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…ast 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: His silence girt him like fine gold. The fifth was ruddy and fair of face ; He held his tongue a space. The sixth was many-co…
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…4 WHY JESUS WEPT SCENE XII. TWO YEARS LATER. Night: The Strand, opposite the fotel Cectl. “l chemist’s shop behind. A grey, old, wieened man staggers tnto the shop. CHEMIST. This prescription has been made up before, Sir. THE MAN. Yes, I want it renewed, quickly, quickly. CHEMIST. I am afraid, sir, it is marked ‘once only.” THE MAN. You won't? O if you knew what I suffer! I will pay you double. CHEMIST. I’m afraid not, sir. You may try else- where. Trk MAN, O God! O God! [Goes out. To him enter on the pavement a bedrageled female. THE WoMAN. Co…
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…g But here where the wise pen And silver cadences outrunning song, And clear sweet clean-chiselled English, sharp and strong, Of the one man! among the latter men Who lived with Nature, saw her face to face, And died not : here in this consummate place, Immortal now, though the Antarctic sent Its mightiest coldest wave and rose and rent The coral and annihilated land, Or though the swarthy hand Or foot misshapen of the Hephaestian, (Hating the air-breathing man, In such sweet love as dwells, above all other places Ilere, in our hearts and faces…
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…re is no more to hear. They perish not ; they do not thrive. They are at rest, alive, The Seven Wise Men of Martaban; And, moribund, the man. THE BEAUTY AND THE BHIKKHU: A TALE OF THE TENTH IMPURITY. (From the Pait.) I LISTEN! The venerable monk pursued His path with downcast eyes ; his thought revolved Ever in closer coils serenely screwed About the Tenth Impurity. Dissolved All vision of his being but of one Thing only, his sun-whitened skeleton. II, A dainty lady sick of simple life, Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man, Put on her je…
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… and linked :— Aha! one names the awful Name— The twin red planets are extinct. BANZAL ! THERE leapt upon a breach and laughed A royally maniac man. A bitter craft Is mine, he saith, O soldiers of Japan ! I am the brothel-knave of death, The grimly courtesan. Now who will up and kiss her lips, Or grip her breast and bone? The subtle life she shears and snips Is harder gained than gone ; The lover’s laughter whom she clips Is but a dying groan. She lieth not on a gilded bed In the city without the city.! One kiss is hers full rank and red— Do yo…
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…omum sed furtiva dedit muta munuscula nocte. Go sunnily through my garden of flowers, dear maiden o’ mine, and once in a while you ‘that man had no place therein. every garden is the world; and in the world these are. So every cathedral is the world, and the architect of Notre Dame deserved his heaven. To me life and death have most often appeared in majesty and beauty, in solemnity and horror ; in emotions, to be brief, so great But there shall come upon some grotesque Chinese | are moods, in which the heights are attained dragon with huge and…
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… 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 Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour changes as his child Calls him first father” ; sense of strength divine Fills him; then man’s work in the world, and wild Efforts to fam…
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… Car- RUTHERS, GREUMOCH, MOLLY, and retainers on horseback enter LADY BAIRD and SIR PERCY PERCIVALE om the battlements. CARRUTHERS. Be a man, Greumoch boy, be a man ! GREUMOCH. Sir, did she’ll no be thinking ye were greeting yersei’, mon, she'll could find it in her heert to whang ye, whateffer. ANGELA. You are early hunting, gentlemen. in! My steward shall serve somewhat. [Sees MOLLY. Ha! Ha! Ha! You bring a lady, then, Carruthers ! Come CARRUTHERS. Madam ! Give me that boy ! ANGELA. You fool, you are too late ! This is a man. CARRUTHERS. I wa…
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102 GARGOYLES LE JOUR DES MORTS. AT Paris upon Dead Man’s Day I danced into the cemetery. The air was cool ; the sun was gay 3 The scent of the revolving clay Made me most wondrous merry. Earth, after an agonising bout, Had swallowed up a widow clean. The issue hung for long in doubt :-— —Oh! anybody can make out The mystery I mean. The dead were dancing with the worms ; The live were laughing with their lemans ; The dead-alive were making terms With God, and notaries, and germs, With house-agents and demons. All Paris keeping sacrament Of musi…
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…power I might fly westward shod with wings of fire And find my love, and in her arms expire, Or wed her for an hour. (Not for an hour as man, but even as God Whose day is like an aeon. Love hath nor station, stage, nor period : But is at once in his inane abode Beneath the spring Dircean.) Alas, the will flies ere the power began. Lo, in the Idan grove Invoking Zeus to swell the power of Pan, The prayer discomfits the demented man ! Lust lies as still as love. 1 Referring to the story of Elisha. - This obscure stanza means: that the in- vocatio…
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…! language falters IfI would teach thee half an hint sublime Shed of the rayless fire upon my altars. Vain are the light and laughter of man’s rime, Vain the large hymns, and soaring songs and psalters ! My face, my breast, no soul of man uncovers, Nor is my bed made lovely with my lovers ! I long for purple and the holier kiss Of mortal lyrist ; in these arms to gladden ; To take him to the spring and source of bliss, And in his vast embrace to rouse me, madden Once with the light of passion, not to miss Uttermost rapture till the sweet loves …
