The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE EQUINOX Chorus (Without). As it was spoken of the earth, And as the ocean witnesseth, That which the winter brought to birth Finds in the spring its death. Now that the word is come to pass That bone is dust and flesh is grass, Let us mix our acclamations Ofjubilance and lamentations! Are not good and evil one Before the challenge of the sun? Shall necessity relax The brazen fury of her features, And her steel scimitar turn to wax For the complaining of her creatures? The Lord is slain; let us lament The Word made void, the Work in vain. Fulfilling their obscure event, Let us rejoice ; the Lord is slain. zuLv. [To the warders]. Take down the body. [JULIAN and Jovian put out their candles and come forward and unloose joun, laying him between their columns. JULIAN covers him with a cloth, and jovian throws a sprig of acacia upon it. (To the women) Open us the shrine! Jutta. The secret is not yours or mine! [Ske and Joanna pull open the doors of the Vesica. A blaze of light sends the three ruffians reeling forth. They fly 64