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1903 · PDF PAGE 57

The Star and the Garter

… set By fatuous phantoms of desire? Back! O I love you evermore. But, be our bed the bridal sky ! I love you, love you. Hither, shore Of far unstained eternity ! There we will rest. Beware! Beware! For I am young, and you are fair. Nay! Iam old in this, you know! Ah! heart of God! I love you so! 55

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1911 · PDF PAGE 60

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… summer lightning darts and curls. Her soul a Parian marble shrine, Centred in lily-cups that fold Their carven petals, smooth and cold, Far o’er a lake of frozen wine— Yet deep within whose inmost fold Sleepeth a snake: the crystal brine Of endless sorrow seals his shrine; Wiser than Sin is he, so old! ETHEL ARCHER.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 60

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… summer lightning darts and curls. Her soul a Parian marble shrine, Centred in lily-cups that fold Their carven petals, smooth and cold, Far o’er a lake of frozen wine— Yet deep within whose inmost fold Sleepeth a snake: the crystal brine Of endless sorrow seals his shrine; Wiser than Sin is he, so old! ETHEL ARCHER.

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1909 · PDF PAGE 14

777

…s built.- The juxtaposition and proportion of its parts should be fully studied. Practice alone will enable the student to determine how far an analogy may be followed out. Again, some analogies may escape a superficial study. The Beetle is only con- nected with the sign Pisces through the Tarot Trump “The Moon.” The Camel is only connected with the High Priestess through the letter 3. Since all things whatsoever (including no thing) may be placed upon the Tree of Life, the Table could never be complete. It is already somewhat unwieldy ; we hav…

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1938 · PDF PAGE 12

The Heart of the Master

…yet not burnt through, in the glory of that Light, vibrating to, yet not vibrating altogether with, the vigour of that Pulse, am just so far attuned to the Heart of the Master that what was pure Rapture in that sublime moment of union is translated into what seems a solemn music—borne very far through the still air—a Voice declaring the Secret of the Sanctuary to every ear in just such measure as that ear is able to receive it. The Ten Secret Joys of the Master. At first the music is as if muffled, a murmur of the wind behind impenetrable veils…

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1902 · PDF PAGE 70

Tannhäuser

…ng That human lig^ht and livinar ! I will win. He must have banished Her—and dreams of me. Tannhauser {in sleep). Elizabeth ! Venus. His far-off baby-love ! I triunipli, then ! The Goddess hatli withdrawn. His mind works back to childhood, babydom, Will grow to manhood and remember me. Tannhauser {awaking, leaps to his feet). Freedom! Elizabeth! All hail to Her ! Radiant Goddess ! Liberty and love ! Venus. What sayest thou ? Curse Her ! Tannhauser. My Elizabeth! 68

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1903 · PDF PAGE 84

The Star and the Garter

…assian founts, ‘A thousand garters heralded ‘Thy Hawless solitary star: ‘A million garters shall bested ‘The poer's turn, when, lone and far, All are dismissed: Some man, low brute, Cry “Shame, O star that would not shoot, ‘And yet went out!” But I, my dear, (Good-bye!) get neither shriek nor groan : Kiss, curse, cat’s hiss, I shall not hear, ‘My dear, for I shall be alone. im

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1905 · PDF PAGE 31

Oracles

…ome, nestle with me in sweet Death’s hot womb ! Two sunny eyes ! And this is all my ruin ! Two gleaming thighs ! And all to my undoing ! Far-swelling curves in ivory rapture rise Warm and too white—bethink you of the wooing ! A kiss of fire ; A touch of passionate yearning Steals higher and higher— And kisses are returning ! The strong white grasp draws me still nigher and nigher, Our fusing forms in one fierce furnace burning ! 26

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1898 · PDF PAGE 46

Songs of the Spirit

…On the outer side Death stood with wing implacable, with sword Steeped in the furnace cruel and abhorred Of Hell, in Styx well tempered. Far and wide Its adamant smote out, a full fierce tide Of vengeance and destruction from the Lord, While past yon door with blood well overscored Safety and Peace and Passover abide. Blood on the lintel ! But within our gates Spilt our own blood lies curdling on the ground, Crying to God from each envenomed wound While the fierce combat yet no whit abates, And though protected, confident, unspent, Sighs for re…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 68

