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THE RITES OF ELEUSIS
Twine, and the disk of flaming light
Is on thee, seated in the prow
Of the Sun’s bark, enthroned above
With lapis-Iazuli for love
And ruby for enormous force
Chosen to seat thee, thee girt round
With leopard's pell, and golden sound
Of planets choral in their course!
[He rises.
O thou self-formulated sire!
Self~master of thy dam’s desire !
Thine eyes blaze forth with fiery light;
Thine heart a secret sun of flame!
I adore the insuperable might:
I bow before the unspoken Name.
[He !?₪/:, the” lum: toward altar,
For I am Yesterday, and I
To-day, and Ι to—morrow, born
Now and again, on high, on high
Travelling on Dian’s naked horn
!
I am the Soul that doth create
The Gods, and all the Kin of Breath.
I come from the sequestered state;
My birth is from the House of Death
[He uah/ames fo altar.
Hail l ye twin hawks high pinnacled
That watch upon the universe!
Ye that the bier of God beheld!
That bore it onwards, ministers
Of peace within the House of Wrath,
Servants of him that cometh forth
At dawn with many-coloured lights,
Mounting from underneath the North,
The shrine of the celestial Heights!
[At altar.