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…t us leap upon Like tigers on their prey! MAENADS. Crush, crush the world I AGAVE, Tread earth as ’twere a winepressl AUTONOE. Drink its blood, The sweet red wine! M/ENADS. Ay, drink the old earth dry! AGAVE. Squeeze the last drops out till the frame collapse Like an old wineskin! AUTONOE. So the sooner sup Among the stars ! AGAVE. The swift, swift stars! MlENADS. 0 night! Night, night, fall deep and sure! AUTONOE. Fall soft and sweet! AGAVE. Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MAENADS. All wild th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 112
THE EQUINOX knights and join the Saracen army? That were only to change the balance, to change the cross, soaked in the blood of humanity, for the crescent, pale flame of madness. Oh could I destroy both! . . . Forty years ago I strove to reconcile them by love, by sympathy. What came of it? A frolic crime, sterile as all my thoughts are. Nothing, nothing has ever come of anything that I have ever done. Yet that came nearest to success; for it was my one touch of love. I have never loved since, as most surely I had never loved before. She is dea…
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…IDA PENDRAGON ”He is like a black leopard,” she purred. “Is anything in the world so beautiful as that lithe black body ? ” ”I have seen blood in the sunlight on a bull's shoulder," replied Rolles. “ I love to see the pure animal beat the mere brute. White men ought not to fight: they ought to think, and do lovely physical things, things gracious and of good report." “Ida! my Ida! Could you see your nostrils twitching! I can imagine you fighting with all their fierceness, incapable of keeping to the rules of boxing.” “ Ι hate you,” she said. “ In …
1911 · PDF PAGE 111
… the Representative of the King efferum/em], the Court begs of you, that you will deal mercifully with the prisoner, without shedding of blood. REPRESENTATIVE OF K. OF ]. A stake shall be prepared. [T0 the soldiers] Remove the prisoner to the strongest dungeon, and let the guard be trebled. Witchcraft has many tricks. BISHOP. The Court is dissolved. My lords, will you please breakfast with me? [JUDGES murmur assent. RINALDO. Thank you, my lord, but I have my bellyful. [The other: exchange glances andgo out. RINALDO is left alone. He goes to the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 190
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS As in the blood of murdered things The afirighted augur shaking skries Earthquakeand ruinous fate of kings, Famine and desperate destinies, So in the eyes of Pharaoh shone The hate and loathing that compel In death each damned minion Of Set, the accursed lord of Hell. Yea! in those globes of fire there sate Some cruel knowledge closely curled Like serpents in those halls of hate, Palaces of the Underworld. But in the hell-glow of those eyes The ashen skull of Pharaoh shone White as the moonrays that surprise The invoking Drus…
1911 · PDF PAGE 294
…her’s camp to the cave. I bared the beautiful blade ; I dipped her thrice i’ the wave ; I slit her throat as a lamb’s, That the {aunt of blood leapt high With my clamorous dithyrambs, Like a stain on the shield of the sky. With blood and censer and song I rent the mysterious veil; My eyes gaze long and long On the deep of that blissful bale. My cold grey kissesawake From the silence of utmost eld The grey cold slime of the snake That her beautiful body held.
1911 · PDF PAGE 93
…of Syria. He lived alone forty years in the mountain. FATMA. He is relentless in anger, and obeys not. One would say there was Christian blood in him. LAYLAH. On the night of his begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Omar‘s tribe are white men, thou wizened old black witch. FATMA. Ah! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Happy the prince whose wife is as faithful as thou. Thou canst not open thy mouth without uttering his name. LAYLAH. Do not take it in thine, mother o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
… hygiene of Father Kneipp, and his failures are those who retain decorum and melancholy, who follow the letter and not the spirit, cold- blooded treaders upon earth instead of passionate lovers of its strength. It is no accident of mythology that the Titans made war upon the Gods, and in Prometheus overthrew them. It was when Canute failed to drive back the sea that his dynasty was lost to that Norman William who caught hold of Mother Earth with both hands. When I was a child I fell; and the scars of the earth are on my forehead at this hour. W…
1911 · PDF PAGE 92
…om the battle plain-— If those we love are hurt or slain, Or if the Lord hath smitten again The legions of the Cross, and hewn A path of blood where glory flares. The sabre strikes, the trumpet blares, The warhorse neighs,—Oh let us see The Crescent borne to victory] LAYLAH. Is there no news? FATMA. It is rumoured that the battle has begun. LEDMIYA. Under the very walls of Jerusalem ! ABDUL KHAN. Within the southern gate. FATMA. Many, many will fall. - Alas, alas!
