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1913 · PDF PAGE 215

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ead whose crown Makes up the light of every starry sphere . But know , when e' er the dead can hear our grief They linger all our barren earth around , And touch us with the wind's too -plaintive sound , Whispering back our grief within our ears . Then gather of your pain the ripened sheaf Turn to the living — they need all your tears . * THE DIFFERENCE . IF ever thou didst turn aside 1 Or could ' st unfaithful be, And then re - tread the wayward path And bring back love to me , I never could be glad again Or light of heart , but yet I'd put my…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 75

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…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 With the sun and the sea and the yellow sand ; And the face of earth is dark with love Of the lords of hell and the spirits above That move in the foggy air of night, And the spirit of God, most like a dove, Hovers, and lingers, and wings his flight, Spurned and rejected and lost to sight ; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills; For God is strong, and His iron wo…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 112

Oracles

…Of music and of spiritual fire, That the soul sleeps, forgotten of desire, Only remembering its God-like birth Reflected in the deity of earth, Becometh even as God. The pensive period Of night and day beats like a waving fan No more, no more : the years, Reft of their joys and fears, Pass like pale faces, leave the life of man Untroubled of their destines, Leave him forgotten of life and time, immortal, calm and wise. Only the ceaseless surf on coral towers, The changeless change of the unchanging ocean, Laps the bright night, with unsubstanti…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 133

Oracles

…er Above the lonely river Aloft : no more I saw than this, The shadowy bending to the first sweet kiss That surely could not end, though earth should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But deat…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 45

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…boten ! eide yevoiunv . . . would I were In Grantchester , in Grantchester ! — Some , it may be, can get in touch With Nature there , or earth , or such . And clever modern men have seen A Faun a- peeping through the green , And felt the Classics were not dead , To glimpse a Naiad 's reedy head , Or hear the Goat - foot piping low . . . But these are things I do not know . I only know that you may lie 26

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…re of the soul. So the altar-fires fade As the Godhead is displayed. Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the adjuration—here and now. otympas. The air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. Behold! it beams—it burns—it blooms. oLympas. Master, how subtly hast thou drawn

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1913 · PDF PAGE 151

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…re of the soul. So the altar-fires fade As the Godhead is displayed. Nay, we stir not. Everywhere Is our temple right appointed. All the earth is faery fair For us. Am I not anointed? The Sigil burns upon the brow At the adjuration—here and now. otympas. The air is laden with perfumes. marsyas. Behold! it beams—it burns—it blooms. oLympas. Master, how subtly hast thou drawn

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1944 · PDF PAGE 276

The Book of Thoth

…itles and Attribution of the Swrord Suit (Spades) Coin, Disk, of Pantacte Swit The Root of the Powers of Air. . The Root of the Powersof Earth w in & Peace in v5 Change 2 hh in + Sorrow Sin w Work 3 A in = Truce © in ¥ Power 4 @ in 2a Defeat ¥in ¥ Worry 8 ¥ in => Science we in 8 Success 6 we in x2 Futility h in Failure 7 2 in it Interference © in Ww Prudence 8 in 1 Cruelty 2 in ty Gain 9 Oim o Run Bin we Wealth 10

1961 · PDF PAGE 39

Liber Aleph

… thy Will as thou mayst make in thy Experiments herewith, and thus separate, as sayeth Trismegistus, the fine from the coarse, Fire from Earth, or, as we may say, assign each Effect to its true Cause. Seek then to perfect a conscious Satisfaction of every Part of that Will, so that the unconscious Disturbances be at last brought to Silence. Then will the Residuum be as an Elixir clarified and perfected, a true Symbol of that other hidden Will which is the Vector of thy Magical Self. a

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1961 · PDF PAGE 43

Liber Aleph

…e Face of your God, the Beginning of comfort, whose Eyes are the Brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable Variety! And again: Let there be no Creature upon her or within her the same. All here Members let them differ in their Qualities, and let there be no Creature equal with another. Here also is the Voice of true Science, crying aloud: Variation is the Key of Evolution. Thereunto Art cometh the third, perceiving Beauty in the Harmony of the Diverse. Know then, o my Son, that all Laws, …

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1899 · PDF PAGE 67

Tale of Archais

…die ; I have vowed to live With one aim only ; never to forgive The wrong the gods do me, and in my form Love his high self, by whom the earth is warm To-day, by whose defiance the universe Would crash in one inextricable curse To primal chaos. Hear me, I have sworn.” Then, suddenly, more glorious than the morn Tipping the golden tops of autumn hills With light, more countless than the myriad rills Of bright dew running off the bracken leaves, With gold more saturated than the sheaves In the red glow that promises the day Shall glory when the n…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 70

