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…Life’s miserable lie. I broke that silence, and afraid I knew not what I prayed . . . . . . Let peace awaken for an hour And manifest as power . . . . . . Cease not the dance unceasing, The glance nor swerve nor cease, Thy peace by power increasing In me by power to peace. Desunt cetera. [The MS. of this Hymn most mysteriously disappeared two days after being written. I can remember no more of it than the above; nor will inspiration return.]
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…mpet blare Cursed back at me ! Thou canst not see His Face ! Equal and Spouse ? Bring forth the Virgin Dower, Eternal Wisdom and Eternal Power ! I woke ! and in a well’s untroubled pool I saw my face—and I was ugly now ! Blood-spattered ebony eyelash and white brow ! Blood on my lips, and hair, and breast ! “ Thou fool ! ” A horrid torture in my heart—and then I licked my lips : the tigress tasted blood. My changèd features—wash them in the flood Of murder ! This is power over men And angels. I will lift the twisted rod, And make my power as th…
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DHAMMAPADA I45 IV FLOWERS O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power ? Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower ? The seeker shall subdue this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power ; The seeker find that Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends aright, Breaking dread Mara’s flower-pointed shaft he goes, Death’s monarch shall not meet his sight. Like one who strayeth gathering flowers, is he who Pleasure lus…
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…uth is shewn ; right aspirations are their sphere ! An ill-thatched house is open to the mercy of the rain and wind. So passion hath the power to break into an unreflecting mind. A well-thatched house is proof against the fury of the rain and wind. So passion hath no power to break into a rightly-ordered mind. * Alternative reading !— Who is not free from dirty taint, and temperate and truthful ain’t, He should not wear the garment quaint that marks the Arahat of Saint.
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ASSUMPTA CANIDIA 97 “ I wield Thy Power.” With my magic rod Again I strode before the Throne of God. “ Forgone my Virgin Splendour ! I aspire No longer as a maiden to thy Love. We twain are set in majesty above : My cloud is mighty as thy mystic Fire.” Vanished the mist, the light, the sense, the throne ! Vanished the written horror of the curse ; Vanished the stars, the sun, the Universe. I was in Heaven, lost, alone. Alone ! A new curse gathered as a sombre breath : “ Power without Wisdom is the Name of Death ! ” And therefore from my devasta…
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…ands. Six are the mighty seats of living breath, The rest sharp sickles, or the horns of death, Which are, and are not, save in mine own power. Sleep they ? They rise at mine appointed hour. I made ye stewards in the primal day, And set your thrones in my celestial way. I gave ye power above the moving time That all your vessels to my crown might climb. From all the corners of your fortress caves Ye might invoke me, and your wise conclaves Should pour the fires of increase, life and birth, Continual dewfall to the thirsty earth. Thus are ye mad…
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…hat Wisdom ; miserably dumb ; Waiting for the Impossible to come, Whether in mercy or damnation dire— I who have been all Beauty and all Power !— This is thine hour, Apollyon, thine Hour ! I, who have twice beheld the awful throne ; And, as it were the vision of a glass, Beheld the Mist be born thereon, and pass ; I, who have stood upon the four-square stone ! I, who have twice been One—! Woe, woe is me ! Lost, lost, upon the lifeless, deathless plane, The desert desolate, the air inane ; Fallen, O fallen to eternity ! I, who have looked upon t…
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…-clothed memory, some secret redolence of gloom, Some darkling murmurous song of lust quite strange to man and beast and bird, Silent in power, not overheard by any snake that eats the dust. No crimson-hooded viper knows ; no silver-crested asp has guessed The strange soft secrets of my breast ; no leprous cobra shall disclose The many-seated, multiform, divine, essential joys that these Dank odours bring, that starry seas wash white in vain ; intense and warm The scents fulfil ; they permeate all lips, all arteries, and fire New murmured music…
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…us flower Will bloom sweet scented, delicate and excellent to think upon. So ’mid the slothful worthless ones, the Walkers in Delusion’s power, In glory of Wisdom, light of Buddha forth hath the True Disciple shone. Desunt cetera. [The reader will kindly note such important changes of metre as occur in the two last verses of Chapter I. and elsewhere. The careless might suppose that these do not scan ; they do, following directly or by analogy a similar change in the Pali.—R. P. L.]