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
… brows of a Goddess unknown On the ivory steps of the golden throne, Virginal brows and luminous With the star-stream flowing therein for blood. Ah, but electric thrills the Host Of the esoteric Eucharist] The Pagan power of the corn and wine Mystical, magical, hers and mine, The dove’plumed snake of the Holy Ghost That wings and writhes in the wounds unkissedl Lie there, love—if I love you indeed Who adore and wonder and faint for drouth Of the passion-flower fallen from the other side Of time and space the tedious tide. Lie there, lie there, an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 58
…HE EQUINOX In the fields all faery with flowers there lay The placid cows—that had nothing to say, Jeanne, No flame of words from maddening blood, But complacent chewing of the cud. I dared not whisper the sudden fear Of my heart in your miracle of an ear, Jeanne! I tightened my lips, and my hand on yours; So that you might think I loved you more. But now in the midnight the thought endures, And the love—ah what is the dream we adore? Suppose the infinite peace of the heart, Jeanne, The crest and crown of labour and art, Of the mystic quest, of the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 210
…nd under oaken skies. But best is grim December, The Goatish God his power; The Satyr blows the ember, And pain is passion’s flower; When blood drips over kisses, And madness sobs through wine :— Ah, mine !— The snake starts up and hisses And strikes and—I am thine! [He tram/res at thefeet of SPHINX toward c.1.c.'r. [HERMANUBIS recites. HERMANUBIS l. O coiled and constricted and chosen ! Ο tortured and twisted and twined! Deep spring of my soul deep frozen, The sleep of the truth of the mind! As a bright snake curled Round the Vine of the World …
1911 · PDF PAGE 150
…e. His boot caught the murderer behind the ear—and Edgar Rolles had played football The beast was dead. Edgar stooped and caught her up, blood leaping from her throat, while Ninon, shriek upon shriek rising in torment, rushed to rouse the people of the restaurant. “ Oh, my brother,” gasped the girl. “ Could you not understand? I wanted to die, so." They were her last words for long. Lavenue’s was a storm of chattering and gesticulating fools. The police pushed them aside. The corpse to the mortuary; the girl to the hospital; the man to the Post…
1911 · PDF PAGE 293
…, A scarlet bow for Thy horns! Here’ in the dusty air, I build Thee a shrine of yew. All green is the garland I wear, But I feed it with blood for dew ! After the orange bars That ribbed the green west dying Are dead, 0 Lord of the Stars, I come to Thee, come to Thee crying. The ambrosial moon that arose With breasts slow heaving in splendour Drops wine from her infinite snows, Ineffably, utterly, tender. O moon ! ambrosial moon! Arise on my desert of sorrow, That the magical eyes of me swoon With lust of rain to—morrow! Ages and ages ago I stoo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 33
… Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast. 2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4. Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. Then shall the winds gat…
1911 · PDF PAGE 193
…AQUARIUS. Upon the corpses of their children. MAGISTER TEMPLI. I. Have they quenched their thirst? AQUARIUS. Upon poppy—heads infused in blood. MAGISTER TEMPLI. The raven has croaked. AQUARIUS. The owl has hooted. CAPRICORNUS. The bat has flapped its wings. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Then . . . Lights! [CAPRICORNUS switches on the blue glare. 1. Brother Aquarius, I scent danger. AQUARIUS. I. Master, there are evil things abroad. [To CAPRICORNUS] Turn out the guard! CAPRICORNUS. Brethren, stand to your arms! [All PROBATIONERS rise and follow hz'm. He prick…
1911 · PDF PAGE 239
…rn and Love their long repose Shall burst, more bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdued. Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers, But votive tears and symbol flowers. Oh, cease! must hate and death return ? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past. Oh, might it die or rest at last! Βκο. ARIES. 1-4444. The battle is indeed fought. SOL. IN ARIES. 333—333. The victory is indeed won. BRO. ARIES. Brethren, the Sun is arisen. Let us depart i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 81
… empty—praise God, Who performed a miracle to make it so l—and we must perforce come and fill thousands more with good Christian flesh and blood, that was alive and jolly. Let us be off, though! The Preceptor sheds dullness as the sun sheds light, alike on the evil and on the good. One, two, three—I’ll race you all to Sidi Khaled. [They go of R. toward their horses, JOCELYN Singing as he goes. What is the worth Of a hound or a hawk? A monkey for mirth! A parrot for talk! Rosamond’s skin Is whiter than milk, Seductive as sin And softer than silk. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 222
…n the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth—-Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid floodl I bring ye laughter and tears, The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and sterile, Its flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystical bar That is set for wrath and weeping Against the children of earth ; But ye in singing and sleeping Shal…
1911 · PDF PAGE 198
…attling' in black floods without an ark! Ο spectral Wanderers of unholy Night! My soul hath bled {or you these sunless years, With bitter blood-drops running down like tears : Oh, dark, dark, dark, withdrawn from joy and light ! My heart is sick with anguish for your bale! Your woe hath been my anguish ; yea, Ι quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the heights and depths, the scope Of all our universe, with desperate hope Το find some solace for your wild unrest. * Légende: Wieniawski, fWiegenlied: Hauser. 16