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I68 IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH deed of mere brute muscle and nerve ! Thence, by great Will new-freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarcophagus ! an end ! an end ! Resounds the echo in the stone, in- calculable myriads of tons poised in gigantic balance overhead, abou…
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A WELCOME TO JABEZ Reprinted from the Eastbourne Chronicle. GREAT organiser, come again, Thy country needs thee sadly ; In Scotland Yard they all complain They “ want ” thee, oh ! so badly. Thou canst not tell the signs and sobs That for thy presence yearn ; And the great heart of England throbs With joy at thy return. For many a year prolong thy stay By Portland’s shady harbour ; And all expenses we will pay— Especially the barber. A change of work is rest, they say, So honest toil shall rest thee ; No fears that thou must go away Need haunt t…
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I66 IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH synthesised, the whole was sorrow and despair ; agony biting through the fair ; meanness, contemptibility, en- throned ; all proposeless, all unatoned ; all putrid of a hope, all vacant of a soul. I called upon its master, as who should call on God. Instead, arose a shining form, sweet as a whisper of soft air kissing the brows of a great storm ; his face with light was molten, musical with waves of his delight moving across : his countenance utterly fair ! then was my philosophic vision shamed : conjecture at…
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…istant sea Moaning, and here the wind that wails, the drear Groans like a ghost’s, the desolate house of fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house ! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlesticks illume The agèd book, the blackness blazoned o’er With golden characters and scarlet bloom Twined in the blue-tinged sigils wrought for doom, And dreadful names of necromancer’s lore Written therein : so stood my room before When the hissed whisper came, “ Beware ! Beware ! They’re coming ! ” and “ They’re coming ! ” when…
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…EARL’S QUEST I51 EVE I58 THE SIBYL I59 LA COUREUSE I60 TO “ ELIZABETH ” I6I SONNET FOR A PICTURE I62 RONDELS (AT MONTE CARLO) I63 IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH I65 THE HILLS I69
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IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH I67 mere nothing. But in me arose a peace profounder than Himalayan snows cooped in their crystalline ravines. I saw the ultimation of the one wise law. I stood in the King’s Chamber, by the tomb of slain Osiris, in the Pyramid and looked down the Great Gallery, deep, deep into the hollow of earth ; grand gloom burned royally therein ; I was well hid in the shadow ; here I realized myself to be in that sepulchral sleep wherein were mirrored all these things of mystery. So the long passage steeply sliding ever up t…
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…hell but earth. Vain are the falsehoods that subserve to mirth. Dust is to dust, create or uncreate. The wheel is bounded by the world’s great girth. By prayer and penance unregenerate, Redeemed by no man’s sacrifice or worth, We swing : no mortal knows his ultimate. There is no hell but earth. II In all the skies the planets and the stars Receive us, where our fate in order plies. Somewhere we live between the savage bars In all the skies. 163
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…nd the songs of One who saith : “ There is no peace for him who lingereth.” Love is a cinder now that was a coal : Either were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know Indeed that he is caught therein who craves ; But I, desiring not, accept the glow And blossom of that Knowledge that is Love. 161
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…ht’s reward ; Dispersion is a thing abhorred. The Bhikkhu who in Earnestness delights, who fears dispersions dire, His fetters all, both great and small, burning he moves about the fire.
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ANIMA LUNAE Written partly under the great rock Sigiri, partly in Arabia, near Aden. ZÔHRA the king by feathered fans Slept lightly through the mid-day heat. Swart giants with drawn yataghans Guard, standing at his head and feet, Zôhra, the mightiest of the khans ! Each slave Circassian like a moon Sits smiling, burning with young bloom Of dawn, and weaves an airy tune Like a white bird’s song bright and bold That dips a fiery plume. So the song lulled, lazily rolled In tubes of silver, lutes of gold ; And all that palace drowsed away The hours…
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…iscernible to all who have passed that way. But there is good wine there ; he must be reckoned with. If he progresses, his will become a great name. If he has arrived at his limits we shall hear no more of him. But from the power and earnestness of the book before us we are inclined to favour his chances in the future. He has shown at least the foot of Hercules.” —Birmingham Gazette. The Mother’s Tragedy, etc. 5s. The two dramas in this volume are of a nature to freeze the blood in the veins of the most sanguine of mankind. Also a short collect…
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…nding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind.
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…s wind throws down the feeble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind , Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind ? * Sodden—the habitual—who lives unrestrained, etc.
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…s Of belly rank with exhalations foetid. Upon this rottenness the sun shone deadly straight As if to cook it to a turn, And give back to great Nature hundredfold the debt That, joining it together, she did earn. The sky beheld this carcase most superb outspread As spreads a flower, itself, whose taint Stank so supremely strong, that on the grass your head You thought to lay, in sudden faint. The flies swarmed numberless on this putrescent belly, Whence issued a battalion Of larvæ, black, that flowed, a sluggish liquid jelly, Along this living c…
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…re fain, Mingling in lonely night and darksome wood The foam of pleasure and the tears of pain. O virgins, demons, monsters, O martyrs ! Great souls contemptuous of reality ! Seekers for the Infinite, satyrs, worshippers, Now mad with cries, now torn with agony ! You whom my soul has followed to your hell, Poor sisters, more beloved than wept by me, For your fierce woes, your lusts insatiable, And the urns of love that fill the hearts of ye !
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…d day, but no deed. Such a sense is up and within me, A tongue as of mystical fire ! Love, beauty, and holiness win me To the end of the great desire, Where I cease from the thirst and the labour, As the land that no ploughman tills Lest the robber his neighbour unloosen the sabre From holds in the hills. From love of my life and its burden Set free in the silence remote, Grows a sorrow divine for my guerdon, A peace in my struggling note. Compassion for earth far extended Beneath me, the swords and the rods, My spirit hath bended, bowed me and…
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…gs of the weather, Marked bright with the silvery ghylls For flickering feather, brings all things together To nest in the hills. Like a great bird poised in the æther, The mountain keeps watch over earth, On the child that lies sleeping beneath her Wild-eyed from a terrible birth. But by noise of the world unshaken, By dance of the world not bedinned, The hill bides forsaken, yet only to waken Her lover, the wind.
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…hat distils A potion of madness from berries of sadness Grown wild in the hills. Though the earth be disparted and rended, Thus only the great peaks change That their image is moulded and bended Into all that a fancy may range ; And the silence my song could refigure To the note of a bird did I will, Of glory or rigour, of passion or vigour— The change were to ill ! For silence is better than singing Though a Shelley wove songs in the sky, And hovering is sweeter than winging ; To live is less good than to die. The secret of secrets is hidden N…
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…irth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye made of Justice and of Truth, The Souls of Fury, and the Lords of Ruth. In His great Name, your God’s, I say, arise ! Behold ! His mercies murmur in the skies. His Name is mighty in us to the end. In Him we cry : Move, answer, and descend ! Apply yourselves to us ; arise ! For why ? We are the Wisdom of Your God most High ! This Fragment is a paraphrase of one of the elemental invocations given in Dr Dee’s famous record of magical working. 72
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…park of man ? Is He not moulded also in His Own Eternal Plan ? Even so ; as the woes of earth is the angry crested sea. Even so ; as Her great peace abideth in the deep—so He ! What wreck floats by us ? What pale corpse rolls horribly above, Tossed on the unbewailing foam, cast out of light and life and love ? The sea shall draw thee down, O brother, to her breast of peace, Her unimaginable springs, her bridal secrecies.