The Star in the West

40 THE STAR IN THE WEST Thine be the kingdom ! Thine the power ! The glory triply thine ! Thine, through Eternity's swift hour , Eternity , thy shrine Yea , by the holy lotus -flower , Even mine ! Further on in the same series of poems a sudden whirring sense of madness is produced by introducing the word “ lunatic ” into an otherwise regular line : Silence , deep silence . Not a shudder stirs The vast demesne of unforgetful space , No comet's lunatic rush : no meteor whirs , No star dares breathe . Again , in such lines as : Secure the sacred fastness of the soul , Uniting self to the absolute , the whole ,3 our ears tell us at once that the extra half- step is in tentionally introduced . Whilst in such a line as : And loving servant of my lady and lord , they do not . The “ y " in lady might by some be con sidered an admissible elision with the " and . ” But I myself should not pass it, though in the following I should : Many the spirits broken for one man ; Many the men that perish to create One God the more ; many the weary and wan5 In the last line of the succeeding verse the metre ( I should say) is not unimpeachable : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 205. Ibid . vol . i, p. 209. : Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p. 107. 4 Ibid . vol . i, p. 98. 5 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p. 210.