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THE SCORPION No! I am sorry. Ι am your good friend. I will take you back to your father. He is not dead. I am sure he is not dead. THE CHILD. I do not understand you. LAYLAH. Oh, you shall understand. Yourfather will make you understand! [changing again to roughness]. What was your mother like? Had she your golden hair, and the com- plexion like a shaved sow? And the simper, and the grey eyes? I have grey eyes too; but mine are steel—grey, true as steel; and yours are chill and watery. But you have your father’s temper, and his silence, and his…
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…gs, your friends, and you shall be his toy to play with and break and make sport of. He will twist your skinny arm—sol [She ent/ches the child's wrist, twists if, anu' makes her scream. Spindle—legged little spider I [The child 62765 her των.] Venomous as a scorpion! THE CHILD. My father’s crest is a scorpion. LAYLAH. No! Nol it cannot be. I am mad. I hear a strange thing. Now I know what I saw in your face. Child! Child] I am sorry I hurt you. Ι want to be friends with you. Iam all-powerful here. No harm shall come to you] His child] Come and …
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…ver her, as vigilant as on the night of her first ordeal. In the shadow stood a physician ; at the bedside sat a nurse, and in her arms a Child. “ Brother! ” she said faintly, “ the number of the grade is Three, and I have given myself three times. Once to the brute, once to the man—my man! (her hand pressed his, oh! too feebly !) and now—40 God!“ The tears sprang to his eyes. “ It is for you,” she whispered, “ to understand the child.” She fell back. The physician ran forward He knew that he had no useful purpose there: but he motioned Edgar aw…
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THE SCORPION LAYLAH. Lord Bishop, I have heard that phrase thrice in three score years. The first time a man used it to destroy a child : the second time a child used it to murder her brother; this time you use it to torture and burn an honourable adversary. BISHOP. Child of the devil, you blaspheme, Be silent! On the first count, guilty. [Several JUDGES, hut uot R1NALDo,echo “ Guilty.” Through- out this same RINALDO sits absolutely sileut amt motionless, except that how and theu he makes a gesture of weg;/iners and z'mþatz'eme. THE CLERK. Second…
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THE EQUINOX he slew his father; and all I look for is for some one to slay me also 1 THE CHILD. But you say his father is my father. LAYLAH. Was! was] THE CHILD. But it is my brother who was slain by Sliman. My father is in Rome; he is coming hither with the next fair wind. LAYLAI-I. Fair wind! God] It is I then who have slain our son. The scorpion I My sole token. [She/"alts on SLIMAN’s corpse] My son 1 only son of my love] one sole jewel of the world wert thou. And the accurséd scorpion has betrayed me. Oh, let me from this hour throw off all…
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… of love—the minister of revenge So then—— be he avenged ! [She strihes Με neck of SLIMAN and he fel/'s dead. She 51072415 duþe/$ed. THE CHILD [coming/forward and pickingש%? the scorpion that SLIMAN had in his hand]. I thank thee, lady. My brother is avenged. [She dips Με scorpion in his blaoa' amifes/ehs it in her dress. LAYLAH [shortly]. Your brother lies there dead. THE CHILD. I am sorry, if he was my brother. He was a brave boy. He picked me up and threw me to a servant just as if I had been an old tabard. LAYLAH. Your father’s trick ! THE …
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…ar! He prays you to keep her among the women until he return and place her in his harem. LAYLAH. A man! He is a man! I have borne a man- child, a lion, a conqueror! ACHME'I‘. Indeed, he has slain twenty Christians with his own hand. And still he is in the front of the battle. He laughed: “ To—day I am a man, I need thee no more; be my Chamberlain and carry this toy to my mother.” I think she is a princess. THE CHILD. My father is the Grand Master of the Temple, and he is coming to cut all your heads off. LAYLAH. Leave her with us! Ride back on …
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…time to stop the fight. Edgar Rolles drove Ida Pendragon back to his studio in Montparnasse. All the way she clung to him, sobbing like a child. He sat very still, save to caress her hair from which the \turban had fallen. " It is the victory of Essence over Form,” he mused, “ of Matter over Motion. Woman is Form, and thinks Form is Being. Oh my God I ” he started up. “ I am a man. Suppose I, who am Being, think Being is Form! . . . I cannot even attach a meaning to the phrase! I am blinder than shorn Samson. Both must be equal, equally true, eq…
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… and peace! The God's most holy presence asks the hymn, The solemn hymn, the hymn of agony, Lest, in the air of glory that surrounds The child of Semelé, we lose the earth And corporal presence of the Zeus-begot. AUTONOE. Yea, sisters, raise the chant of riotl Lift Your wine-sweetvoices, move your wine-stained limbs In joyful invocation ! MAENADS. Ay, we sing. AGAVE. Hail, child of Semele! To her as unto thee Be reverence, be deity, be immortality ! Shame! treachery of the spouse or the Olympian house, Hera ! thy grim device against the sweet c…
