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…w that the very crystals feel !— 620 For them no harp-resounding court, No palm, no crown, but none the less A cross, be sure! The worst man’s thought In hell itself, bereft of bliss, Were less unmerciful than this! 625 No! for material things, I hear, Will burn away, and cease to be— (Nibbana! Ah! Thou shoreless Sea !) Man, man alone, is doomed to fear, To suffer the eternal woe, 630 Or else, to meet man’s subtle foe, God—and oh! infamy of terror! Be like him—like him! And for ever! At least I make not such an error: My soul must utterly disse…
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…nk We once believed him reverend and refined, Saw majesty in all that tottering gait, And honour in the goat-like beard of him ! FIRST WOMAN. A week ago your blue eyes were in tears, Sidelong regarding the old mountebank. SECOND WOMAN. To-day I would not be his concubine For all Iolchus—for all Thessaly ! THIRD WOMAN. I see the same glance seek out Jason now. SECOND WOMAN. Ay, there's a man! What muscles! What fine fire In the quick eye! What vigour and warm strength ! FIRST WOMAN. Yes, in your wishes. But indeed he is A proper man. Away, you a…
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…aw, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self- restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdonr’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect. Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The earnest one who meditates derives the highest rapture thence. When the wise man by Earnestness hath Vanity to chaos hurled '{e mounts to wisdom’s palace, looks s…
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…e. They jumped and They argued after their brute kind. I have two prides ; in justice, one: In mercy, one: ‘‘ No ill I find In this just man,” I cried; ‘‘the sun Is not defiled, and takes no hurt When the worm builds his house of dirt. ‘Curse ye Jehovah! He abides, Hears not, nor smites; the curse is pent Close with the speaker; ill betides When on himself the curve is bent, And like the wild man’s il]-aimed blow,? Hlits nought, swerves, swoops, and strikes him low. 1 In the East the inferior dare not leave the presence of his superior without …
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1902 mvs AN WITH nye O Man, of a daring nature, thou subtle pro- | duction ! Thou wilt not comprehend it, as when under- standing some common thing. ORACLES OF ZOROASTER. IN presenting this theory of the Universe to the world, I have but one hope of making any profound impression, viz.—that my theory has the merit of explaining the divergences between three great forms of religion now existing in the world—Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, and of adapting them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of Mohamme- …
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2 ORACLES Your age and sex forbid, old man, I need not tell you how, Or else I’d knock you down, old man, Like that extremist cow.} You've gained your every seat, my friend, By perjuring your soul ; You’ve climbed to Downing Street, my friend, A very greasy poll. You bear a traitor’s brand, old man, You bear a liar’s brand ; I will zo¢ shake thy hand, old man, I will ot shake thy hand. [And I didn’t. THE BALLOON. Written (at the age of fifteen, and still unsur- passed) while in bed with measles at Ton- bridge in Kent, FLOATING in the summer air…
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…etch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man, destructive of worship, is of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Materialism, or something of the sort. But if, then, we call…
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…| 181 But as for me | have a test Fifty years of Of better than the very best. murope worth lespice finem! Judge the end ; . Cathay. The man, and not the child, my friend ! Method of First ecstasy of Pentecost, Beets Chr (You now perceive my sermon’s text.) tian, First leap to Sunward flings you vexed By glory of its own riposte Back to your mind. But gathering strength And nerve, you come (ah hght !) at length To dwell awhile in the caress Of that strange super-consciousness. After one memory —O abide ! Vivid Savitri lightning-eyed !— Nothing …
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…le creature he had so foolishly married. Cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. Theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man’s failing mind; yet a most righteous determination not to allow the happiness of the English people to depend upon his whims. Bad women would have rejoiced in the banish- ment of Kent, whom they already knew to be their enemy; these truly good women regret it. ‘‘Such unconstant starts are we like to have from him as this of Kent’s banishment ” (Act I. Se. i. I. 304-5). In Scene ii. Edmund is shown; he feel…
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…What! the work? CHORUS. ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Alas! Alas! the work! JASON. MEDEA. Thy father? ALCESTIS. Slain ! CHORUS. Ai Ai! the old man slain ! MEDEA. Ai Ai! ALCESTIS, Ai Ai! MEDEA. The strong spell broken? ALCESTIS. Nay, but thoughts arose, So many thoughts—or ever I was ware— And he—the caldron seethes —— MEDEA. He rises not? . ALCESTIS. Nought but moist smoke springs up. MEDEA. Alas! for me! All is but lost. ALCESTIS. Canst thou do anything? What ! Shall the hunter find his joy abroad, And sorrow in his house? MEDEA. Thy very hearth Pol…
