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… JEPHTHAH. Thou didst no evil in the slaying him, For God is a consuming fire ; high zeal Against idolatry lacks not reward. And now the sun is up: for Israel, march! JARED. Good luck be with your spears; and home- coming Gladden victorious eyes ere set of sun. [Axeunt JEPHTHAH azd Soldiers. Enter ELEAZAR, AHINOAM, Chorus of Elders. CHORUS. The sun is past meridian. No sound Of trampling hoofs assails the unquiet wind, Nor trembles in the pillared echo-places, And windy corridors of pathless snow. But let us wait, expecting victory. No fugitive…
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JEPHTHAH To a rent uncouth attire Changed with cares ; Happy songs our love had made Ere the sun had sunk his fire, In the moonrise fall and fade, And the dregs of our desire Fall away to death ; Tears divide our labouring breath That our sister—O our sister ! Speak, Jephthah, speak! What ill has| Moon and sun and stars have kissed her ! fallen? Speak ! She must touch the lips of death, [Stlence. After a littl the Chorus of | Touch the lips whose coldness saith : Maidens understand, and break into) Thou art clay. wating, The old men gradually \…
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…to the silence louder than all sound, Into the vast implacable inane ! Come, let us journey thither once again ! THE CHANT TO BE SAID OR SUNG UNTO OUR LADY ISIS. ROLL through the caverns of matter, the world’s irremovable bounds ! Roll, ye wild billows of ether ! the Sistron ? is shaken and sounds ! Wild and sonorous the clamour, vast in the region of death, Live with the fire of the Spirit, the essence and flame of the breath! Sound, O sound ! ' An allusion to the sign called ‘‘ Enterer of the Threshold,” in which the Egyptian Gods often stand…
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The PRIEST SPEAKS 37 Nov sun is mirrored in its treacherous water, Only the fulse moon flickers and its by Like to the bloodless phantom shape of slaughter Laughing a lipless laugh - a mockery, A ghastly memory to wake and weep —-Shouid Sorrow let me sleep. No current draws a man, to his fair seem- ing, Yetall the while he whirlsa stealthy sweep Narrower, nearer, where the wave is steam- ing With the slight spray tossed from that funnel deep Which dips, one wide black shaft, most horrible, Down to the nether ITell. Yet there seems time. God’s g…
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…fest 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 moveless centre of my will ! My sorrows are more manifold Than His that bore the sins of man. My sins are like the starry fold, My hopes their desolation wan. O Nuit,’ the starry one, arise, And set thy starlight in my skies ! In darkness, in the void abyss, I grope with vain despairing arms. The silence as a serpent is, The rustle of t…
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…breath ! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,! The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep |— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. TANNHAUSER. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remember, The load of sunny sheaves. In gardens deeply scented, In orchards heavily hung, Love flung Away the days demented With lips that curled and clung. Ah! …
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…earing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep: Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the respite of a little sleep; Sleep, just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching …
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…CULARE * 1900 “PROLOGUE. Who calls m2 coward? Let them wait awhile! Shall I THE EXILE. i Bow down a loyal head to fate: despair and “The Sun, surmounted by a red rose, shining ; die: on a mossy bank."! I hear the sea roll strong and pure that bore me far OVER the western water lies a solar fire, ; ‘From Méalfourvinie’s! scalp, gray moor and Kapt lives and drunken ecstasies of sad lonely scaur ; desire ) I hear the waves together mutter in counsel Poppies and lonely flag-flowers haunt the deep : desolate I hear the thunder the winds utter in bro…
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THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 177 THE MAY QUEEN. (OLD STYLE.) IT is summer and sun on the sea, The twilight is drawn to the world : We linger and laugh on the lea, The light of my spirit with me, Sharp limbs in close agony curled. The noise of the music of sleep, The breath of the wings of the night, The song of the magical deep, The sighs of the spirits that weep, Make murmur to tune our delight. Slow feet are our measures that move 3 Swift songs are more soft than the breeze ; Our mouths are made mute for our love ; Our eyes are made soft as the d…
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…ook up to the riven moun- tain Split by the thunder. Rent and rifted, shattered of wind and lightning, Smilten, scarred, and stricken of sun and tempest, Seamed with wounds, like adamant, shod with iron, Torn by the earthquake. Still through all the stresses of doubtful weather IIfold the firm old pinnacles, sky-defying ; Still the icy feet of the wind relentless Walk in their meadows. Fields that flower not, blossom in no new spring-tide ; Fields where grass nor herb nor abounding darnel Flourish ; fields more barren, devoid, than ocean’s Past…
