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THE STAR IN THE WEST
rapid and dazzling succession
till
the ideas engendered
in
our brains
are sporting
in
an
outburst
of
mental
leap
-
frog
.
The following are
a
few
:
"
Fleas kill us
"
with
“
Aeschylus
”
"
Trough hock lees
"
"
Sophocles
"
“
Globule us
Aristobulus
And here
is
a
good
example
:
Let me help Babu Chander
Grish
up
!
As
by
a
posset
of
Hunyadi
Clear mind
!
Was Soudan
of
the Mahdi
Not cleared
by
Kitchener
?
Ah
,
Tchhup
!
Such nonsense for sound truth you dish
up
,
Were
I
magician
,
no
mere cadi
,
Not Samuel's
ghost
you'd make me wish
up
,
Nor Saul's
(
the mighty
son
of
Kish
)
up
,
But Ingersoll's
or
Bradlaugh's
,
pardie
!
By spells and cauldron
stews that squish
up
,
Or purifying
of
the Nadi
,
Till Stradivarius
or
Amati
Shriek
in
my stomach
!
Sarasate
,
Such strains
!
Such music
as
once Sadi
Made Persia ring with
!
I
who fish up
No such from soul may yet cry
:
Vade
Retro Satanas
!
Tom Bond
Bishop
!2
We have mentioned
“
Why Jesus Wept
”
as
one
of
the most irregular
of
Crowley's poems
,
yet
its
irregu
larities
are regularly irregular throughout
,
bearing
a
similar relationship
to
a
true poem like
“
Rosa Mundi
”
|
The Sword
of
Song
,
vol
.
ii,
p
.
145
.
*
Ibid
.
vol
.
ii,
p
.
148. Browning's cacophony
in
“
The Flight
of
the Duchess
"
is
truly extraordinary
:
“
Soul
a
stir
up
”
with
"
streaky
syrup
”
“
Went trickle
'
ventricle
Sperm
oil
“
turmoil
“
Wreathy
hop
"
“
Æthiop
”
“
Matters equine
"
“
French
weak
wine
."
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