The Star in the West

THE LOOKING -GLASS 41 Lower , an ocean of flowers , Trees that are warmer and leafier , Starrier , sunnier hours Spurning the strain of all grief here , Bringing a quiet delight to us , beyond our belief , here ." Whilst in the next three cases I consider it distinctly faulty : I see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of unity Toward the calm centre of the sea .? Where larkspur and cornflower Are blue with sunlight's hour ,3 Ring out your frosty peal , and smite Loud fingers on the harp , and touch Lutes , and clear psalteries musical , And all stringed instruments , to indite 4 The first two of the above are quoted from poems published in 1898 , and the last from those published a year later . I will not say that they are the only im perfections to be found throughout these works , but I will say that there are very few others . And con sidering that Aleister Crowley has written about one hundred thousand lines in the space of ten years , or half the quantity produced by Robert Browning in fifty - six , the fewness of imperfections in his work is truly remarkable . Let us now pass from what I may call the Poetic Iconomachy to the Poetic Iconolatry of these poems ; 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 125 . 2 Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 31 . Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 103 . 4 Jephthah , vol . i, p . 74 . 3