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… present help is EVBAZAR. But evils fall like rain upon the land. CHORUS. Let us not call the hail to give us peace. ELEAZAR, Nor on the sun, lest he too eat us up. CHORUS. The heart of a man as the sea Beats hither and thither to find Fase for the limbs long free, Light for the stormy mind, A way for the soul to flee, A charm for the lips to bind ; And the struggle is keen as the strife to be, And the heart is tossed by the thankless wind. ELEAZAR, Nay, for a man’s sure purpose is of Gad. CHORUS. The large pale limbs of the earth are tanned Wi…
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…u goodliest Of queens, thou royal woman, crowned with tears, That could not move the dull stars from their spheres To kiss thee. For the sun would fainer rest In the gold chambers of the glowing west Than answer thy love, thine, whose soul endears All souls but his, whose slow desire fears The fierce embraces of thine olive breast. O Queen, sun-lover, we are wed with thee In changeless love, in passion for a fire Whose lips bind all men in their bitter spell; A love whose first caress, hard won, would be The final dissolution of desire, A flame…
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THE RAPE OF DEATIL (So strong against the sun) to where they ply Those pallid wings, or turn our vessel’s beak With utmost fury to the North, to dye Our prows with seaweed, such as wise men seek For cleansirz of their altars with slow blood Wrenched trom the long dark leaves, with fingers weak With age and toil ; to stem the restless flood That boils between the islands ; to attain The ultimate ice, where some calm hero stood And looked one last time for a sail in vain, And looking upward not in vain, lay down And died, to pass where cold and a…
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… glad confidence would quire A new song exquisite, whose tender tune Was nurtured at the bosom of the moon And kissed on either cheek by sun and rain. She trembled and began. fain To keep pure silence while her notes resound Over the forest and the marshy ground. The troop was ARCHAIS. Green and gold the meadows lie In the sunset’s eye. Green and silver the woods glow When the sun is low, And the moon sails up like music ona sea of breathing snow. Chain and curse are passed away ;_ Love proclaims the day. Dawned his sunrise o’er the sea, Changi…
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…oomless gardens throng, And Life, a moon, wanes fast ; But to thy garden richer buds belong And hardier flowers, and Love, a death- less sun, Flames eager to the last, And young desires in fleeter revels run, And Life revives, and all the flowers rejoice, Bird and light butterfly have made their choice, Creation hymns its God with an united voice. There is a storm without. The hoary trees Stagger; the foam is angry on the sea: I know the secret mountains are at ease, And in the deepest ice-embroidery Where great men’s spirits linger there is pe…
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…of the mountain, and my soul is with the dead ; Yet am I not unaware of the splendour of the height, Yet am 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, …
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THE FAREWELL OF PARACELSUS TO APRILE 41 But oh! this desert is a weary land ! Poisons alone their prickly heads lift high ; The sun, a vlobe of fury, still doth stand In the dark basin of the burning sky. There is no water, no, nor herb, and I laint at his anger who compels the herd To fall upon the waste, so fierce and dry That none may pass it, not the very bird. Throughout the vast expanse no single sound is heard. Only the moaning of the dying ox, And my parched cry for water from cracked lips ; In vain the stern impenctrable rocks Mock my …
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…om still abide His virginal white bride. So, in the dawn of skies unseen above, Your passion’s fiercest flakes shall catch new gold, The sun of an inmeasurable love More beautiful shall touch the chaos cold Of earth that is grown old. Then, shameful sisterhood of earth’s disdain, Your lips shall speak your hearts, and understand ; Your lovers shall assuage the amorous pain With spiritual lips more keen and bland, And ye shall take God’s hand. THE NAMELESS QUEST.! Tue king was silent. In the blazoned hall Shadows, more mute than at a funeral Tru…
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…t Its savour faded, nor my soul aware. I turned and went away, away, away, Out of the night that was to me the day, And rode to meet the sun to hide in light The sorrow of the day that was the night. So I rode slowly in the morning gray, And all the meadows with the frost were white. And lo! between the mountains there uprose The winter sun; and all the forest glows, And the frost burns hke fire before my eyes, While the white breeze awoke with slum- berous sighs And stirred the branches of the pine; it knows, t surely knows how weary are the w…
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… see the assembly of the foully slain : The scent of murder steams: riderless horses , Gallop across the earth, and seek the inane : The sun and moon are shaken in their courses : The kings are gathered, and the vultures fall Screaming, to hold their ghastly festival. Master, the sons of Freedom are but few— Yea, but as strong as the storm-smitten sea, Their forehead consecrated with the dew, Their heart made mighty: let my voice decree, My spirit lift their standard : clear and true Bid my trump sound, ‘‘ Let all the earth be free!” With thine…