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262 TANNHAUSER And he--his heart was great enough for all, The fall of sparrows as the crash of stars. The tears of lonely forests, and the pain Of the least atom—all were in his heart. Was that indeed the truth? that he should come At last a Christ upon the waiting world, Redeem it to more purpose than the last ! So fills his sorrow, and Her sympathy, My common soul, that I am fain to fall Upon my face, and cry aloud to God: ‘©OQ Thou, Sole Wise, Sole Pure, Sole Merciful, Who hast thus shown Thy mystery to nan : Grant that his coming may be ve…
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… I lapped in the glory of the Sun of Life and Light :— Even so my heart looks out from the harbour of God’s breast, Out from the shining stars where it entered into rest— Once more it seeks in memory for reverence, not regret, ; And it loves you still, my sisters! as God shall not forget. It is ill to blaspheme the silence with a wicked whispered thought— How still they were, those nights ! when this web of things was wrought ! How still, how terrible! O my dolorous tender brides, As I lay and dreamt in the dark by your shameful beautiful sides…
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…ise of time, Dim winds of ocean and sublime Pyramids of forgotten foam Whirling, vague cones of shapeless sleep And infinite dreams, and stars that roam, And comets moving through the deep Unfathomable skies, Darker for moonlight, and the glow-worm eyes Of dusky women that were stars, And paler curves of the immutable bars That line the universe with light, Great eagle-flights of mystic moons That dip, while the dull midnight swoons About the skirts of Night : These bowed and shaped themselves and said : “* Tt shall be thus !” And the intolerab…
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…TERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC THE DREAMING. DEATH! My beauty in thy deep pure love Anchors its homage far above All lights of heaven. The stars awake ; The very stars bend down to take From its fresh fragrance for the sake Of their own cloud-compelling peace. On earth there lies a silver fleece Of new-fallen snow, secure from sun, In alleys, leafy every one This year already with the spring, The breeze blows freshly, thrushes sing, And all the woods are burgeoning With quick new buds ; across the snow The scent of violets to and fro Wafts at the…
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…ea With song more noble, the divinest potion Of poet’s wonder and bard’s melody. Delight, thou Moon, to ARCHAIS, Cold is the kiss of the stars to the sea, The kiss of the earth to the orient grey That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and resurgent and splendid. CIARICLES, Night her bright bow-string has bended ; last flies her arrow unsparing Through the beech-leaves, “lsther it cleaves Rapid and daring. Ah! how it strikes as with silver! how the sun’s laughter is ended ! ARCHAIS. Llow the m…
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26 THE TALE OF ARCHIAIS CHARICLES, Not a flower of them shall die, Every one shall blossom newly ; Stars shall lend them of their beauty, Rain and sunshine know their duty. ARCHAIS. Not a flower of them shall die That compose our canopy 5 Beech and chestnut, poplar tall, Birch and elm shall flourish all Dewed with ever-living spring. Song and dance shall close the day, CHORUS, Close this happy, happy day. . CHARICLES. Of your revels I'll -be king, ARCHAIS. I the queen of your array. Both. Foot it nimbly in the ring ! CHORUS. Stay, stars, and da…
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…t Oflamps affords the hint That leads me—where it may. POWER. THE mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command ; The stars that shudder when their king ! Extends his hand, His awful hand to bless, to curse; or moves Toward the dimmest-den In the thick leaves, not known of loves Or nymphs or men ; (Only the sylph’s frail gossamer may wave Their quiet frondage yet, Only her dewy tears may lave The violet ;) The mighty answer of the shaken sky To his supreme behest ; the call Of ibex that behold on high Night’s funeral, And see…
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… Ere once again the storm Lofty and multiform Close the bright glimpse of summer and the hope of everything, Silence her throne assumes, Stars mount the sky, and looms The misty monarch of the dale on high : About the silver fect I worship, as is meet, The warrior God that fixed sky, Rent the cavernous earth, Moulded in awful birth The terror of the cloudy canopy, And tore from underground The lake’s immense profound, And clad the mountains now with this faint snow embroidery. the curved Now the white flakes decrease. Wastwater lies in peace, K…
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…he mountains were aware that stood around. Thine was the passionless divine High hope, and the pure purpose thine, Higher and purer than stars shine, And thine the unexpressed delight To hold high commune with the wind That sings, in midnight black and blind, Strange chants, the murmurs of the mind, To grasp the hands of heaven and find the lords of light. 1 The supreme Deity is shadowed by Qaba- lists in this glyph. See Appendix, ‘* Qabalistic | dogma,”’ for a synthesized explanation of this ! entire philosophy. | 2 Commonty known as the Matte…
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…re-echoes to the poet prayer : ‘‘T am their child to whom thy soul is clinging, Iam Despair !” THE SANCTUARY. I see, beyond all seas and stars, The gates of hell, the paths of death Open: unclasp the surly bars Before the voice of him that saith: “*T will!” Droop lower to my knees ! Sink gently to the leopard’s skin !1 I must not stoop and take my ease, Or touch the body lithe and thin. Bright body of the myriad smiles, Sweet serpent of the lower life, The smooth silk touch of thee defiles, The lures and languors of a wife. Slip to the floor, I…
