THE HARLOT
117
The following
is Crowley's
estimate of the greatest
nation on earth :
O England ! England , mighty England falls !
Her days of wealth and majesty are done :
Men trample her for mire !!
and for her eldest daughter , America , he also has but
scant praise ,
Thou heart of coin beneath
a brazen breast !
Rotten republic , prostitute of gain !?
Wealth
and luxury
are
her curse , as they are
every
where else :
The politician and the millionaire
Regain maternal dung.3
Nevertheless in a patriotic
poem
entitled
“ An Appeal
to the
American
Republic ,”
he strongly
urges union
between Great Britain
and the United
States .
That friendship and dominion shall be wrought
Out of the womb of thought ,
And
all
the bygone days
be
held
as
things
of
nought
.
Are we not weary
of
the fangéd pen
?
Are we not friends
,
and men
?
Let
us
look frankly face
to
face
—
and quarrel then
!"
Strongly advocating
fraternity
between the two great
nations
,
he
vehemently
deprecates
“
The
hireling
quillmen and the jingo crowd
.”
In
a
poem
called
“
A
Valentine
"
in
"
Mysteries
:
Lyrical
and
Dramatic
"
—though
a
footnote
winks
,
nothing
more
;
be
it
well remembered
!”—
we find
i
Carmen Saeculare
,
vol
.i,
p
.
215
.
3
Ibid
.
2
Ibid
.
vol
.
i,
p
.
217
.
4
An Appeal
to
the American Republic
,
vol
.
i,
p
.
137
.
5
Ibid
.
vol
.
i,
p
.
139
.