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ACTUS PRIMUS 87 JASON. Where is the son of ‘Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. Iolchus’ King has here a dwelling-place. WOMEN. See you the sword shake—and the iron hand Not shaking? The man’s mood is full of wrath. MEN. Peace, foolish! Were it so, we would not see. WOMEN. Ay me! this stranger seems most ominous. JASON, Where is the son of Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. This is the Palace-place of Pelias, Son of Poseidon, of Iolchus King. JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great A…
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THE ARGONAUTS* 1904 ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS PRIMUS. JASON. PELIAS, JASON. Semz-chorus of Lolchian Men. Sewmz-chorus of Lolchian Women. SCENE: The Throne-chamber of KING PELIAS. SEMI-CHORUS OF MEN. THE prophecies are spoken in vain, The auguries vainly cast, Since twenty years of joyous reign In peace are overpast ; And those who cursed our King’s desires Are branded in the brow for liars. SEMI-CHORUS OF WOMEN. We heard the aged prophet speak The doom of woe and fear. We wait with blanched and icy cheek The one-and-twentieth year : For Justice lies, a…
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… Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods ! CHORUS. If only he Know who he is—that all these gods and men And things are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you hope. Await the end. CHORUS. We fear indeed that in the trap Of wiles our king is taken. Lachesis shakes a careless lap And dooms divine awaken ! A desolate and cruel hap In this sad hour is shaken. The desperate son and violent Of Helios hath designed A fate more hard than Pelias meant, Revolving in his mind Mischief to catch the coiled …
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…d 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 fort impregnable Against my love: instead the deep disgust Of my own beasthood crushed it into dust, And left my manhood twisted in her . spell. THE THIRD DAY. ‘* My love is most immaculate white and red, ”’ Love's Labour's Lost, SHE was more graceful than the royal palm ; Tall, with imperial l…
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…|Zurns wth a cry to throne and flings up his hands. and I will! Death! Death! It is a year to-night. I arrayed her first In yon gold ornaments—-My brain is sick ! I want coffee—or hashish—No! That is for her ! I must be very clear and calm, very clear, very calm, How I must be ill— [Correcting himself with effort.) I I must be. Ha! [Goes to altar, opens it, takes out a flask filled with a clear pale blue liquor with rosy stars of light in 7t, pours it into a long vial, and holds 7t to the light. The room ts lighted by electricity, the globes be…
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…adict. JASON. He who speaks much and bitterly at last Lays himself open to retort. I think I never heard such contradictions fly As when men talk of gods—that never were ! ARGUS. Thou wouldst do better to leave men alone. The wisest talk is folly when work waits. Look ! how these sturdy villains gape around, Fling down their task, and hang upon the words That flow like nectar from your majesty. 1 The gibe in these twenty lines is against Rudyard Kipling’s silly vitalisation of machinery, and his ignorance even of the correct terms, CASTOR. In t…
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…it and And what they name material tinct, Tet us in Are really one, not two, the line vestigate the By which divide they and define fundamental necessities of Being a shadowy sort of test ; thought. A verbal lusus at the best, At worst a wicked lie devised To bind men’s thoughts ; but we must work With our own instruments, nor shirk Discarding what we erstwhile prized ; Should we perceive it disagree With the first-born necessity. I come to tell you why I shun Impermanence The sight of men, the life and fun of the soul. You know I can enjoy so …
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156 THE SWORD OF - SONG Mysticism does not need Christ. Krishna will serve, or the Carpenter. The Sacred Walrus. God, some Vestments, and Lady Wim- borne. Fearful aspect of John ili, 16. Universalism. Will God get the bara* slam? Eternal life. Divergent views of its desirability. Buddhist idea. Dogma of Belief. - But if you drink your mystic fill * Great slam-—a term of Bridge-Whist. + John iii, 18, ‘‘ He that believeth not is condemned already.”’ Under the good tree Igdrasil © Where is at all your use for Christ? Hath Krishna not at all suffic…
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… faith? Or how far can we proceed even from partial truth, unless a perfectly open mind be kept regarding it, aware that some new pheno- menon may possibly overthrow our most fun- damental hypotheses! Give me a reasonable proof of some (intelligent) existence which is not liable to sorrow, and I will throw the First Noble Truth to the dogs without a pang. And, knowing this, how splendid is it to read the grand words uttered more than two thousand years ago: ‘‘ Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betak…