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… mystical charm of the gloaming, Yvonne! On the buds that blush bright as we meet In the mystical charm of the gloaming ! A tear for the stars of the night, And a smile for the avenue shady, A kiss for the eyelashes bright, And a blush tor the cheek of my lady, Yvonne ! A daugh for the moon and her spite, Anda blush for the cheek of my lady ! We'll tread where the daffodils shake And the primrose smiles up through her weeping, Where the daisies dip down to the lake, Where the wonderful thrushes are sleeping, ¥vonne ! By the marge of the maze of…
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…The minor sestet, where some passion bleeds Or truth discourses: or eclipse may end, Proof against thought ; but if man com- prehend The stars in all their stations sing together. measured in the sonnet’s Il. What power or fascination can there lie In this fair garden of the straight-kept rows, sonnet ? knows Why, having written in mere ecstasy One sonnet-thought, the metre cannot dic But urges, but compels me to compose More and still more,! and still my spirit The Surely some archange] FCS Striving up glittering steeps of symphony. 1 This is …
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…in the doubtful twilight things, Stretches bare of Mower, but touched with Rolls majestic torrents of mighty music whispers, Through the stars where dwell the avenging Grey with huddled rocks, and a space of spirits | woodland, Bound in the whirlwind... . Pine-tree and poplar. So the cliffs their Song... For the mist) Now a stream to ford and a sule to clam- regathers, her} Girds them bride-like, fit for the sun to kiss Last the inn, a beok, and a quiet cor- them ; ner... Darkness falls like dewfall about the hill Fresh as Spring, there kisses …
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… the Word of Double Power. Oh God, Thy blinding beauty, and the light Shed from Thy shoulders, and the golden night Of mingling fire and stars and roses swart In the long flame of hair that leaps athwart, Live in each tingling gossamer! Dread eyes! Each flings its arrow of sharp sacrifice, Eating me up with poison! I am hurled Far through the vaporous confines of the world With agony of sundering sense, beholding Thy mighty flower, blood-coloured death, unfolding ! Lithe limbs and supple shoulders and lips curled, Curled out to draw me to their…
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…, dark As dawn before the lark Flings his sharp song to skyward, and is fain To light his lampless eyes At the flower-folded skies Where stars are hidden in the blue, to fill llis beak with star-dropt dew, Llis little heart anew With love and song to swell it to his will ; Holy as heaven, the place Before the golden face Of God is very silent at the dawn. The even keel is keen To flash the waves between, But no soft moving current is withdrawn : We float upon the blue Like sunlight specks in dew, And like the moonlight on the lake we lie: The n…
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…unded, as God to abide. Though death be the stain on our roses, The roses of heaven are white ; Though day on the world of us closes The stars only dream of the night As of music that roars and reposes and dies in delight. Dead stars in the season of sighing, Lost worlds of unspeakable pain, White winds in the winter-tide dying, Or pestilence risen from rain ; So thoughts are that perish for lying and rise not again. Blue waves in the summer uncrested, New homes for the fair and the free, Bright breezes in forest-leaves nested, Sweet birds in t…
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… sweet birds blossom, and in chorus quire The rapt beginnings of immense desire. Here is the light and rapture of the will: We touch the stars—and they are tiny still ! O mighty thews! O godlike face and hair! Rise up and take me; ay, and keep me there, One tingle at thy touch from head to feet; Lips that cling close, and never seem to meet, Melting as sunlight melts in wine! Arise! Shame! Has thy learning left thee over- wise ? Thy lips sing fondly—to another tune. Nay! *twas my breathing beauty made thee swoon, Dread forkéd fire across the cl…
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IN THE HOUR BEFORE REVOLT 219 A helinet flames forth on his forehead, Gold sparks from the forge of the stars, His shield with the Gorgon made horrid Hath blood on its bull-battled bars— Thou God of me, Mars ! He strides through the vibrating aether ; Spurns earth from His warrior feet ; Shakes fire from the forges beneath her ; His glances are fervid and fleet. With a cry that makes 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! Th…
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…, blue stream, at His com- mand Who reared the mountains from the shaken earth ; Who holds the lightning in His holy hand, And binds the stars in adamantine band, And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, deso- late, and blind. The dusty desert glimmers in the night ; A solitary palm-tree shades the well ; I am alone, a weary eremite Striving the secrets of the stars to tell, And every blade of grass that makes the dell Is cou…
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128 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Tune my lesser lyre with other fingers, Yet am not a whit the less belovéd. Unto me the stars are never silent, Nor do sea and storm-deny their music, Nor do flower and breeze refuse their kisses : So my soul.is flooded with their magic; So my love completes the joy of living. . I am like the earth, to whom there gather Rays of gold to bid the gray horizon Melt, recede, and brighten into azure. Let me sing, O holy one, Apollo! Sing as Horace sang, and flood the ocean With a living ecstasy of music Till the wh…