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ORPHEUS A LYRICAL LEGEND [The allusions in this poem to classical legend or myth are too numerous to be dealt with by annotation. A good classical dictionary will enable the reader to trace all the allusions.] CONTENTS. WARNING. THE POET: EXORDIUM. BOOK I. Introductory Ode— Str. a! Calliope. Ant. a! Orpheus. Str. 8! Calliope. Ant. 8! Orpheus. str. y! Calhope. Ant. y! Orpheus. 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…
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CONTENTS 125 Str. 6 Orpheus in alternate invocation, Ant. 6 Time— Semichorus «° The Hours. B® The Seasons— Semichorus «6 Spring. - B® Summer. ” y® Autumn, » 66 Winter. Semichorus y® The Years. » 6° The Lustres. Spint In harmony Water | developing Earth the five- Fire fold idea. Semichorus «© The Centuries. a’ Centuries 87 Mahakalpas y’ Manwantaras 5? Eternity Semichorus | Str, y Orpheus Ant. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis : The Poet. Epode : Nature. BOOK II. Orp…
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208 ORPHEUS O sacred soul of water. Kiss, ah kiss, With gentle waves like lips my breast, my two small breasts, Rose flames on ivory seas ! SECOND MANAD. Nay! Nay! Of ivy, clingst thou so for love? O soul A VOICE AS OF THE RUSTLING OF Ivy. For love. SECOND MAENAD. Cling not so close! O no! cling closer then ! Let thy green coolness twine about my limbs And still the raving blood: or closer yet, And link about my neck, and kill me so! THIRD M-ENAD. Soul of the rock ! Dost love me? A VOICE AS OF FALLING ROCK. I love thee. THIRD: MAENAD. Woo me th…
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LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 209 ORPHEUS. No more. AGAVE. No longer ? ORPHEUS. Nothing. AGAVE, What then here Dost thou amid these sacred woods? ORPHEUS. I weep. AGAVE. Weep then red wine ! AUTONOE. Or we will draw thy tears, Red tears of blood. AGAVE. On, girls! this bitter fool Would stop our revel ! ORPHEUS. Nay! ye bid me cease Weeping. AGAVE. Then listen ! drink this deep full cup, Or here we tear thee limb from limb! ORPHEUS., Do so! Ay, me! I am Orpheus, poor lost fool of Fate ! Orpheus, can cha:m the wildest to my lyre. Beasts, rocks, obey—…
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126 ORPHEUS Trio: Minos, Eacus, Rhadamanthus—‘' Brethren, what need of wonder.” Orpheus continues his voyage—‘' 4k me/ ILfind ye but ill counsellors." Invokes Hades—'' Now 7s the gold gone of the year, and gone.” Invokes Persephone—‘' /z Asia, on the Nysian plains, she played.” Persephone awakes—'‘' 4h me / I feel a stirring in my blood.” Orpheus pleads with her—‘' And therefore, O most beautiful and mild,” Persephone invokes Hades -‘' Ah me/ no fruit for guerdon.” Orpheus invokes the Furies—'' /z vain, O thou veiled.” Septet: The Furies, Orphe…
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134 ORPHEUS The veil of us falling On snow-height and heather, Or hovering and scrawling Strange signs in the «ther. We hear the still voice, and we know him . we come ! We are sightless and dumb. ORPHEUS. More frail than your 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 …
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… to the bridegroom: I blush, but] I hear, and I nestle upon thee, O lyrist I come supreme, And bow to thee dumb. Light loves in a dream. ORPHEUS. ORPHEUS. O blacker than hell, Child of sweet rain, © bluer than heaven, O fathered of frost ! O green as the dell Bitterest pain Lit of 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 terribl…
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… waste and wood, To my breast the many-herded Lowing kine in gracious mood Come, drink deeply, and are glad of me, my pleasant solitude. ORPHEUS. From the breast 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 p…
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196 ORPHEUS TISIPHONE. Tear wide apart The jaws ! MEGARA., Force fear against the inmost heart ! PERSEPHONE. Mercy! I plead, sweet sisters! ORPHEUS. And I plead Vengeance, and help in my extremest need. Pile up the torture! Had he not the power, And silence mocked me? MEGARA. Urge us hour by hour, Thou couldst not add one particle of pain. ALECTO. He speaks not! Bid his torture speak again ! TISIPHONE. Speak, murderer ! MEG-ERA. Hades! answer us! ALECTO. Expel These torments from thy being, us from [lel], Or Zeus from Heaven ! TISIPHONE. Or els…
