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…runners of the next nearing their earthly perfection, become true adepts, | crop begin to shootin the form of artists. Diagram- not mere men of genius. 'They disappear, harvested | matically: by heaven: and perfect darkness (apparent death) | THE INVISIBLE /” y 4 ‘ a va THe VisiB LZ / a “2 8 } a 45.7 Sg f i) 2 ” ae Sid 7 ey’ oe. Suto ° noe RY, NESY 7 a : u / v A 4 oo , 6 MANNoo gene ‘ ae m “tT sneer ene ~ i. enol? Preeesee 2 oa “MANKIND fer Deca- |} «;: dence Slime. CIME |—> Adepts | Adepts ; Renaissance. Adepts, as jinvisiblei Renaissance, etc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
… No guerdon differing from the toil, Were that accomplished: pain and sin Are needed for the counterfoil Of joy and love: if only so All men had these in keen excess Those were forgotten : indigo Is amber’s shadow, but—confess For all men but ourselves the tint | ay! Of all the earth is dull and black ! Only some glints of love bestow The knowledge of what meteor wrack Trails pestilence across the sky. But we are other—you and I! So shall we live in deep content, Unchanging bliss, despise them still Groping on isle and continent Wreathed in the…
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SONNETS AND QUATORZAINS 123 OCTAVE MIRBEAU. BRUTAL refinement of deep-seated vice Carves the coarse features in a_ sentient mould. The gardens,! that were soft with flowers and gold And sickening with murder of lust to entice The insane to filthier raptures, carrion spice Of ordure for perfume, bloom there, fixed bold By the calm of the Master, god-like to behold The horror with firm chisel and glance of ice. Ay! and the petty and the sordid soul, A servile whore’s deformed debauchery,? Grins from the image. Let posterity From Rodin’s art guess…
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…f Fate had bereft me, Oh Muse, of thy birth, Still I had cleft me A way in her girth! | I tune the loud lyre once again to the mother of men in her mirth. O mighty and glad In spring-time and summer ! O tearful and sad When the sun is grown dumber, When the season is mad, And the gods overcome her, When the sky is fulfilled of the frost and the fingers of winter numb her ! O marvellous earth Of multiple mood That givest men birth And delicate food, Red wine to make mirth Of thine own red blood, And corn and green grass and sweet flowers and fru…
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
…tes vong twice.] You may retire, father. [PRIEST dows and retires. Enter CAPTAIN and stands at salute.| Ah, Captain, you have your fifty men in readiness? 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’…
1907 · PDF PAGE 118
…tune, or hymn the light, Their vision of the world refined By mastery of superior sight : Honour their might! the gain have these Of all men’s woes and ecstasies ! High soul; no benediction seek From any spirit but our own ! Crown not the mighty with the weak! The Tower be a Tower, and not a Throne! In man-carved stone the endless coil Arise untopped, the Tower of Toil ! Deem not that prayer or sacrifice Will ever cause the work to end! Serene, sufficient, let it rise Alone ; it doth not ask a friend, Nor shall it bend a fatuous knee To a fanta…
1907 · PDF PAGE 124
…unseen mother and the secret spouse Ever availing in the sorrow and dust That aye avenge the artist’s victory won, That cover up his monuments of fame, That twist his sight, once steadfast on the sun, To the fear folded in the robes of shame :— Lest he, to all the world plain victor, find Himself mere failure to his own white mind. LE PENSEUR. BLIND agony of thought! Who turns his pen Or brush or lyre to Art, shall see in this The symbol of his battle against men For men, the picture of the torturing bliss Of his necessity : sits clutched and c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…he swift and glittering bride? The bride that clings as a snare with springs To the warrior’s stricken side? A shudder struck the hidden men As the maniac’s mouthings ceased. Then, kindling, rose a roar : ‘* Spread, spread the furtive feast | The wine of agony pour ! The fruit of valour pluck ! The meat of murder suck ! 1 The prostitutes of Japan live in a city by themselves, whenever they are sufficiently numerous to make this practicable. sweet are the songs of her throat ! Soft are the strokes of her fan! She hath love by rhyme and rote, She…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…he azure Ionian deep! Ere ripens the sun, ere the spring-wind hardens Your fruits once again ye shall have me to keep. A The sleep-god laments, and the love goddess pardons, When love atthe last sinks unweary to sleep. The green-hearted hours shall burst into flowers. The winds shall waft roses from uttermost Ind. Our nuptial dowers shall be birds in our bowers, Our couches the delicate heaps of the wind, Where the lily-bloom showers all its light, and the powers Of earth in our twinning are wedded and twinned. So singing I make reverence and r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