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…of our Queen Athena! mystery and might ; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep ; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep ; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban king; And armed men shall spring from earth In vain to ward the gloomy girth ! But thou, Athena, didst devise …
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… EDITOR 59 able interruption as Mr. Shandy,! and from behind the hideous yellow partition came sounds as of the constant babbling of a human voice. Repeated glances in this direction drew from my entertainer the in- formation that it was ‘‘only her husband,”’ indicating the yellow-haired girl with the stem of her short clay pipe. She added that he was dying. Curiosity, Compassion’s Siamese prompted a desire to see the sufferer. The old lady rose, not without difficulty, lifted the curtain, and let it fall behind me as I entered the gloom which …
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…Y OF AN ART* 1GO5 THE DEATH OF THE DRUNKARD.} I. TERROR, and darkness, and hor:id despair ! Agony painted upon the once fair Brow of the man who refused to give up The love of the wine-filled, the o’erflowing cup. ‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” No wine in death is his torment assuaging. Il. Just what the parson had told me when young: Just what the people in chapel have sung: ‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” Desunt cetera. A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES. In the hospital bed she lay, Rotting away ! Cursing by night and cursing …
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40 ORACLES Silent and sleeping-—O the waters wan That seem the soul of man !— Suddenly darkness strikes the horizon round With an abyss profound That blots the half-moon ere the sun be set. A mountain of pure jet Rears its sheer bulk to heaven; and nosnows Tinge evening with rose. No blaze of noon invades those rocks of night, Nor moon’s benignant might. And looking downward he beheld his folk Bound in no tyrant’s yoke ; Knowing no God, nor fearing any man ; Life’s enviable span Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assu…
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… no wild Erinyes For thee a guest in these my halls, for thee Whose hands are dipped not yet in blood so deep As to have murdered an old man, and him Thy father’s brother? JASON. Justice covers all. The Furies cannot follow if a man To his own heart be reconciled. They feed On his own bosom, nay ! are born thereof. An alien clan he might elude, but these, Blood of his blood, he shall nor slay nor *scape.’ My heart hath never pastured on regret Or pang for thee. My justice covers all. PELIAS. That one word “ justice ” covers all indeed To thine …
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…om the deep Sob through Night’s golden net, And waft upon the wings of sleep The name of Margaret. ALICE: AN ADULTERY. ‘‘Commit not with man’s sworn spouse.” King Lear. \GAINST the fiat of that God discrowned, Unseated by Man’s justice, and replaced, By Law most bountiful and maiden-faced And mother-minded: passing the low bound Of man’s poor law we leapt at last and found Passion ; and passing the dim halls dis- graced Found higher love and larger and more chaste, Acalm sphinx waiting in secluded ground. Hear the sad rhyme ot how love turned t…
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…oy unmarred by pain and grief: Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain, Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby each life laments and hangs, (Now as I speak a lizard TM lies In wait for light-bewildered flies)
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…on’s hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll *’ when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny real…
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…st the popu- larity of the worthless novel, as shown in Free Library statistics ; or against the uselessness of any form of reading to a man not otherwise educated. austere and single-minded labourers in the fields of Physics and Physiology. Myst. Here, moreover, is the foundation of race harmony ; here the possible basis for a genuine brotherhood of man! * He will never be permanently solidarised-—excuse the neologism !—by grandiose phrase and tran- sitory emotion; but in the Freemasonry of the Adepts of Dhyana what temple may not yet be build…
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…e shed upon our life, We clung still closer, till the soul ran through Body to body, twined like sunny snakes, Sinlessly knowing we were man and wife. THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY. “ Mal, Dispute it like a man. Macd. , I shall do so. But I must also feel it as a man.” Macbeth. | I HAD a fearful dream (on going away) Of scorpion women curled in my caress, And twenty days they closed on my distress ) Not giving me relief, but gold and gray, 1 Cornelius Agrippa distinguishes three frenzies; of Apollo, Dionysus, and Aphrodite; song, wine, and love.