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AMBERGRIS 
 
 
 
 
FROM ORPHEUS 
 
Orpheus invokes the Lords of Khem 
 
Unity uttermost showed, 
I adore the might of thy breath, 
Supreme and terrible God 
Who makest the Gods and death 
To tremble before thee :— 
I, I adore thee ! 
 
O Hawk of gold with power enwalled, 
Whose face is like an emerald ; 
Whose crown is indigo as night ; 
Smaragdine snakes about thy brow 
Twine, and the disk of flaming light 
Is on thee, seated in the prow 
Of the Sun’s bark, enthrones above 
With lapis-lazuli for love 
And ruby for enormous force 
Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round 
With leopard’s spell, and golden sound 
Of planets choral in their course ! 
 
O thou self-formulated sire ! 
Self-master of thy dam’s desire ! 
Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light ; 
Thine heart a secret sun of flame ! 
I adore the insuperable might : 
I bow before the unspoken Name. 
 
For I am Yesterday, and I 
To-day, and I to-morrow, born 
Now and again, on high, on high 
Travelling on Dian’s naked horn ! 
I am the Soul that doth create