… God, A jealous God and evil ; with His rod He smiteth fair and foul, and with His sword Divideth tiniest atoms of intangible time, That men may know he is the Lord. Then, with that sharp division, Did He divide our wit sublime? Our knowledge bring to nought? We had no need of thought. We brought His malice in derision. So thine eternal petals shall enclose Me, O most wonderful lady of delight, Immaculate, indivisible circle of night, Inviolate, invulnerable Rose ! g. The sound of my own voice carries me on. I am as a ship whose anchors are all…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…tched from the stars at his birth; Erato the fierce and the mild ; Polymnia grave ; and the girth Broad-girdled of gold and desire, Melpomene’s terrible lyre, That lifts up her life in the wild, The star-piercing pean, and floats in mid- ether, and sinks to the earth. These three of the Muses were mine; They nurtured and knew me and kissed. Erato was hidden in wine; Polymnia dawned in the mist: Melpomene shone in the pyre Ofterrors that burned in her lyre; But all of their passion divine I lost in the life and the stress of the world ere ever t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
… of one accord, it is naturally also the only instance of a miracle which happened in church. The Quakers, arguing soundly enough that women were such a cause of contention chiefly on account of their tongues, and getting a glimpse of these truths which I have so laboriously been endeavouring to expound, hoped for inspiration from the effects of silence alone, and strove (even by a symbolic silence in costume) to repeat the experiment of Pentecost. But they lacked the stimulus of Syrian air, and that of the stirring times of the already visible…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…When virgin I came to him stainless, When love was a pleasure and painless ! _ What Destiny dreams and discovers Sur. a. : The fragrance men know for a lover's? | Peace turned into laughter and tears, ‘Borne down the cold stream of the years ! CALLIOPE, ORPHEUS. CALLIOPE. IN the days of the spring of my being, When maidenly bent I above Ant. a. The head of the poet, and, seeing Orpuegus Not love, was the lyre of his love ; ° When laurels I bore to the harper, O mother, O queen many-minded, When bays for the lyrist I bore, | More beauty than bea…
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ELEUSIS 22% dominance is the complement of his natural slavishness. So the blind groveller, 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. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…ters with benefit (such is the revivifying force of our Elixir) by seeking the esserce in the Iirst Matter of the Work; and we could» commend many of them, notably St. Ignatius and even the rationalising Mansel and Newman, if they would only concentrate upon spiritual truth, instead of insisting on the truth of things, material and therefore immaterial, which only need the touch of a scholar’s wand to crumble into the base dust from which their bloodstained towers arose. Whoso has been crucified with Christ can but laugh when it is proved that …
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
…ey yours? iii. 10 The serpent glimmered through the primal tree, lil, 121 These strictures must include the liar, ii. 148 The seven Wise Men of Martaban, iii. 103 The ship to the breezes is bended, i. 220 The solemn hour, and the magnetic swoon, i. 180 The sound of the hammer and steel, ii. 92 The spears of the night at her onset, iii, 94 The story as it runs is this, ii. 182 The story of a fool, ii. 53 The strange look of a woman of the town, ii. 19 The sun of love shone through my love’s deep eyes, li. 9 The sword is made sharp in our hands, …
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…within Death’s gate, i. 202 It has often been pointed out, ii. 58 I think, Sir, that I have you still, ii. 157 I think the souls of many men are here, 1. 44 It is a commonplace of scientific men that metaphysics is mostly moonshine, li. 258 It is a lamentable circumstance, ii. 185 It is fitting that I, Ambrose, ii, 212 It is loftily amusing to the student, ii, 203 It is summer and sun on the sea, i. 177 It is the seasonable sun of spring, i. 202 It matters little whether we, ii. 170 It may be that pure Nought will fail, ii. 177 It may possibly …
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…k-lights slackened. Such is the shore Who reacheth may never Return o’er the river ! Here pace evermore The terrible ghosts Malignant of men, Whose airless hosts In wars unjust Went down to the den ; Whose fury and lust Turned poison or steel On their own bad lives. Here whirls the grim wheel Where the dead soul strives Ever to climb To the iron nave, Find Space and Time, Or a God to save, Or a way o’er the wave. The Fate contrives That he never thrives. Revolving anon, The gleam is gone, And the shadowy smile
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…nd Warden of the Marches under his Majesty King Charles— DENYS. Whom God preserve ! [ Waves his broken sword. ALAIN, What excellent sentiments, and what an unfortunate omen—dear, dear me! And I have the honour to offer you the hand— I presume you already possess the heart—of the Lady Blanche de Malétroit. DENYS. You—what ? ALAIN, Tut! Tut! The marriage, if you please, will take place in an hour. DENYS. [ Aszde.] Oh, he is mad after all! [Aloud.] What nightmare is this? ALAIN. You are not very polite to the lady—not as polite as your letter. DEN…
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…e your pistol ; here’s a heart to hit ! [Sir Percy descends, after taking fare- well of ANGELA, and appears agatn on horseback among his men. SiR PERCY. Arnold and Ritson, tend the wounded man ! To breakfast, gentlemen ! [Looks up. Farewell ! ANGELA (waves her handkerchief and throws a kiss), Farewell ! | Axveunt. WIIY JESUS WEPT ANGELA, Ah, were such nights thy gift, dear Christ, all maids Were well thy servants. speaking ! The utmost triumph of a life well spiced With victory---this beats all. Ilortense! IJortense ! Bring me the brandy-—pour …