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…lowered In purple and white, Embossed and embowered By the love of the light, Gold-sandalled and showered, Dew-kissed of the night, Your song is too faint and too joyous for mortals to hear it aright. Blue pansies, and roses, And poppies of red, Pale violets in posies Where Hyacinth bled, The flower that closes Its dolorous head ;— What song may be sung, or what tune may be told, or what word may be said ? All tropical scent, Blossom-kindled perfume Love-colours new-lent By the infinite womb, Gold subtlety blent With the scarlet bloom ;— Shall …
1907 · PDF PAGE 148
… solemn anthem singing $ Or as an organ thundering fiery tunes. We come, we greener hills, and rend the sky, With happier chorus and the songs that die Or mix their subtle joy and being with the moon’s. We come, we pine-clad steeps, we feathery slopes, With footfalls softer than tne antelope’s. We listen and obey: the sacred slumberer swoons More tranced than deacn in this far follow- ing, Careless of winter, not invoking spring ; And all the witless woods company us and sing. But not the glades by song of thee unstricken ? Not they? Shall they…
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…rings Stronger than earth, than the immortal kings Alike of death and life: invoke the sea That I may cross her on the viewless wings Of song, find out the desolating river That girds the earth, unloose the silver quiver, Choosing an arrow of sharp song to run Down to the waters that lament for ever :— And cleave them! spell Rive the strong gates of iron-builded hell, And move the heart of the ill-hearted one. Yea ! let me break the portals terrible, That my song’s insistent And bring her back ! come back, Eurydice! Come back, pale wanderer to …
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…ious years,” Laments—'‘ How can one hour dissolve a year's delight,” Tells of his wooing—'"' Jn child-like meditative movd,”’ Eurydice’s song—*' O shape half seen of love, and lost.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'‘‘ Such tune my fulling body snapped.” Invokes Aphrodite—‘' Daughter of Glory, child.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'‘' / caught the lavish lyre, and sate.” Eurydice’s song—‘' Who art thou, love, by what sweet name 1 quicken.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'" So dy sume spell divinely drawn.” Orpheus’ song—'‘' Voll, strong l…
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NOTES [THE SWORD OF SONG: 1904] The Sword of Song | called by Christians The Book of the Beast.| Aleister Crowley Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth | Benares | 1904. Collation :—Post 4to, pp. ix4-194, printed in red and black, consisting of Half-title, parody of passage from 7hrough the Look- ing Glass on reverse ; Title-page as above, Dedication on reverse; Introductory poem Nothung ; Half-title ; Prose Introduction to ‘¢ Ascension Day and Pentecost,” pp. ili- ix; Text, pp. 1-62; Notes, pp, 63-91; Appendices, pp. 93-127; ‘‘ N°WNID…
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
… clefts and spires of delicate hue, Changing and lost in the exultant blue, By fire and whirlwind fashioned and then riven, Invoke fresh song, with deep solemnity In noble notes of mastery answering thee, By some young tumult in our old hearts driven ; And this immortal path of splintered rock Shall lead the wild chant to the sky, and mock The nectared feast of Gods with its im- passioned shock. Deep-mouthed, I, earthquake, wake in echoing thunder. I break my mother’s breast ; I tear asunder The womb that bore me; I arise in terror, Threatening…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…tterest woes and black, Constraining eloquence and mighty thrall Of cosmic agony, and wrung me back From my poor plea to challenge in my song The whole domain of deeply-seated law, Taunch thunders not Olympic at the strong Bars of the Order backed with strength and awe That men call Will of Zeus: the after scheme And primal fate and most primordial plan Shaped from the earth’s first protoplasmic dream Up to the last great mischief that is man. All this I challenge: that the suns and stars Work in due order and procession meet Without caprice in…
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… the sacred throng Of heroes into acts that fared In Argo light and long, The foes they fought, the feats they dared, In shadow-show and song. (The play of Argonautae is sha- dowed before them by Or- pheus’ magtcal might.) So faded all the dream: so stole Some fearful fondness in her soul ; Even as a cloud thrilled sharply through With lightning’s temper keen and true, Splitting the ether: so again Grew on me the ecstatic pain, Seeing her tremble in mid-air. No flower so exquisitely fair Shakes out its petals at the dawn ; No breath so beautifu…
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…e earth and the moon Shudder, as if fate Were involved in the tune? The portals of hate Shake at the rune Of the magical nature-cry, the song from the mountains hewn ! To the horrible hollow In Tartarus steep, O song of me, follow ! I flee to the deep. That word of Apollo Shall shudder and leap ; That word in the uttermost night shall awake them who know not of sleep. Ilear, O ye Three, In the innermost pit Dwellers that be! Tartarus, split ! Arise unto me For I call ye with wit Of the words that constrain and compel, of the summons ordered and…
