The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE SHIP distracted and blinded about the Temple, and ultimately sink down among the rubble in the south. [yuLta and Joanna have let go the doors at once. These spring back and leave the stage lighted only by the single candle of the high priest. A voice from the shrine. Avenge the rape ! Let none escape! A voice from the extreme west behind the audience. The heavens have let loose the fountains Of flood upon the mountains! juLian [4¢ wharf). Ho, Nu! Ho, Nu! Let no man leave the quay Without the tokens of the true degree ! nu [Below]. I hear and I obey. What cargo for to-day? Chorus. There is no gold upon the earth To pay an hundredth of its worth. There is no treasure of sapphire, No hidden ruby to compare ; No diamond hath illustrious fire Beside the burden that we bear ; Nor where the waves of ocean whirl Hath any cavern such a pearl. Not heaven in all its happiest hours Hath such a gracious gift as ours. In it all principles inhere; To it all elements conspire ; From it all energies revere Of it the inscrutable desire! x E 65