XIV
I‘or me therein shall you erect a statue
Even as you know me with the mystic eyes
Hungrily, hungrily a-gazing at you,
Afeast upon our strange sad ecstasies.
Make me the aching mouth parched-up with blisses
The lips curled back, the breath desiring you,
The whole face fragrant with your full free kisses,
The soul thereof exhaling scented dew
Born in the utmost world where we in truth
Abide like Bacchus with a Bassarid
Drunk with our art, love, beauty, force and youth ;
But place that head upon a pyramid
Of snaky lightnings, lest — but that shall be
Alwaysa secret between you and mie.
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Or, an you will, evoke me as the Sphinx
With lion’s claws, bull’s breast, and eagle’s wings !
You are my riddle, and the answer sinks
Below the deep essential base of things,
Rises above the utmost brim of thought
And bubbles over as impatient song.
Yet ‘ We are one ” is all, and allis naught;
And this one “ one”, and “all”, and “naught "
The whole content of our imagining, [shall throng
The great arcanum in the adytum hid
From men, and though we carve or kiss or sing,
The Sphinx is dumb, and blind the Pyramid.
~~ Now our affairs are ordered perfectly.
Give me your mouth, your mouth, and let us die!
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