The Argonauts

18 ARGONAUTAE Methinks that under cover of the night I may escape Aeetes. JASON. If he chase, Our Argo is not battered by rough winds So far but what some fight were possible. meDEA. [Leads forward ABSYRTUS.] I know a better way than that, my lord. This boy shall come with us. JASON. Ah, not to Greece! Aea needs to-morrow’s king. MEDEA. “With us” I said. ‘To Greece ”—I said not. CHORUS. What is this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come, love, to the long years of love with me! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 75

Sir Palamedes

…hanting their pagan gramarye Unto the dread volcano-king. “ Now, then, by Goddes reed!” quod he, “ Behold the secret of my quest In this far-famed stability| 69

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1919 · PDF PAGE 387

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

…on to the Law, as a sweet flower at the feet of Shakya-Thub-pa, becomes a Srotapatti in this birth. The Siddhis of perfec- tion may loom far, far away; but the first step is taken, the stream is entered, and he may gain the eyesight of the moun- tain eagle, the hearing of the timid doe. It seems rather a bold assertion that Srotapatti is so easily attained, and I know of no Canonical Buddhist authority for this statement. (A Srotapatti becomes an Arahat in seven more incarnations. “Siddhis’”—magic powers.) 57. Tell him, O Aspirant, that true de…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 82

White Stains

76 A PAEAN IN THE SPRINGTIDE This is our trust and our joy—beyond death we look on to the far light Flaming from hell our last home, this is the key of our might. Come, fiery birds of a clime we know not, and sing us your paean ; Triumph of gods that are known secretly, not by a name, Gods whose implacable feet have trampled the god Galilean, Cast though they be into hell, given to death and to shame. Heaven and hell has striven in war, Sappho and Hylas, with Christ and Jah ; We are of those, though they lose their power, Never shall fade their…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 155

The Winged Beetle

…r, bid its brew to boil ! Ah, Sweetheart, we were barren as Sahara, But on Sahara burns our subtle star. Soon an oasis, now too lone and far, Shall bloom with all the blossoms of Bokhara : See ! o’er the brim the mystic fountain flows ! Cull from the caldron the ensanguine Rose !

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1913 · PDF PAGE 37

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…er ; All but love is left behind : Death shall prove the master ! Now the sparrows cease their cry ; Silence stands appalling. Still and far and deep I'll lie, Where the snow is falling . FRAGMENTARY VIEWS . 1. Waters . ARCHES all green and chestnuts hardly white , Rough grass , and clumpy marigolds I see Within the water : but how changed quite ! A world begins , where tree doth grow from tree . What dusky Earths , what Fires at all compare With thee , what Air , what Shadows lightly wrought , Thou living Water ! Settled softly there , Proud w…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 83

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…-drums. Section Gg. The adept should hâve realised that his Act of Union with the angel implies (i) the death of his old mind save in so far as his unconscious éléments preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elementa themselves. But their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. He then, by conscious compréhension of them separatefy and together, becomes the “Angel” of his Angel, as Hermes is the Word of Zeus, whose own voice is Thunder. Thus in this section the adept utters articula…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 147

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…the rainbow cloven, A never-fading path of golden glory, Whereof the lone Leucadian promontory Holds one divinest gate: the other troven Far, far beyond in interlunar skies, Where the Himalayas stir them, and arise To listen to the song that swells our arteries. O moving labyrinth sun-crowned, dread maze Ofstarry paths, of Zeus-untrodden ways, Of mystic vales unfooted of the deep, Our mother, virgin yet in many places Unseen of man, beholden of the faces Only of elemental shapes of sleep That are ourselves, her daughters wild and fair Caught ny…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 9

In Residence

…he New Humour Ballade of the One-Eyed Tout . Ballade of Lawn Tennis . Ballade of Serious Ballades Ballade of Old Admirals A Refrain of a Far Country A Ballade of Farewell vii PAGE 1X

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1906 · PDF PAGE 22

Gargoyles

…the full forbidden cup, Till, in an interval of dance and song, Hassan forgot his manners—loud and long. Struck with confusion, forth he fares, takes ship To utmost Ind and far-off Serendip. Full forty years he there abides: at last, Rich and respected, he contemns the past :— ‘* If I declare myself, there ’s hope, I wot, Hassan ’s remembered, and his fault forgot !—” Determines to revisit home. Sweet airs Accomplishing the voyage, he repairs Unto the barber. ‘‘Tell me of the state! Haroun still holds the royal Caliphate?” 14

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1913 · PDF PAGE 124

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…ly . What sea - swept star , What planet , torn but insolent , Has built those moonlight sunflowers dominant O' er waste worlds wide and far ? 105

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