The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE SHIP Tear his heart out, fling it forth Where the vultures may enhearse Its horror from the Universe. [This ts dene in the west, but above wharf. The voice from the west. The hills are covered ; the rain shrieks Yet fiercer on the peaks. The voice from below. The water lifts the ship; she rights. jutian. Ah! Foulest of foul sights ! Here is the third and greatest villain. (He seizes the zvLv.) [To shrine] Saith Our God the manner of his death? Jovian. Black to green grows horror’s blank Sickening from the stinking soul ! The voice from the shrine. Cut his navel, flank to flank! Tear the bowels out; be the whole Burnt to ashes on the centre! Black oblivion blot him! Ban Every trace that might re-enter Any memory of man! [The sentence ts executed. The voice from the west. The mountains are all covered; the rain roars Now on a sea that hath no shores! The voice from below. Haste! the ship slips into the foam. Haste! leave the hapless home! [JULIAN and Jovian bear the body of joun down the steps of 69