im- print ‘‘R, Clay and Sons, Ltd., Bread St. Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk,”’ at foot of last page. Edition: 2 copies on Roman vellum, 300 on machine-made paper. Issued in green camel-hair wrapper lettered in red, ‘'The | God-eater | A Tragedy | of Satire | By | Aleister Crowley | Watts & Co. | 17 Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C. | 1903."’ Price 2s, 6d. 1 Gerald Kelly. Both the Introduction and Criti- ca) Essay are the resu)t of the collaboration of four men—A. C., G. K., D, J.-F., and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
IMAGES OF DEATH Stars for the sun that smote, for fire slow streams, For the simoom the zephyr’s cooing kiss, Deep sleep at last from all the evil dreams, And rest, the possibility of bliss. THE MORIBUND) I. THE Seven Wise Men of Martaban 2 Sate round the dying man. They were so still, one would have said : If he were dying, they were dead! The first was aged ; ip his beard He muttered never a weird. The next was beautiful and gay : IIe had no word to say. The third was wroth and rusty red, Yet not a word he said. The fourth was open and bold: …
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…Of deep reflection; then the gladdening tear Or saddening smile, the laughter not for- bidden And love enfolding the green-woven sphere: Lastly, the burning year of flame and fume That burns men up in fire’s sepulchral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong lauzhing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion: then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening ; the last lustre’s span C…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…hey cannot know us through and through. We have exceeded all the past. The future shall not build another. This is the climax, first and last. We stand upon the summit. Of ages, daughter of ages, cast Mother The fatal die, and turn to death ! Let evolution turn, involving As when the gray sun sickeneth— Ghostly September ! so dissolving Into the pale eternal breath. When all is done, shall this be said. When all is said, shall this be done, The zeon exhaust and finishéd, And slumber steal upon the sun, My dear, when you and I are dead. LA CASQU…
1907 · PDF PAGE 217
…ve ; and Ocean as itself retracts Itself into itself: choose ye of these !? But I hymn Pan. Awake, O lyre, awake ! As if it were for the last time, awake ! [He sings. In the spring, in the loud last: places, In the groves of Arcadian green, There are sounds and shadowy faces And strange things dimly seen. Though the face of the springtide as grace is, The sown and the woodland demesne Have a soul caught up in their spaces, Unkenned, and unclean! 1 Again from pseudo-Orpheus.
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…! 1 The bulk of this Book I. was written at Waikiki, which is described in this Parabasis. O Nature, my mother, Heart melted on heart At last! Not another, Not any shall part Thy soul from my art. How should it be otherwise, Sister divine, Lover, my mother wise, Wiser than wine? Seeing I linger Here on the beach— Let God’s own finger Here to me reach, Making me singer Each unto each— Nature and Man made one In the light and fire of the sun, And the sobbing tune Of the moon, Wedded in cyclic bonds, Where fall the zeon-fronds, Whose large bed bea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…oud and long. Struck with confusion, forth he fares, takes ship To utmost Ind and far-off Serendip. Full forty years he there abides: at last, Rich and respected, he contemns the past :— ‘Tf I declare myself, there’s hope, I wot, Hassan’s remembered, and his fault forgot !—” Determines to revisit home. Sweet airs Accomplishing the voyage, he repairs Unto the barber. ‘* Tell me of the state! Haroun still holds the royal Caliphate ?” ‘* Nay,” said the barber, ‘‘ long ago he passed Where all delights are ’stinguished at the last, And all good thin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
SONNETS AND QUATORZAINS 119 BOUCHES D’ENFER. Loox how it leaps towards the leaper’s curl OF vivid ecstasy, life loosed at last From the long-held leash! The headlong, hot-mouthed girl Upon her sister like a star is cast, Pallid with death-in-life achieved. O force Of murder animal in the dead embrace ! The implacable ardour, unavenged remorse For time’s insulting loss, quickens the pace Unto its prey that gathers, like a storm Shrouding invisibly the crater’s rim Whence fury yet shall wake, and fire in- form The inane basalt and coruscations di…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
… in at the captured gate! Then o’er the field the maniac passed And closed the dead men’s eyes. ‘* They are sleeping close with death at last !” The wanton warrior cries. But he who saw the dead man’s jaw Grind at the last was aware That the harlot’s kiss was Paradise That the soldier tasted there. And beyond the magnificent joy of death Shears through the sky, as a flame Ripping the air, the lightning breath Of the nation’s resonant fame. Hail! to the Hachiman! deed well done ! To the virile strength of a man! To the stainless blaze of the Ris…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