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…s, 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 drunken crew, Bassarids in their wrath. SAPPHO. Woe is me! the brow of a brazen morning Breaks in blood on w…
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138 ORPHEUS THE EAGRE. THE BAYS. Flings my single billow spuming Where the hills reach to heaven behind us Into midmost air the world, A voice is rolled over the steep, As the echo of my booming Some godhead whose glory would bind us, To the furthest star is hurled. Reflected far-off on the deep. Now I hear the lunar clashing We hear the low chant that may blind us, That evokes me from the tide, The song from the ultimate shore. Now I rise, my fury lashing, We come that our lover may find us Rolling where the banks divide— His bride as he found…
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…sus, lord of life and joy, In whom we may perceive a subtle world Hidden behind this masquerade of things. O sisters, thither, thither ! ORPHEUS., All deceit. Delusive as this world of shadows is, That subtler world is more delusive yet, Involving deeper and still deeper: thought, Desire of life, in that warm atmosphere Spring up and blossom new, rank poisonous flowers, The enemies of peace. Nay! matter’s all, And all is sorrow. Therefore not to be, Not to think, love, know, contemplate, exist ; This Not is the one hope. AGAVE. Believe it not !…
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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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… Bacchanals Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage." That is an old device. Midsummer Night's Dream, What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore The Muse herself, for her enchanting son Whom universal Nature did lament When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory body down the stream was sent Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Lycidas. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier dee…
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ORPHEUS All we are shapen fair In many forms of grace, But change is everywhere, And time is all our share And all the ways of space. One lives an hour of day; One even man’s life exceeds; One loves to chase and slay; One loves to sing and play; Each soul to his own deeds ! A share of joy is ours, A double share of grief; So sum the many hours In many hopes and powers, All powers except the chief. Emotion fills our souls, And love delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were d…
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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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158 ORPHEUS LIBER SECUNDUS VEL AMORIS TO MARY BEATON WHOM I LAMENT ‘* The Kabbalists say that when a man fallsin love with a female elemental—undine, sylph, gnome, or salamandrine, as the case may be—she becomes immortal with him, or otherwise he dies with her. . . . The love of the magus for such beings is insensate, and may destroy him.” —£iiphaz Levi. ‘Orpheus for the love he bare to his wife, snatcht, as it were, from him by untimely Death, resolved to go down to Hell with his harp, to try if he might obtain her of the in- fernal power." —7…
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ORPHEUS Hyperion his treasure Of light that is rolled In music and pleasure Unheard and untold. We are kisses of light and of tears, love’s triumph on fear. We obey: I am here! ORPHEUS. Dim lights 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, Th…
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198 ORPHEUS —2 MEGAERA. The king Endures, and is not moved at anything, ALECTO. He will not now relent. TISIPHONE. He's ours for ever ! HADES. Ai! Ai! MEGARA. Hark ! ALECTO, Listen ! TISIPHONE. Now he yields—or never ! HADES, Release! Relent! ECHIDNA. Fair lover, let my embrace Still gladden thee to rapture! let my face Be like a garden of fresh flowers to cull, And all thy being and thy body full As mine of gentle love—then sink to sleep ! MEG-ERA. Ha! Ha! She mocks him! In the utter deep, Her house of evil, sleep is stranger there. ALECTO. Sh…
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150 ORPHEUS ORPHEUS. O hours not of day But of ons that roll! Earth stretches away 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 …