THE WAKE WORLD
5
I saw the image of the One:
I came from darkness into L.V.X.
I pray Thee keep the holy tryst
Within this ring of Amethyst.
I.N.R.l.—me
crucified,
Me slain, interred, arisen, inspire!
T.A.R.O.—me glorified,
Anointed,
fill with frenzied A!
I pray Thee keep the holy tryst
Within this ring of Amethyst.
I eat my flesh:
I drink my blood
I gird my loins: l journey far:
For thou hast shown 0, +,
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777,
mpfihov,
I pray Thee keep the holy tryst
Within this ring of Amethyst.
Prostrate I wait upon Thy will,
Mine Angel, for this grace of union.
0 let this Sacrament distil
Thy conversation and communion.
I pray Thee keep the holy tryst
Within this ring of Amethyst.
l have not told you anything about myself, because it doesn’t
really
matter;
the only thing I want to tell you about is my Fairy Prince.
But as I am telling
you all this, I am
seventeen years old, and very
fair when you shut your eyes to look; but when you open them, I am
really dark, with a fair skin.
I have ever such heaps of hair, and big,
big, round
eyes, always
wondering
at everything.
Never
mind,
it’s
only a nuisance.
I shall tell you what happened
one day when I said