… if wisdom smile beyond, Too high to care, too ultimate to seek. The bitterést sorrow of all sorrow is this : I had no time to catch one last long kiss, Nor bid farewell, nor lay one lily-frond Of resurrection for the sign of bliss, Remembrance of some immortality Affirmed if not believed : alas for me That might not interchange the last sad vows, Nor close the blue eyes clearer than the sea Before they darkened, and the veil of death Shrouded their splendour: still there lingereth Some sad white lustre’on the icy brows, Some breast-curve surel…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
… hand ; Because thy whisper exceedeth the command Of Zeus; thy dim light far outshines his glory ; Because, as He the first is, Thou the last :— Therefore I take up sorrow in my hands, And ply thine ear with my most doleful story, Asking a future, who have lost a past : A guerdon of my singing like the land’s When spring breaks forth from winter, and the blood Of the old earth laughs in every new-born bud. Ant, 2 [Echo of the Damned). O thou! because thy lyre is keen and golden And beautiful thy numbers through our veins Pouring delight, as on …
1907 · PDF PAGE 22
…e, and loose the tongue Tinkles delicate things, faint thoughts of a futile past— We are past on eagle wings, and the silence is here at last. The last low wail of the lyre, be it soft with a tear For the children of earth and fire that have brought us here. Give praise, O masterful maid, to Nina, and all as they die! The moon makes blackest of shade: the star’s in the swarthiest sky. | Be silent, O radiant martyr! Let the world fade slowly afar! | But—had it not been for the Garter, I might never have seen the Star. ON OTN ATNOOQN ETZEBEIZ TOT…
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THE STAR AND THE GARTER 19 ‘See art: see truth as I who see, (Am wellnigh fallen in the fight !) Then the last lie, duality, May break before the victor sight. Then, and then only, That. Sweet hours Of trivial passion deep as death, Ye are past: I'face the solemn powers Of sex and soul, of brain and breath. For you I lift the veil: discover The actual, for I was your lover. What should such word imply? I showed Late, in the earlier dithyramb. But—in yon stone there lurks a toad !— The Quarter bleats no palinode ; Goat it may be, no woolly lamb.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
… | with some remarks on | ceremonial magic,’ pp. 123-148; ‘‘Science and Buddhism,” pp. 149-192; Epilogue in verse, pp. 193-194; Index on last page, imprint on reverse, ‘‘ printed | by | Philippe Renouard | 19, rue des Saints- Péres, 19 | Paris.” Headlines throughout. Editions: 100 copies on a glazed foreign paper.! Issued in navy blue wrapper front page lettered in gold ‘‘ Ye Sword | of Song,” with design in centre ‘'666” thrice repeated on a golden square (vide pp. 4-5 of book), on reverse pub- lishers’ advertisement; back of cover author's na…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…ght, iii, 174 As I sit in the sound, ili. 154 As some lone mountebank of the stage, li. 52 -As the tides invisible of ocean, iii. 131 At last I met a maniac, ii. 165 At last we arrive at the end, ii. 194 At least your faith should be content, ii. 163 At noon she sailed for home, ii, 84 At Paris upon Dead Man's Day. iii. 102 ‘* At the hour of the great Initiation” ii. 231 Aum! I unfold the tinted robe, ili. 66 Aum! Let us meditate aright, ii. 177 Aum! Let us meditate aright, ii. 184 Ay! I would murder not my brother only, il, 104 Ay! Let him ris…
1907 · PDF PAGE 89
…ss than I am. [DENYS determines to make a general advance. DENYS. [Zenderly.| Little fool ! [He waits. She struggles in herself ; and at last ruefuland pouting, gets up and stands before him downcast, rubbing her eyes. He takes full advantage of hts position. [ith mock severity.) Aren’t youashamed of yourself ? BLANCHE. [ Sobbia7¢.| After all you have heard? DENYS. [With double entendre.) 1 have heard nothing. [He opens his arms to her. She still stands about to sob again, breaks down, but this time flings herself on him and sobs on his breast.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
… then we do not wish to do so; certainly not gud historian. We leave him alone. Whoso hath ears to hear, let him hear! and the first and last ordeals and rewards of the Adept are comprised in the maxim “ Keep silence!” There should be no possible point of contact between the Church and the world: Paul began the ruin of Christianity, but Constantine completed it. The Church which begins to exteriorise is already lost. To control the ethics of the state is to adopt the ethics of the state: and the first duty of the state will be to expel the riva…
1907 · PDF PAGE 211
… 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.