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… end on the top of a precipice, whence falling, he shall find himself in bed. Hear wisdom! the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, A man is almost obliged to be in com- munion with God when God is blowing his hat off, drenching him to the skin, whistling through his very bones, scaring him almost to death with a flash of lightning, and so on. When he gets time to think, he thinks just that. In a church all is too clearly the work of man: in the matter of man’s comfort man’s devices are so obviously superior to God’s: so that we compare hats…
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…CAPTAIN. Yes, my lord. [Sa/ztes.] ALAIN. Let them be drawn up behind yon door. When I clap my hands you will raise the arras, but let no man move. And let ’em be silent—the man I hear Thang. [CAPTAIN salutes.} You may go. [CAPTAIN salutes, and exit, ALAIN reaches to a tome on the table.) Now, Flaccus, let us spend this night together as we have spent so many. The crisis of my life—my brother’s trust, God rest his soul! [evosses himself and mutters silently in prayer|—shall not find Alain de Malétroit unready or disturbed. SCENE CLOSES. SCENE II…
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…eses up as tf to strike her uncle, sees IYENYS, screams, covers her face with her hands, and sinks on the Hoor. BLANCHE, That is not the man !—my uncle—that is not the man ! ALAIN. [Chuckles.| So? Of course not. I ex- pected as much. It was so unfortunate you could not remember his name. BLANCHE, This is not the man. ALAIN. Aman, niece. [Zurns airily to DENYS.] Tempestiva sequi viro, Monsieur Denys. BLANCHE. Indeed, indeed, I have never seen this person till this moment. [7Zurns to DENYS imploringly.| Sir,if you are a gentleman, you will bear m…
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…bit, and the results of treatment or accident are distinctly visible in it: for example, he who by nature or training or both was a tall man while he was alive, will remain as he was, after he is dead; and the fat man will remain fat; and so on; and the dead man who in life had a fancy to have flowing hair, will have flowing hair. And if he was marked with the whip and had the prints of the scourge, or of wounds in him when he was alive, you might see the same in the dead body; and if his limbs were broken or misshapen when he was alive, the sa…
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…ideous clamour, Abhorred and careless she bids order cease. Her hate resolves the shriek into a stammer Ofinarticulate rage. The wounded man Twisted in agony beneath her squirms To hear her raucous blasphemies outspan The grip of God at this his last of terms. Yea! he must die with horror in his ears, Hate in his heart. The mischief must endure. He hath expiated naught by death. His tears, His thoughts, these strike nor stay her not, be sure ! She is Madness, and a fury; though were gone All life to war, she would scream on—scream Ol. W. E. HEN…
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…, Mr. Conformity, and his twin, Mr. Nonconformity, agree to pretend that initiates are always either dupes or impostors; they deny that| man can see God and live. Look! There goes John Compromise to church, speculat- ing, like Lot’s wife, on the probable slump in sulphur and the gloomy outlook for the Insurance Companies. It will never do for his Christ to be a man of like passions with himself, else people might expect him to aim at a life like Christ's. He wants to wallow and swill, and hope for an impos sible heaven. So that it will be impru…
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LIBER TERTIUS VEL LABORIS 187 RHADAMANTHUS. For righteous thought and deed Apportioning its meed ; For evil act and mind Rewarding in its kind ; So sit we: but our power Apportions not an hour To light the dying lamp, revive the faded flower. MINOS. But thou, be strong to sing! . ALACUS. Loose arrows from the string ! RHADAMANTHUS. Bid the wild word take wing ! MINOS. Hades hath evil fame To suppliants—bitter shame !— Inexorable. AE ACUS. Aim Yet the swift prayer, abide His word whate’er betide. What worse? RHADAMANTHUS, The Gods thy guide! Go …
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…rimond de Champ- divers to move toward his bliss ! [Motse of clashing armour, ribald laughter, &°-c. Enter the Watch, R., avrunk. A WATCHMAN. Ho, boys! a gay night for thieves. FLORIMOND. Curse the sots ! [ Crouches back in the shadow. SECOND WATCHMAN. ( Szzes) The soldier’s life is short and merry, His mistress’ lips are ripe as a cherry, Then drink, drink ! The guns roar out and the swords flash clean, And the soldier sleepeth under the green, Oh, the soldier’s life for me ! But a scurvy night it is, comrades, when the streets are slippery, a…
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…ts shadows in a singer’s soul, He feels the arrow from a party bow Who yet hath strength to struggle with the whole. I love my wife. The many-coloured throne Of Grecian meadows hath nor charm nor lure Now she is gone. Lamenting and alone My dulled heart aches, most that it must endure. Give this decree, O masters! Few the days And light the hours since Heracles de- scended The dusky steep, the intolerable ways, And one prey—Theseus—from your prisons rended By might of godhead and the skill of man. But now with music from a Muse’s breast Sweeten…