The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS Of shadow-peopled Infancy, Through Death and Birth, to a diviner day; A paradise of vaulted bowers, Lit by downward-gazing flowers, And watery paths that wind between Wildernesses calm and green, Peopled by shapes too bright to see, And rest, having beheld ; somewhat like thee; Which walk upon the sea, and chant melodiously! [VENUS manifests αἰτίας:. PISCES slips away la ihe throne of LUNA] [LUNAplay: her mnquen’ng melody" VENUS. Oh! Oh I LIBRA. Holier than pleasure is pain; nobler is abstinence than indulgence ; from sloth and faith we turn to toil and science ; from the tame victories of the body to the wild triumphs of the mind. VENUS. It is the ruin of the temple. LIBRA. For from thee cometh the Utterance of the Present; but of the Future no word. VENUS. And thou wilt? LIBRA. The Word. [SATURN comes aut and dame: his dame, anzi/alls, [?!]”שולש the hem of LIBRA’s when] VENUS. Who is this? These are not my dances; these footsteps tread not my measures; not me he worships by the paces and pauses of his feet! [LUNAplays a wild and horrihle melodyf [SATURN drags LIBRA 270471215/{ ?שוטπίῃΜε (lush. [The PROBATIONERS ,??/₪15 similar/y; MARS with MARS am! VENUS with VENUS. Same, laa, stand itala/ed.] * Polonaise in D : Wieniawski. 1- Witches’ Dance : Paganini. 90