THE RITE OF SATURN
So did the neophyte that would gaze
Into dead Pharaoh’s awful eyes
Start from incalculable amaze
Το clutch the initiate‘s place and prize.
He bore the blistering thought aloft:
It blazed in battle on his plume:
With sage and warrior enfeofi’ed,
He rushed alone through tower and tomb,
The myriad men, the cohorts armed,
Are shred like husks : the ensanguine brand
Leaps like a flame, a flame encharmed
Το fire the pyramid heaven-spanned
Wherein dead Pharaoh sits and stares,
Swathed in the wrappings of the tomb,
With eyes whose horror flits and flares
Like corpse~lightsglimmering in the gloom
Till all’s a blaze, one roar of flame,
Death universal, locked and linked :—
Aha! one names the awful Name—
The twin red planets are extinct.
[A flame.
[The lamp burn: out, and darkness covers all.
[LEADER οι: THE CHORUS setretly removes hell-broth vase.