THE EQUINOX
34. Thy name is Death, it may be, or Shame, or Love.
So thou bringest me tidings of the Beloved One, I shall
not ask thy name.
35. Where is now the Master? cry the little crazy boys.
He is dead! He is shamed! He is wedded! and their
mockery shall ring round the world.
36. But the Master shall have had his reward.
The laughter of the mockers shall be a ripple in the hair
of the Beloved One.
37. Behold! the Abyss of the Great Deep. Therein is
a mighty dolphin, lashing his sides with the force of the
waves.
38. There is also an harper of gold, playing infinite
tunes.
39. Then the dolphin delighted therein, and put off his
body, and became a bird.
40. The harper also laid aside his harp, and played in-
finite tunes upon the Pan-pipe.
41. Then the bird desired exceedingly this bliss, and
laying down its wings became a faun of the forest.
42. The harper also laid down his Pan-pipe, and with
the human voice sang his infinite tunes.
43. Then the faun was enraptured, and followed far;
at last the harper was silent, and the faun became Pan
in the midst of the primal forest of Eternity.
44. Thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, O
my prophet!
45. Then the adept was rapt away in bliss, and the
beyond of bliss, and exceeded the excess of excess.
46. Also his body shook and staggered with the burden
of that bliss and that excess and that ultimate nameless.
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