Oracles

…ilence of a primal sleep ! And He, The voice of Ages, answered me and said : Behold ! for I am He that formulates In darkness ! Child of Earth ! the Light doth shine

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1905 · PDF PAGE 17

Orpheus

…nd the moon shall adore me, Not seeing mean me, but Thyself in the glory, the splendidest star. Around me the planets shall thunder, And earth lift her voice to the sea; The moon shall be smitten with wonder, The starlight look love unto me. 18

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1906 · PDF PAGE 31

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…remendous gate; beyond the immanent miracle.4 O secret self of things ! I have nor feet nor wings Except to follow far beyond Heaven and Earth and Hell, Until I mix my mood And being in thee, as in my hermit’s hood I grow the thing I contemplate—that selfless solitude ! THE STORM. Written on the North Atlantic Ocean. In the sorrow of the silence of the sunset, when the world’s heart sinks to sleep, And the waking wind arises from the wedding of the aether and the deep, There are perfumes through the saltness of the even ; there are hints of flo…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 72

The Goetia

…coresa ta agsage Do bomila Jpame caosago od stones from the firmament of wrath, such as was not in the ages of Time the beginning of the Earth Do-0-a-ipe ADNI, Das ABosheh cameliatza od 3odDameranu hami caosago, and in the name of Adni, which Mosheh spake and there appeared creatures of earth Das quasabe Das oreri ge-poilape: oD Do-0-a-ipe Schema Amathia, das who destroyed what the big stones did not: andin the name Schema Amathia, which Joshua vinu od ore pa-aot3a vaoresaji ili-i tabila @ibeon od Toshua invoked, and the Sun remained over ye, O…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 145

Orpheus

…ze, (My love’s in shuddering amaze, Of birth deceived and death forlorn, And mine in anger, ay! and scorn !) He stood—the mighty One! So earth And heaven proclaimed that fearful birth: So they grew silent lest he curse. Dead silence hushed the universe; And then in clear calm tones he spoke: “Fools! who have meddled, and awoke The inmost forces of the world! One lightning from my hand had hurled Both to annihilation’s brink. What foolish goddess bade ye think Ye thus could play with thunder, roll Your wheels upon the world, control The stately …

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1907 · PDF PAGE 14

Rosa Coeli

…I am ! ” Found myself in my little bed asleep Having been butted thither by the Ram. X UT in the dream of you, my starry sweet, It is my earth I lose six times in seven. I have the Freedom of the City of Heaven ; But strange (though fair) are all the stars I meet. The dull familiar and the homely drear Are lost for ever. Being asleep, I fear. Wake ! Let me cut the cable of my mind ! My harbour lies before, and not behind. Dreams are all lies ; those jetty shadows lie When the full moon doth crown the midnight sky. But shadows image truth, and d…

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1919 · PDF PAGE 205

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…ace and eternity, And where the oil, the Holiest Breath, With Its first whisper dedicateth Its new life to a further death. Iwas cold as earth: the night Had given way. One star hung bright Over the church, now gray; I rose up to greet the ray That thrilled through elm and chestnut, lit The grass, made diamonds of it, And bade the weir’s long smile of spray Leap with laughter for the day. The birds woke over all the weald; The sullen peasants slouched afield; The lilies swayed before the breeze That murmured matins in the trees; The trout leapt…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 60

Tale of Archais

…ed with satellite and asteroid, Where our desire is welcome. Yea, the night Holds in her bosom such a world of light As in this sick sad Earth would consume man With its quick blaze of truth. Thy bitter ban, Zeus, shall most utterly be made to cease. We must fight Fate and conquer it. Our peace, Our passion, is the silent answer given To the importunate questioning of heaven. Thou art supreme, my king, and I in thee ; We have life hard by its chill throat, to choke Its petty gasping pleasures, and to see The ancient altars with new incense smok…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 20

The Star and the Garter

Our tent a little, bring us news Of the great world we have lost for—this! What fool exclaims—‘ to lose!” ? To lose? Ay! earth and heaven for one small kiss ! But he shall sing beside our fire The epic of the world’s desire; How Freedom fares, how Art yet revels Sane in the dance of dogs and devils. His thunder voice shall climb and crash, Scourge liars with tongue’s lightning lash, Through ranks of smitten tyrants drive, Till bosoms heave, and eyes outflash, And it is good to be alive. He shall ride off at dawn, and we Shall look upon our life…

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