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v1 CONTENTS PAGE ALICE: AN ADULTERY— Continued CALIFORNIA MARGARET . . A ALICE: AN ADULTERY . THE First Day THE SikconD Day THE THIRD Day THE FourrH Day REINCARNATION THE FirrH Day THE SIXTH Day THE SEVENTH DAy THE EIGHTH Day THE NINTH Day THE TreENtTH Day THE ELEVENTH Day THE TWELFTH Day Rep Porry a Trt THIRTEENTH Day THE FOURTEENTH Day THe FIFTEENTH DAY THE SIXTEENTH DAY ALICE . . . THE SEVENTEENTH DAY LOVE AND FEAR THE EIGHTEENTH Day THE NINETEENTH Day THE TWENTIETH Day ° THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY. THE TWENTY-SECOND DAy THt TWENTY-THIRD Day THt T…
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216 AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM Dona Virginis. Puella Urget Sophiam Sod- alibus. The Sophic Suggler. The first day, a camel ; The second day, a kiss ; The third day, a star-glass ; The fourth day, a bectle’s wing; The fifth day, a crab ; The sixth day, a bow ; The seventh day, a quiver; The eighth day, a stag; The ninth day, an horn; The tenth day, a sandal of silver ; The eleventh day, a silver box of white sandal wood ; The twelfth day, a whisper ; The thirteenth day, a black cat; The fourteenth day, a phial of white gold ; The fifteenth day…
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78 ALICE: AN ADULTERY THE DAY WITHOUT A NUMBER. ‘*© never shall the sun that morrow see.” Macbeth. WE lost a day! Nor kisses, nor regret, Nor fear, nor pain, nor anything at all! The day was lost, evanished past recall, That saw no sunrise, never saw sun set— For East and West invisibly were met In gateways neither glad nor musical Nor melancholy nor funereal. Nought is there to remember nor forget. Yet in my westward journey many hours I stole, and now must pay them back again. I plucked not one flower, but an hundred flowers ; I bore an hundr…
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CONTENTS Vil THE SWORD OF SONG PRELIMINARY INVOCATION— NOTHUNG . . INTRODUCTION TO ‘‘ ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST ” ASCENSION Day. PENTECOST . . . . NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST— NOTE TO INTRODUCTION NOTES ‘}O ASCENSION DAY. NOTES TO PENTECOST. AMBROSII MAGI HORTUS RO- SARUM PAGE 140 141 141 144 164 185 190 203 212 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS— I. IT, Ill, IV. V. VI. VI. VITl. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. 225 226 226 226 227 227 227 228 228 229 230 231 231 nMwvsxia— AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY . SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM-- I. IT. ITT. IV. V. VI. VII. VITI. I…
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THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY 73 THE EIGHTEENTH DAY. ‘Touches so soft still conquer chastity.”’ Passionate Pilgrim. SHE grew most fearful, starting at slight noise ; As knowing that the sting of shame was hers Worse than a guilty love administers, Since our pure shame unworthily destroys The love of all she had, her girls and boys, Her home, their lives: and yet my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion, and deters Her fear from spurning all the day’s due joys. She had not dared to speak one word, to tell How deep and pure a fountain sunward leapt In…
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…t breath from Artemis— Breasts met and arms enclosed, and all the spring Grew into summer with the first long kiss. pulse THE FOURTEENTH DAY. ‘* Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow’s bliss; There be fools alive, I wis.” Merchant of Venice. ALL day we chose each moment possible When to the other’s face each face might cling, Each kiss burn forth, a double fiery sting -Exalting us in joy foreseen to swell A mighty exultation ; it befell, However, that I saw the shadowy thing Lurk behind love, and flap a scornful wing, Seeing o…
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THE FORTY-FIRST DAY SI THE THIRTY-NINTH DAY. ‘* Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love That inward beauty and invisible.”’ Venus and Adonis, Nore from this day no possible event. All secrets told, and all desires fulfilled Primitive passion of our soul have killed. .We dwell within a calmer element Perfectly pure and perfectly content. The subtler splendour of our love has stilled Those sombre glories that it never willed, Those giant meanings that it never meant. Fire only is our substance; there we dwell, The Salamandrine with the Salaman…
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ASCENSION DAY 163 745 750 735 760 765 770 775 That worthy Yankee millionaire, And wealthy nephews, young and fair, The pleasing Crawfords ! Lost ! Lost! Lost ! % “The Holy Spirit, friend! beware !” Ah ! ten days yet to Pentecost ! The reader Come that, I promise you—-but stay ! may hope. At-present ’tis Ascension Day ! At least your faith should be content. Summary. I quarrel not with this event. Reader os: The supernatural element? chapel. ° I deny nothing—at the term It is just Nothing I affirm. The fool (with whom is wisdom, deem The Scriptu…
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185 190 200 210 te id ov ASCENSION DAY Panel * in libel I bewail me! (Funny how English seems to fail me !) So, as a surgeon to a man, sir, Let me excise your Christian cancer Impersonally, without vanity, Just in pure love of poor humanity ! Here’s just the chance you'd have! Behold The warm sun tint with early gold Yon spire: to-day’s event provide My text of wrath—Ascension-tide ! Oh ! ’tis a worthy day to wrest Hate’s diadem from Jesus’ Crest ! Ascends he? ’Tis the very test By which we men may fairly judge, From the rough roads we mortals …
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THE TENTH DAY 67 THE EIGHTH DAY. ‘* A certain aim he took At a fair Vestal thronéd by the West.”’ Midsummer Night's Dream. HERE in the extreme west of all the earth This Vestal sate; and I from Cupid’s bow Loosed a fair shaft of verses shapen so As to fling love through the chaste girdle’s girth, And show my love how meek was my love’s birth, How innocent its being: thus arow Stood the mild lines, immaculate, to show My harmless passion and her own great worth. She could not be offended: and moreover— When at the nightfall I sought Heaven’s lig…
