1909 · CLOSE READING
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I) (1909), PDF p. 113
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THE GARDEN OF JANUS
For now that cosmic chaos of I AM
Bursts like a bubble. Mystical
The night comes down, a soaring wedge of flame
Woven therein
To be a sign to them who yet have never been.
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The universe I measured with my rod.
The blacks were balanced with the whites ;
Satan dropped down even as up soared God ;
Whores prayed and danced with anchorites.
So in my book the even matched the odd:
No word I wrote
Therein, but sealed it with the signet of the goat.
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This also I seal up. Read thou herein
Whose eyes are blind! Thou may’st behold
Within the wheel (that alway seems to spin
All ways) a point of static gold.
Then may’st thou out therewith, and fit it in
That extreme sphere
Whose boundless farness makes it infinitely near.
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