The Star in the West

THE LOOKING - GLASS 45 Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate , where the shade of earth is black , Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face ! The glory of the comet -tailed track Blinds all black earth with tears. Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the starry spheres.' The song of “ The Hours,» 2 and “ Spring , also magnificent , as are the Invocation of Hecate ;' the three Judges ,' and the Furies ; the latter of which is one of the most musical lyrics Crowley has as yet written . The Song of Orpheus flashes and flames as we read it : " 3 are The magical task and the labour is ended ; The toils are unwoven , the battle is done ; My lover comes back to my arms , to the splendid Abyss of the air and abode of the sun . The sword be assuaged, and the bow be unbended ! The labour is past, and the victory won . The arrows of song through Hell cease to hurtle. Away to the passionate gardens of Greece , Where the thrush is awake , and the voice of the turtle Is soft in the amorous places of peace , And the tamarisk groves and the olive and myrtle Stir ever with love and content and release . O bountiful bowers and O beautiful gardens ! O isles in the azure Ionian deep ! Ere ripens the sun , ere the spring -wind hardens Your fruits once again ye shall have me to keep. The sleep -god laments, and the love -goddess pardons , When love at the last sinks unweary to sleep .? 1 Orpheus, vol. iii, p . 168 . 3 Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 146 , 147 . s Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 182-187 . Ibid . vol . iii, p . 200 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 145 . 4 Ibid . vol . iii , p . 177 . 6 Ibid . vol . iii, pp . 194-199 .