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…s tremble the thunder, Light-speared, with a sword that is flame, He bursts the vast spaces asunder. His angels arise and proclaim : The Lord is His Name! O Lord! Thou didst march out of Edom! Thou leapedst from the Mountains of Seir! The breath of hy voice was as Freedom ! The nations did tremble with fear. The heathen, their fury forsook them ; The Moabites trembled and fled. O Lord, when Thy countenance shook them, Thy voice in the House of the Dead. O Lord! Thou hast said ! The lightnings were kindled and lightened, Thy thunder was heard on…
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24 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS TIYMN. O Lord our God ! O woodland king! O thou most dreadful God! Who chasest thieves and smitest with thy rod, That fearful rod, too sharp, too strong For thy weak worshippers to bear! Hear thou their murmured song Who cry for pardon ; pity, and prepare For pain’s delight thy votaries who kiss thy rod, O high Lord God! O Lord our God ! God of green gardens! O imperious god ! Who as a father smitest with thy rod Thine erring children who aspire In vain to the high mysteries Of thy most secret fire. Beat us and burn with …
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… In the ways of the North and the South Whence the dark and the dayspring are drawn, . We pass with the song of the mouth Of the notable Lord of the Dawn. Unto Ra, the desire of the East, let the clamour of singing proclaim The fire of his name ! In the ways of the East and the West Whence the night and the day are dis- crowned, We pass with the beat of his breast, And the breath of his crying is bound. Unto Toum, the low Lord of the West, let the noise of our chant be the breath Proclaiming him Death ! And the violent song of the seas. Unto Mo…
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TANNHAUSER 249 Great lord, true knight, and honest gentle- man, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace, In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet’s tourney. HERALD. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. LANDGRAVE. Ha! He is not here! WOLFRAM. Our sturdy lover will not be consoled For losing, as he phrases it, his friend. LANDGRAVE. Well, we forgive him the more readily Because of the occasion. One al…
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…ws of my hopes devoured, The crowns of my intent cast down, The hate that shone, the love that lowered, Make up God’s universal frown. O Lord, O Hormakhou,! display The rosy earnest of the day ! The mighty pomp of desolate Dead kings, a pageant, moves along ; Dead queens unite in desperate, Unsatisfied, unholy song. O Khephra,? manifest in flesh, Arise, create the world afresh ! The silence of my heart is one With memory’s insatiate night ; I hardly dare to hope the sun. I seek the darkness, not the light. O Lord Harpocrates,? be still The move…
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…ard the hollows weird and white, Toward the sorrow of the snow 3 To desolation black and blind They move, and leave us death behind. The Lord is great: the Lord is wise Within His temple to foresee With calm impenetrable cyes The after glory that shall be ; But we, of mortal bodies born, Laugh lies consoling unto scorn. The God of Israel is strong; His mighty arm hath wrought this day A victory and a triumph-song— And now He breathes upon His clay, And we, who were as idols crowned, Lie dust upon the empty ground. She goes, our sorrow’s sacrifi…
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) 220 CARMEN SAECULARE In the hour of Revolt that burns nigher Each hour as it leaps to the sky, We look to Thee, Lord, for Thy Fire ; We look—shall Thy Justice deny? Well, can we not die? But Thou, Thou shalt fall from the heaven As hail on the furious host. I see them : their legions are driven ; Their cohorts are broken and lost. Thy fire hath dispersed them and shattered ! They hesitate, waver, and flee! The tyrant is shaken and scattered, And Ireland is clear to the Sea! Green Erin is free! Hail! Hail to Thee, Lord of us, Horus!! All hail …
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… of the light All air with cloudy fragrance fills ; And, born of desolation blind, The young sweet summer burns behind. The Altar of the Lord is set With salt and fire and fervid wine, And toward the east the light is let For shadow for the holiest shrine : One moment hangs the fire of dawn Until the sacrament be sworn. Behold, the priest, our captain, takes The sacred robes, the crown of gold, The light of other sunlight = breaks Upon his forehead calm and cold ; And other dawns more deep and wise Burn awful in his holy eyes. A moment, and the…
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…ers the CoM pany. Hail, friends ! Good cousin Landgrave, merry be the meet! LANDGRAVE. Hands off me, fellow! Who are you? TANNHAUSER. My lord, Your cousin. Is my face so changed with care, My body shrunken with my suffering (That was not ever of the body) so? WOLFRAM. I know you, my old friend! Our chiefest bird ! Sweetest of singers ! TANNHAUSER. No, the naughty one! HEINRICH. Tannhauser! Yes! you dead. And we have thought LANDGRAVE. Friends, will you swear to him? HEINRICH. Yes, yes, ‘tis he! WOLFRAM. I know the blithe look in the sober eyes …
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…pen to the knowledge of iA dawn of new thought that may lead Votce. To God. Ph, Wope hardly dared to name it! Enter Messenger. Afess. My lord, the king’s command ! Ph. I heed it not. See thou disturb not my high meditation. Away! Voice. With meditations centred in thyself. Mess. Who spoke? Lh. Speak thou. I obey the king. Tess. My lord, Ile lids thee to his court, to hold the reins Tight on the fretful horses of the state Whose weary burden makes them slip—-nay, fall On the stern hill of war. Thou art appointed, 1 This voice is again heard, usi…
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…d about Edom and Moab, pitched their weary tent Beyond the bank of Ammon ; and they sent Messengers thence to Sihon, Heshbon’s king, The lord of Amorites, and said to him: [ prithee, let us pass to our own place Through thy dominions: but his crafty mind, Fearing some treachery, that was not. save In his ill mind that thought it, did determine To gather all his people, and to pitch Tents hostile in the plains before Jahaz. And there he fought with Israel; but God Delivered Sihon to our hands, and all That followed him: whom therefore we destroy…
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… There steals through my coldness a fire, Between my slow words is a sword, One lit by the heart of desire, One sharp in the hand of the Lord; To these that sink, sleep, and expire, your welcome accord, With wrath or repose for its raiment Your power, like a pyramid, stands; My love, with no claim, as a claimant Came seeking out truthin the sands, Found truth, and must placein poor payment this bookin your hands.