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THE THIRTY-SIXTH DAY 79 She never told: but I might surely see In the drawn face and haggard eyes what vast Voices of misery had held her fast, And made her curse her own lock’s cruelty. So by her beauty and my love we swore, And by the light within mine eyes, by her Sweet shame: that never so we sunder again. But she: ‘‘ You swear ‘by thy bright face’ in vain; ‘ By thy sweet self’ you grow a perjurer; Who have shamed my face and made me but an whore.” THE THIRTY-FOURTH DAY. ‘* Ben. Stop there, stop there. Mer. Thou desirest me to stop in my ta…
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82 ALICE: AN ADULTERY THE FORTY-SECOND DAY. ** Pol. No longer stay. Leon. One seven-night longer. Pol, Very sooth, to-morrow.” Winter's Tale. I COULD not let her leave me the day after. Also we must wait till the month decide Whether the mother stood behind the bride. In any other case what love and laughter Such tidings of an angel’s birth would waft her; Now, what a fear! And so she would abide Another vessel and another tide, Until we held the key of the hereafter. But this sad spectre could not change our calm. The day went by more peaceful…
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…d, did not love enchain There even as here: what mattered aught at all While love was hovering and our lips were fain ? THE FORTY-EIGHTH DAY. ‘ Tet us return And strain what other means is left to us In our dear peril.” Timon of Athens. Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, The six months glory of life past on earth About to yield to Hades’ bridal birth, The world’s sad sympathy with Perse- phone. | | Yet I myself, while tuning to her kéy My sighs of sorrow, mused in secret mirth: ‘‘T am convinced at last of money’s worth, For lack of which …
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THE FORTY-SEVENTH DAY 83 But born of strings intangible, of spheres Shaken of love, a mightier music’s might Frailer to sound than dewfall is to sight ! Wake, O sweet soul incorporate of tears! Or else dream on and let no tears begem Love’s crown of thorns, ensanguine diadem, But let pale kisses blossom, starry shrine Of lips most deathlike, that endure divine _ Past sleep’s, or parting’s, or death’s spoil of them In the pomegranate walks of Proser- pine !! THE FORTY-FIFTH DAY. ‘Peace, fool! I have not done.” Troilus and Cressida, THovu knowest…
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74 ALICE: AN ADULTERY Cold and inténse ; the one-and-twentieth day They drew my life out, one exceeding stress, Volcanic anguish !—Here’s the strange €XCESS: I called, ere waking, on the name Eheteh ! Solve me the riddle of the dream who can ! That night I sought a new toy for a lure, And she would not: but knew how hard to endure | Is love like ours, the love of purity. So she: “ Dispute it like a man!” and I: “* But I must also feel it as a man!” Note. Eheieh is the Hebrew for ‘‘I] am that Iam.” Its numerical value is 21. I was not aware at t…
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NOTES 201 Browning to be called ‘‘ Ascension Day and |: Pentecost’ was conceived (and resolved upon) on Friday, November 15, 1901. On that day I left Ceylon, where I had been for several months, practising Hindu meditations, and exposing the dishonesty of the Missionaries, in the intervals of big game shooting. The follow- ing day I wrote ‘‘ Ascension Day,” and ‘‘ Pente- cost” on the Sunday, sitting outside the dak-bangla at Madura. were small as compared to the present poems. Ascension Day consisted of :— p. 144, I flung-... p. 146, Pray do...…
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THE THIRTIETH DAY 77 Of love recks little of eternity— And though the moon is dying, ourselves may swoon, One deathless shape of the breasted moon. large- THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY. ‘* But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.” » Twelfth- Night. A CURIOUS conflict this of love and fear, Honour and lust, and truth and trust beguiled; One in the semblance of a rose-bright child :— The other in a shape more gross and | clear, za flercer woman-figure crowned severe With garlands…
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REINCARNATION 65 THE SECOND DAY. ‘* Keep you in the rear of your affection Out of the shot and danger of desire."’ Hamlet. I wAs so hopeless that I turned away And gave my love to foul oblivion, . Shuttered my bosom’s window from the sun, Kindled a corpse-light and proclaimed ‘*The day!” ; Lurked in Aeaean! fens to elude the ray Whose beauty might disturb me: I did shun. The onyx eyes that saw me not as one Possible even for a moment’s play. Thus I was tangled in some house of hell, Giving mine own soul’s beauty up to lust, Hoping to build some…
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ASCENSION DAY Curious posi- J] FLUNG out of chapel! * and church, tion of poet. Temple and hall and meeting-room, Venus’ Bower and Osiris’ Tomb,? And left the devil in the lurch, While God ? got lost in the crowd of gods,! And soul went down ® in the turbid tide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred th…
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…ove and die, I care not: either way I understand. To me—to live is Christ ; to die is gain: For I, I also, I shall come again. THE FIFTH DAY. ‘Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.” Richard Il. ALL thought of work is almost cast aside. I followed like a dog the way she went, Speaking but seldom, very well content To day-dream, oft imagining a bride, A wife, a lover, even a sister, tied By some soft bond of twinning: thus I blent A real joy with a brighter element Of fancy free to wander far and wide. For as I followed by the shore and ben…