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…n, I will not shake thy hand ; You bear a traitor’s brand, old man, You bear a liar’s brand. Thy talents are profound and wide, Apparent power to win ; It is not everyone has lied A nation into sin. And look thou not so black, my friend, Nor seam that hoary brow ; Thy deeds are seamier, my friend, Thy record blacker now. 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 f…
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…nventor’s spark, Confessor of hanged men and plotters dark ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Adopted sire of whom black wrath and power Of God the Father chased from Eden Bower ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! FEMMES DAMNÉES. Like pensive cattle couched upon the sand They turn their eyes to ocean’s distant ring ; Feet seek each other, hand desires hand, With langour sweet and bitter shuddering.
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…orget. I would have pitied him. This flower spits blood upon him ; so must I Cast ashes through the misty sky to mock his faded crown of power, And with our laughter’s nails refix his torn flesh faster to the wood, And with more cruel zest make good the shackles of the Crucifix. So be it ! In thy arms I rest, lulled into silence by the strain Of sweet love-whispers, while I drain damnation from thy tawny breast :
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…ute 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, about, beneath. O blend your voices, angels of the awf…
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… ; And thy desires, if aught thou wilt, are softer at my suffering. Fill up with Death Life’s loving-cup ! Give me the knowledge, me the power For some new sin one little hour, provoking Hell to belch us up.
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…Ri Lungma, Baltistan. SO now the Earl was well a-weary of The grievous folly of this wandering. Had he been able to have counted Love Or Power, or Knowledge as the sole strong thing Fit to suffice his quest, his eyes had gleamed With the success already grasped. The sting Of all he suffered, was that he esteemed His quest partook of all and yet of none. So as he rode the woodlands out there beamed The dull large spectre of a grim flat sun, Red and obscure upon the leaden haze That lapped and wrapped and rode the horizon. The Earl rode steadily …
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…y dead. Then, O my beauty ! tell the worms, who will devour With kisses all of you to dust ; That I have kept the form and the essential power Divine of my distorted lust.
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…rd and Act and Aspiration Folded mystically across each other, Crowns that palace of enduring marble With sky-piercing pinnacles of Will-power Rightly carven, rightly pointed ; strengthens [Mind sole centred on the single object] All against the lightning, earthquake, thunder,
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…erlin’s nonsense lore ! Ho there ! Travellers ! Mine host ! Open the door ! ” [In the second part—a joyous inn fireside—the Earl refuses power, knowledge, and love (offered him by a guest) by the symbolic drink of ale and the cherry cheeks of the maid. In part three she, coming secretly to him, warns him he must destroy the three vices, faith, hope, and charity. This he does easily, save the love of the figure of the Crucified ; but at last conquering this, he attains. These were never written.—R. P. L.]
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…ere the rescuers Might find the darkness, and proclaim the light ; For I invoke thee by the sacred rites And secret words of everlasting power : By the swift symbol of the Golden Dawn And all its promise, by the Cross of Fire, And by the Gleaming Symbol : by the Rose And Cross of Light and Life : the holy Ankh, The Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold. By these I say, Come forth ! My holy Spouse,
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…ht ; Grey desires invade the white, Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me ! and woe is man ! ’ “ In conclusion, as far as descriptive power and beauty of thought are concerned, we consider that the author of ‘ The Tale of Archais ’ holds the first place among the latter-day poets.”— Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 3s. 6d. A collection of delicate lyrics, illustrative of the vague yet holy aspirations of adolescence. “ We shall be sorry if any one who cares much for verse in itself, who is curious of new tendencies in contemporary po…