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The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII) (1912), PDF p. 284
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THE EQUINOX
the Book of Deuteronomy at Sothebys’: the very timbers of
the ship in which he was “brought in infancy” to England
shivered with ecstasy; the girls at the London Wall
Ex—
change unanimously resolved never again to ring up 3469,
however often and however angrily asked for, that the Restored—
to-Favour might remain in the Adytum of God—nourished
Silence for ever.
Neuburg himself wrote the following sonnet—
" They also serve who only stand, and—Waite,
Sweeter than sugar and as soft as silk,
You could not stand, you would not serve!
What {ate
Threatened the hope of Horlick’s Malted Milk?
Graver than Gladstone, decenter than Dilke,
You, called to be the Peter of the State,
Tried in your agony to do a bilk :—
Though you could handle rod, and master bait.
“ Now all is changed.
Offended Crowley cries
Upon your shoulderi
All's red nose, wet eyes.
You shall be Mary now as well as Martha!
The mystic quest is yours as well as mine,
Dilucid:
sacramentally, in fine,
Victoria loved Albert:
I love Arthur.”
I shall now draw the Veil of Sanctimoniosity upon this
touching scene.
A. QUILLER, JR.
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