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THE RITES OF ELEUSIS
Ist MA‘ZNAD. Are of us for ever.
Evoe! Evoe!
AUTONOE. Agave! He cometh!
AGAVE. Cry hoI Autonoe!
ALL. ΗοΙ Ho! Evoe, Ho! Iacche! Evoel Evoel
AGAVE.
The white air hummeth
With force of the spirit.
We are heirs
: we inherit.
Our joys are as theirs
;
Weave with your prayers
The joy of a kiss I
Ηο
! for the bliss
Of the cup and the rod.
He cometh
1 0 lover!
O friend and Ο God,
Cover us, cover
Our faces, and hover
Above us, within us
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Daintily shod,
Daintily robed,
His witcheries spin us
A web of desire.
Subtle as fire
He cometh among us.
The whole sky globed
Is on fire with delight,
Delight that hath stung us,
The passion of night.
Night be our mistress!
That tress and this tress