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… By hell’s clamour. How did The strength that has sinned Avail in the crowded Abodes of the wind? By lightning of rapture The soul of my song My love doth recapture ; Lead up to the long Years in blithe measure Of summer and ease ; Linger at leisure For passion and peace. Sadness and pleasure Relent and release :— A torrent, a treasure, A garden of Greece ! Selene, our sister, ¢ Our lover and friend, Thy light hath long missed her : That hour hath an end. All zons to squander We chance at our will: We may woo, work or wander Through time to our…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…ience of these solemnities ? AE ACUS. Child of the earth and heaven, Our spirits thou hast riven With words we must admit, with power of song—whence given? Neither of God nor man, Thy song’s amazing span Hath caused strange joy among the woes Tartarean. RHADAMANTHUS. Never in the centuries Till godlike Heracles Burst the wild bonds, hath mortal found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer wrong. We know these words are jus…
1907 · PDF PAGE 198
…ed life to Heracles. Thou mockest me with power ; Thy sceptre’s awful dower Avails me nothing. Shall a mortal bring Such pity wrapped in song And Echo’s choral throng Of all things live and dead to hear me sing ;— And I by pity moved and love Have not thy voice to grant him grace thereof ? Inexorable Lord ! Accursed and abhorred Of men, begin in Hell to show thy grace ! Not to a man’s weak life, Not to thy shuddering wife, But to the queen’s unfathomable face Dread beyond sorcery and prayer, And fearful even because it is so fair! Yea, from the…
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…l or dire, Life, death, let them throng to the lyre, All sealed with the marvellous seals ! Let them live in my sob, let them love in my song, let them even be I! Let me in most various song Be seasons, be rivers that roll, Be stars, the untameable throng, All parts of the ultimate whole; All nature in various attire Be woven to one tune of the lyre, One tune where a million belong— Multitudinous murmur and moan, melodious, one soul with my soul ! One soul with the wail of distress The ravished Persephone flung ; One soul with the song of succe…
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…dipped my lyre in the sweet Heliconian stream ! Give praise to your lord, All souls that draw breath, All flowers of the sward ! For the song of me saith: ‘¢ Sound the loud chord ! Let love be a wreath ! Death is not for ye any more, for I am the Master of Death!” PARABASIS.! As I sit in the sound Of the wash of the surf, On the long low ground, The trees and the turf; In front the profound, The warrior seas, Upstirred of the breeze, by the far reef bound— I know the low music of love, I feel the sweet murmur in me, My soul is in tune with the …
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…irst of Lesbian lamentations Still shall burn from zeon to idle zon ! (Chorus, epithalmy, ode, and pzean Dumb or dishevelled !) Still my songs shall murmur across the nations, Gain their meed of misery, praise, and yearning, Smite their stroke on centuries foully burning, Drunk or bedevilled. Song? No beauty shine in a sphere of music! Me? my voice be dull, be a void, be toneless ! Match me, sea! than me thou hast many a moan less, Many a million ! Sun, be broken! dew sick ! Ocean flat and poisonous, earth demented ! Living souls go shuddering …
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LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 213 The secret corruption of ages ORYPUREUS. Ye cling to, and hold as ye can, Apollo! And abandon the songs of the sages For Passion—and Pan ! O thou heart of hate and inmost terror! O thou soul of subtle fear and Just ! Loathsome shape of infamy, thy mirror Shown as spirit or displayed as dust ! O thou worm in every soul of matter Crawling, feasting, rotting; slime of hell ! Beat and batter! shear and shatter ! Break the egg that hides thee well! Pan! I call thee! Pan! I see thee in thy whirling citadel. I alone of all…
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…Holds one divinest gate: the other troven Far, far beyond in interlunar skies, Where the Himalayas stir them, and arise To listen to the song that swells our arteries. O moving labyrinth sun-crowned, dread maze Ofstarry paths, of Zeus-untrodden ways, Of mystic vales unfooted of the deep, Our mother, virgin yet in many places Unseen of man, beholden of the faces Only of elemental shapes of sleep That are ourselves, her daughters wild and fair Caught nymphwise in the kisses of the air, That flings our songs reverberate from steep to steep, Songs …
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194 ORPHEUS For my purpose is swift, And my vengeance strong ; I shall not shift ; I shall cry the wrong. My voice I uplift In terrible song As your forms take shape before me in the} likeness for which ye long. The shape of my passion And bitter distress Shall clothe ye, and fashion An equal dress. Ye shall force compassion With awful stress From the soul that hath mocked me, and turned his heart from my song’s excess. The ruler of Hell, The invisible Lord, Hath laughed at my spell, Hath slept at my word. He hath heard me well— Awake, O Sword …
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… of the time, The golden youth stands in the golden prime, Erect, acute, astrain. We look and long For those bronze lips to blossom into song. He is silent. We reflect. Ourselves grown old Yearn somewhat toward that sensuous glow of gold. All this is folly. Rodin made him so, Evoked the strength, the goodliness, the glow. The form is little: in the mind there dwells Force to avail the childish heart that swells With aught that is. The golden prime is past— Aye! but a nobler gain is ours at last Who see man weary, but within our span The perfect…
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LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 153 I hear not a word, Though my music be rolled As the song of a bird Through fields of gold. Hast thou not heard? Have I not told The magic that bridleth the Gods, the Gods in their houses of old? Art thou elder than they In their mountain of light? Is thy fugitive way Lost in uttermost night? Shalt thou not obey, Or my lyre not affright, If I call thee by Heaven and Earth with a God’s tumultuous might? If I curse thee or chide Shalt thou tremble not, Thou? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my a…