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… laughter, Agatn stlence, S’AFIL. I am done with godhead: let me be a man. CHORUS, Hail, S’afi, king of Egypt and the Nile! Hail, S’afi, Lord of the two lands,? all hail! S’AFI. King of himself and lord of life and death, No lesser throne! [have borne meas a god, Avenging on my nearest blood the sin That brought me shameful to the shameless light. I have not faltered nor turned back at all, Nor moved my purpose for a moment’s thought. Nor will Tnow. The god is gone from me, And as a man I feel the living shame Of my existence, and the biting br…
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…; Where the ivory dome above ADULAH. Glimmers like the dawn of love My father, if thou hast openéd thy mouth On the weary way ; Unto the Lord, fulfil the oath to me, Where the ibex chant and call Because the Lord hath taken vengeance Over tempest’s funeral ; for thee Where the hornéd beast is shrill, Of all thine enemies, the Ammonites. And the eagle hath his will, Let this be done for me, that I may go And the shadows fall Two months upon the mountains, and Lewail, | Sharp and black, till day is passed I and my fellows, my virginity ! Over to …
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…ollow Jephthah to the death. All hail ! JEPHTHAH. Go then, refresh yourselves. Sleep well to-night ! [ will send messages to their dread lord [Leder a Herald [emanding his fell purpose, threatening My present aid to you with men of valour Chosen of all your tribes, and charging him As he loves life, and victory, to content. [lis army with their present, brief success, Lest he pass by the barrier of our suffer- ing, And find our wrath no broken sword, and find Despair more terrible than hope. Go now! A SOLDIER. We go, my lord, less readily to sl…
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…awn.” We may suppose from this that Crowley was about this time received into the former fraternity. O miserable ! that it should be so! Lord Jesus, Sufferer for the sins of man, Thou didst invite me to Thy shame and loss. And Iam happy! Pity me! Bestow The right to work in the eternal Plan, The right to hang on the eternal Cross! THE LORD’S DAY. THE foolish bells with their discordant clang Summon the harlot-ridden Hell to pray : The vicar’s snout is tuned, the curates bray Long gabbled lessons, and their noisy twang Kills the foul worshippers…
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…l of peace, Bidding thine anger tease, Speaking sweet words most comfortable. O lose The bitter memory of the wrong long dead ! © be the lord and prince we gladly choose And crown the mercy of thy royal head ! Be thou the chief, and rule upon thy kin, And be not wroth for sin. lor surely in the dusty days and years There is a little river flowing still That brings forgetfulness of woes and fears And drinks up all the memory of ill. Wherefore our tribute to thy feet we bring ; Conguer our foes, and reign our king! JEPHTHAH. Ye have no king but G…
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…phthah ! judge of Israel !”—HAMLET, CHARACTERS. JEPHTHAH. ADULAH, his Daughter. JARED, A Gileadite, cousin to Jephthah. A Prophet of the Lord. ELEAZAR, Chief of the Elders of Israel. AHINOAM, an aged Priest. First Messenger. Second Messenger. First Herald. second Herald. soldiers of Jephthah. Soldiers of Israel. Chorus of Elders of Israel. Maidens of Israel. SCENE :—An Open Place before Mizpeh. the midst an Altar. TIME :— The duration of the play is from noon of the first day to dawn of the third. Ln. JEPHTHAH. Lleazar. Prophet. Chores. CHORUS.…
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…ription of the robes and crown of the Magus in the ‘‘ Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.” And loving servant of my lady and lord, In that abandoned Vault, of late destroyed By Etna’s fury. Nothing else remained (Save in the ante-room the sword we knew So often flashing at the column-head) Within. I think my lord has written this. Now for the child, whose rearing is my care, And in whose life is left my single hope, This writing shall conclude the book of song [lis father made in worship and true love Of his fair lady, and these son…
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…pringtide burgeoned, and the rosy day Leapt from beneath the splendours of the snow :— Christ, ultimate master of man’s hateful foe, And lord of his own soul and fate, strikes still From man’s own heaven, against the lord of ill; | Stage thunders mock the once terrific nod That spoke the fury of the Christian God, Whose slaves deny, too cowardly to abjure, Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead is powerless, even on the slave, Who once could scar the forehead of the brave, Break love’s heart pitiful, and reach the strong Through stricken c…