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1939 · PDF PAGE 8

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…the Grand Parade, I’ll build me a hut of wattle. The corkscrew seems to have got mislaid? Then smash the neck of the bottle! Courage and will and a whack will aid, Though the corkscrew seem to have got mislaid. Anatomists say that a single wing Isn’t much for a bird to fly on. There’s not much ginger about the spring Of the fiercest one-legged lion. Another bottle’s the obvious thing To get the ginger into our spring. Beloved brethren, listen to me! If there’s one truth of divinity Clear, it’s the virtue there is in Three, And I myself was at T…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 9

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…alive, And I see there’s a bottle handy. Open it Bill! There’s only Five. It may be the thing to keep us alive. The Road of Excess, said William Blake, To the Palace of Wisdom leads one; Open a bottle for Wisdom’s sake! And I am the boy that needs one. It’s a long, long way, but it’s good to take— Open a bottle for Mishter Blake! At the door of Burgess’ Fish Sauce Shop She stood, oh, how does it go, boys? Well, “truly rural” will do for the cop, If you say it quiet and slow, boys. Why the devil should anyone stop, When “truly rural” will do for…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 7

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

In my passionate pilgrimage, Love, for Love is the Will toward change. Love is a lust and a prayer, and the soul of its act as its word Is of them that were Two to make One, and to seal the Event with a Third. Oh, Love, Astarte sea-born, oh Star blue bright in the West, I invoke thee, thy priest in the shrine that is built of my blood in my breast! Since thou art in me and of me, since thou art the heart of my heart, The soul of my soul, nay, the skin of my skin, not a being apart, I am thou, I accept the intent, acquiesce in the nature implied…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 10

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…antons or weeps, no thought in its silence supreme. I sit, and am utterly still; in mine eyes is my fathomless lust Ablaze to annihilate Will, to crumble my being to dust, To calcine the dust to an ash, to burn up the ash to an air, To abolish the air with the flash of the final, the fulminant flare. All this I have done, and dissolved the primordial germ of my thought; I have rolled myself up, and revolved the wheel of my being to Naught. Is there even the memory left? That I was, that I am? It is lost. As I utter the Word, I am cleft by the l…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 11

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…lly flowered with the blossom of possible Aim. I am Necessity? Scry Necessity mother of Fate! And Fate determines me “I”; and I have the Will to create. Vast is the sphere, but it turns on itself like the prettiest star, And I am the looby that learns that all things equally are. Inscrutable Nothing, the Gods, the cosmos of Fire and of Mist. Suns, atoms, the clouds and the clods ineluctable dare to exit— I have made the Voyage of Thought, the Voyage of Vision, I swam To the heart of the Ocean of Naught from the source of the Spring of I Am: I k…

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