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THE EARTH THE child of miracle to the world, greeting. I reach my hands to the leaves and dabble in the dew: I sprinkle dew on you for kisses. I kneel down and hold the grass of the black earth to my bosom; I crush the earth to my lips as if it were a grape. And the wine of Demeter flushes my cheeks; they burn with joy of youth Why should I greet the world? Because my heart is bursting with love for the world. Love, say 1? Why not lust? Is not lust strength, and merriment, and the famine that only the infinite can stay? And why do I call myself t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 102
…es fast, for I can hear his hoofs ring the gallop above all the trampling. LAYLAH. It is Sliman! His horse has silver shoes. Wait there, child! I have joy for you to come. [A horse i: heam’ galloping into the caariyam’, and a bait/e—cry, La Allah illa Allah, rings aut iii a ὄψ᾽: clear voice, a mice weary yet suþrerhely haþþy. [Almost beside herself] Sliman! to me! to your mother! [Slimah mien, in his right hand his sword 51111 driþ— ping Haud. SLIMAN. Splendid fun, mother! We should have had the whole city, but those cursed Knights of Malta thr…
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…0565 ; [here is a smallflame thereah.] TAURUS ane! LIBRA draw the imter veil aflarl. LIBRA 761717775 and hneels. LIBRA. Daughter of Glory, child Of Earth’s Dione mild By the Father of all, the [Egis-bearing King! 83
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… God. ALL FOUR PROBATIONERS. [Whilehe does so.]. Hail unto the most divine Lord Mercury! FIRST PROBATIONER. [To FR. GEMINI] Our Brother, child 97
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… stealth that we are here assembled. Know that Saturn hath been deceived, having swallowed a black stone, thinking it to be his son, the child Jupiter. But Jupiter is here enthroned, and shall overthrow his father. Beware then lest ye break silence—until Jupiter be ready to make war! TYPHON. Him that speaketh will I slay forthright! [A longþause. 23
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44 THE EQUINOX Things beyond history and art In the tresses that tumble over her earl In what grim gloom did Satan get This child on what wood—nymph dishevelled? Whence was the wind that swayed the woods On their bestial beatitudes? Or what garden of rose and violet Lay under the moon wherein they revelled? She is like a poppy-petal. All the seas of sleep are hidden Under the languorous eyelids, whose Lashes are long and strong to bruise My heart where her lusts like hornets settle On sacred leaves, on flowers forbidden. She is like a drug of wo…
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38 THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Caught in that fiery wave, Her love and life she gave With one last kissing cry the unborn child to save. And thou, Ο Zeus, the sire Of Bromius—hunter dire !4- Didst snatch the unborn babe from that Olympian fire: In thine own thigh most holy That offspring melancholy Didst hide, didst feed, on light, ambrosia, and moly. Ay ! and with serpent hair And limbs divinely {air Didst thou, Dionysus, leap forth to the nectar air ! Ay! thus the dreams of fate We dare commemorate, Twining in lovesome curls the spoil of mate and mate…
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… unto Our Lady or to the Beast whereon She rideth; nor unto the Virgin her daughter nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in the End and the Beginning. 27
1911 · PDF PAGE 95
… He is dead, he is dead. LAYLAH. Hurt, said the messenger. LEDMIYA. Now comes another from the fight, riding hard. He bears a fair—haired child across the saddle. Oh, do look! LAYLAH. Is there no messenger? LEDMIYA. It is Achmet! It is good Achmet! 87
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…fire like, earth like, like unto light, like unto darkness, shining as do the Stars, moist, hot, cold Spirit, hail to Thee, ever laughing Child-God, all-knowing. Through Thee alone can we hope to reach Light and Truth. [Returns to his seal. [SOR. GEMINI þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe; Then came forth the Gods thereof, The aeons of the Bornless Beyond. Then was the Voice vibrated ; Then was the Name decl…
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…us—The Eyes of Dorothy—Bathyllus—The Mantra-Yogi—The Poet and his MuseiLilith—Sportand Marriage— The TwinSaThe Convert—The Sorceress—The Child—Clytie— A Slim Gilt Soul—The Silence of Columbine—The Archaeologist ——The Ladder—Belladona—ThePoet at Bay—Ut—Rosa Decidua— The Circle and the Point—In Memoriam—Ad Fidelem Infidelem— The Sphinx—~The ]ew of Fez—The Pentagram—Song—An Hymn —Prologue to Rodin in Rime—The Camp Fire——Ave Adonai—The Wild Ass—The Opium-Smokervln Manu Dominæ. Mr Todd : a Morality, TRANSLATIONS: L’Amour et le CräneA-L'Alchimie de Do…