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… EQUINOX III JEANNE A PASTORAL TO RA YMOND RADCL YFFE “ Hey diddle diddle! the cat and the fiddle ! The cow jumped over the moon‘” I LAID mine ear against your heart, Jeanne I A masterpiece of nature turned A masterpiece of art, With your blanched Egyptian beauty foiled By the hungry eyes, and the red mouth soiled By the honey of mine that your greed has spoiled, Jeanne The body a corpse and the soul inurned ! Against your heart I laid mine ear, Jeanne! And the clock went ticking, ticking. How could I choose but hear, Jeanne ? Ah me I what thoug…
1911 · PDF PAGE 280
…h it burned in a furnace: Thee, Thee we invoke! Behold, I am yesterday, to-day, and the brother of The Morrowl Iam born again and again. Mine is the unseen force from which the Gods are sprung; that giveth life unto the dwellers in the watch—towers of the Universe. I am the charioteer of the East, Lord 01 the Past and the Future. I see by mine own inward light; Lord of Resurrection, who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is from the House of Death. Ο ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles, who keep Watch over the Universe! Ye who comp…
1911 · PDF PAGE 247
…O. Let us burn her upon the altar of burnt offering. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the fire my tears would be dried up ; and these tears are of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us throw her to the sacred crocodile SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the water my heart would be chilled; and this heart is of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us throw her to the Winds from the Watchtowers of Silence. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. But in the wind my hymns would not be heard ; and these hymns are of mine offering to the Lord. LEO. Let us bury her in the consecrated mountain! …
1911 · PDF PAGE 301
… lone-lying sea, The swoon of the moon, Your swoon into me ; The sentinel sadness Of cliff-clinging pine, That night of delight You were mine, you were mine! You were mine, Ο my saint, My maiden, my mate, By the might of the right Of the night of our fate. Though Ι fall, though I faint, Though I char, though I choke, By the hour of our power I invoke, I invoke! Z 123
1911 · PDF PAGE 68
…e. He: Thou didst know it of old, didst thou not? I: The son of the mountain? He: The Stone of the Crossways. [: It is enough. Let me fix mine eye upon the door. He. It is well. Then I obeyed him, and in that obedience forgot him. For though mine eye wandered often, and although once the planks beneath me threatened to give way and plunge me once more into the stream, yet I strove as a man may. Then, mine eye being accustomed to the gloom, I beheld by my side, yet a little above me, the dark man my brother. 60
1911 · PDF PAGE 45
LIBER A’ASH 19. There is no act or passion that shall not be a hymn in mine honour. 20. All holy things and all symbolic things shall be my sacraments 21. These animals are sacred unto me; the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. All corpses are sacred unto me; they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. All lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am the hideous god; and who mastereth me is u…
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…f beneath a mask: Iam a black and terrible God. 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. 17. But the first kiss of love shall be radiant on your lips; and all my darkness and terror shall turn to light and joy. I8. Only those who fear shall fail. Those who have bent their backs to the yoke of slavery until they can no longer stand upright; them will I despise. 19. But you who have defied the law; you who have con- quered by subtlety or force; you will I …
1911 · PDF PAGE 298
…ithout fear ; Pious, chaste, and sober. I solemnly sacrifice This first-fruit flower of wine For a vehicle of thy vice, As I am Thine to be mine. For five in the year gone by I pray Thee give to me one; A lover stronger than I, A moon to swallow the sun ! May he be like a lily-white goat, Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for his throat, A scarlet bow for his horns! CANCER. May our Lady Artemis be favourable! TAURUS. May our Lady Artemis never be awakened ! [NYMPH?ששמ/!ושמששand dances her "uirginal(lanæ. ΡΑΝ. Of what worth is the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 140
… God. I could tell you wonderful things about what I have done to God. I was a Nonconformist preacher once: I had secret sins. They were mine! Mine! How proud I was of them! Every Sunday I used to preach against the sin that I had done most in the week. There are many butterflies in the desert ; 132 װ
1911 · PDF PAGE 255