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… The biograph is a sufficient proof of this. ecstatic attains an illumination (so-called) at the expense of sober reason and solid judg- ment.” Mysticus would not, I think, wish to contest this view, but rather would argue that if this be the case, it is at least a choice between two evils. Sober reason and solid judgment offer no prize more desirable than death after a number of years, less or greater, while ecstasy can, if the facts stated in this dialogue are accepted, give the joys of all these years in a moment. But for the sake of argumen…
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…. Dismissal craves?! Nay, scowls and slinks among his slaves. Hath ever a slave in story dared Thus to beard openly his lord? My chariot men leapt forth and flared Against him with indignant sword. Why wait for king’s word to expunge Life so detested with one lunge? “Cease!” My strong word flamed out. The men Shook with dead fear. caught With savage instinct, brutal ken, At what should be my crueller thought : Torture! And trembled lest their haste Had let a dear life run to waste. They jumped and They argued after their brute kind. I have two …
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…be no longer any doubt of his complete insanity; for three weeks he had been raving with absinthe and satyriasis. He survived his confinement no long time ; the burning of the asylum with its in- mates was one of the most terrible events of the war of 1870. So died one of the must talented Englishmen of his century, a man who for wide knowledge of men and things was truly to be envied, yet one who sold his birthright for a mess of beastlier pottage than ever Esau guzzled, who sold soul and body to Satan for sheer love of sin, whose mere lust of…
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…s assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they ‘‘ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine brass Was set on marble, with an iron style That all might carve within that golden space If one grief came—and still the people pass, And since the city first began None wrote one word thereon till one—a man Witty in spite of happiness—wrote there : ‘*T grieve because the tablet is so fair And still stands bare, Ther…
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…nd 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 Some end beyond our mortal ken, Thy soul impenetrably wise Shines not to us unthinking men. O guard the warrior band of Greece, And win for us the Golden Fleece ! By miracle this happy day The ship is finished for our quest. Bring thou the glory from the gray ! Bring thou our spirits into rest ! O Wisdom, that hast he…
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…tarnished (and even this is not everywhere the case), its methods, its organisation, are sadly in need of repair; research must be done, men must be perfected, error must be fought. And if,in the West a great Buddhist society is built up of men of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lies, there is then an awakening, a true redemption, of the weary and forgetful Empires of the East. X THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH. To return from our little digression to the original plan of our essay. It is time to note the ‘‘ Noble Eightfold Path,” refe…
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TIME 273 that Halley’s Comet, being the sole measure of time in use on his farm, was 133° S., entering Capricorn, at the very moment of the blow being struck. Myst. Tam glad you join me in ridicule of the scheme ; but do you quite grasp how serious the situation has become? Scept. I confess I do not see whither you would lead me. Your own computation strikes one as fantastic in the extreme. Myst, Who knows? Think, yourself, of certain abnormal and pathological pheno- mena, whose consideration might lay down the bases for a possible argument. Sc…
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88 THE ARGONAUTS WOMEN. Here is the ugly monster! Out! To think 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. Ye…
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…ence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived —if he lived. Slavery was hated. A million men* died about it, and it was cast out of everywhere but the hearts of men.t Euripides hated Greek religion, and he killed the form thereof. Does Our J.ogician argue from these facts the vital…
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…al magic that toyed.” Granted. Astronomy’s no myth, But it produced Piazzi Smyth. What crazes actors ? Why do surgeons Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons? (These questions are the late Chas. Spur- geon’s.) Of yogi I could quote you hundreds In science, law, art, commerce noted. They fear no lunacy: their one dread’s Not for their noddles doom-devoted. They are not like black bulls (that shunned reds In vain) that madly charge the goathead Of rural Pan, because some gay puss Had smeared with blood his stone Priapus. They are as sane as politic…
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…ter being written. I can remember no more of it than the above; nor willinspiration return, —A, C. He danced the measure golden. On dead men... His Saints and Rishis ' olden, : The yogins that... He trampled them to dustand they Were sparks and no more clay. The dust thrown up around Him _ In cycles whirled and twined, Dim sparks that fled and found Him Like mist beyond the mind. The universe was peopled then With little gods, and men. In that ecstatic whirling He saw not nor . He knew not in His fervour Creation’s sated sigh ; The groan of the…