The Star in the West

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 .