…ation ! The whole flower-life of earth and sky and sea From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as the river-cleaving Lotus—barne lord of Silence: I create Or discreate, both in my bosom heaving : My lightest look is mother ofa Fate: My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine older mind, I am: I am not, but all-changing move The worlds evolving in a golden ladder, Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one…
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…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, and let me bleed To death in the breath of the murderous mouth I 45
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…dren of Earth ! rejoice l rejoice exceedingly ; for your salvation is at hand. 4. The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into mine unutterablejoy. 5. I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness. 6. I am not come to rebuke you, or to enslave you. 7. I bid you not turn from your voluptuous ways, from your idleness, from your follies. 8. But I bring you joy to your pleasure, peace to your languor, wisdom to your folly. 9. All that ye do is right, if so be that ye enjoy it. 10.…
1911 · PDF PAGE 210
…od 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 83
… wz‘thfem', but gives up sound. SIR RINALDO. You are a brave maiden. LAYLAH. You are—an infidel. Ι had not my dagger, or your shriek —not mine—would have summoned my kin. RINALDO. I have a score good knights within sound of my horn. And your kin are but the dotards and women and little children. Your fighting men are away. LAYLAH. Ay, slaying your good knights. 75
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…ad bright ones. 2. I who comprehend in myself all the vast and the minute, all the bright and the dark, have mitigated the brilliance of mine unutterable splendour, sending forth V.V.V.V.V. as a ray of my light, as a messenger unto that small dark orb. 3. Then V.V.V.V.V. taketh up the word, and sayeth: 4. Men and women of the Earth, to you am I come from the Ages beyond the Ages, from the Space beyond your vision ; and I bring to you these words. 5. But they heard him not, for they were not ready to receive them. 6. But certain men heard and un…
1911 · PDF PAGE 249
…wise may break it at their need. LEO. Brother Aries, in my heart is fidelity—fidelity— fidelity. ARIES. Brother Leo, a god has whispered in mine ear: it is folly—folly—folly. LEO. The sun will be obscured in a moment: and no pilgrims can come to.night. ARIES. Νο pilgrims can come to-night. LEO. There will be no more sacrifice. ARIES. There will be no more sacrifice. [SATAN—TYPHON, SCORPIO—APOPI-IIS, am! BESZ 6771'67' silent/y in ῤγσσεπίσπ. The [ig/zl grows maium/wil)! dimmer] ARIEs. Hail, brethren! Ye are come to adore the splen— dour οί the sun? SA…
1911 · PDF PAGE 211
…ot deaf to the Voice of the Charmer, Not blind to the sweep of the sword! I strike to the deep That thou stir in thy sleep! Rise up from mine innermost being! Lift up the gemmed head to the heart! Lift up till the eyes that were seeing Be blind, and their life depart! Till the Eye that was blind Be a lamp to my mind! Coil fast all thy coils on me, dying, Absorbed in the sense of the Snake! Stir! leave the flower-throne, and up-flying! Hiss once, and hiss thrice, and awake! Then crown me and cling! Flash forwardaand spring ! Flash forth on the fire…
1911 · PDF PAGE 84
…se. RINALDO. Your feet are fair. . . . Can you tell fortunes? LAYLAH. On the forehead of every man his destiny is written. RINALDO. Read mine. LAYLAH. Let me go to my house. RINALDO‘ Then I will read yours. You are to be captive to a strange knight. LAYLAH. Not to you, Sir Knightl RINALDO. The rest is dark. LAYLAH. You dare not touch me. RINALDO. Sit there I [Heseats Iter on the wall ofΜε well,] Do you guess what I have been thinking as I rode through the sun to these palms? LAYLAH. Some new plot to carry fire and sword through our quiet village…
1911 · PDF PAGE 237
THE RITE OF MARS He is in me, and I in Him! Mine is the crystal radiance That filleth Ether to the brim Wherein all stars and suns may dance. I am the beautiful and glad, Rejoicing in the golden day. I am the spirit silken-clad That {areth on the fiery way. I have escaped from Him, whose eyes Are closed at eventide, and wise To drag thee to the House 01 Wrong :> I am armed! I am armed! I am strong! I am strong ! I make my way : opposing horns Ofsecret foemen push their lust In vain: my song their fury scorns; They sink, they gravel in the dust. […
1911 · PDF PAGE 266
…e priest, the sacrifice, the shrine, I am the love and life of the divine! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness are surely mink Are mine ! Venus am I, the love and light of earth, The wealth of kisses, the delight of tears, The barren pleasure never come to birth, The endless, infinite desire of years I am the shrine at which thy long desire Devoured thee with intolerable fire, I was song, music, passion, death, upon thy lyre—— Thy lyre! I am the Grail and I the Glory now: I am the flame and fuel of thy breast; I am the star of God upon thy b…