THE EQUINOX
like an unfledged eaglet; they shall get them fins, that they
may swim.
53. That they may swim, O my beloved, swim far in the
warm honey of Thy being, O blessed one, O boy of beati-
tude!
54. This heart of mine is girt about with the serpent that
devoureth his own coils.
55. When shall there be an end, O my darling, O when
shall the Universe and the Lord thereof be utterly swal-
lowed up?
56. Nay! who shall devour the Infinite? who shall undo
the Wrong of the Beginning?
57. Thou criest like a white cat upon the roof of the Uni-
verse; there is none to answer Thee. .
58. Thou art like a lonely pillar in the midst of the sea;
there is none to behold Thee, O Thou who beholdest all!
59. Thou dost faint, thou dost fail, thou scribe; cried the
desolate Voice; but I have filled thee with a wine whose sa-
vour thou knowest not.
60. It shall avail to make drunken the people of the old
gray sphere that rolls in the infinite Far-off; they shall lap
the wine as dogs that lap the blood of a beautiful courtesan
pierced through by the Spear of a swift rider through the
city.
61. I too am the Soul of the desert; thou shalt seek me yet
again in the wilderness of sand.
62. At thy right hand a great lord and a comely; at thy
left hand a woman clad in gossamer and gold and having the
stars in her hair. Ye shall journey far into a land of pesti-
lence and evil; ye shall encamp in the river of a foolish city
forgotten; there shall ye meet with Me.
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