The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

THE RITES OF ELEUSIS And thy smiles before they dwindle Make the cold air fire ; then screen them In those looks, where whoso gazes Faints, entangled in their mazes. Child of Light ! thy limbs are burning Through the vest which seems to hide them ; As the radiant lines of morning Through the clouds, ere they divide them ; And this atmosphere divinest Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinestl Fair are others ; none beholds thee, But thy voice sounds low and tender Like the fairest, for it folds thee From the sight, that liquid splendour, And all feel, yet see thee never, As I feel now, lost forever! Lamp of Earth! where'er thou movest Its dim shapes are clad with brightness, And the souls of whom thou lovest Walk upon the winds with lightness, Till they fail, as I am failing, Dizzy, lost, yet unbewailingl ARIES. Hail unto Thee, O thou that art exalted in thy Strength, that travellest over the Heaven in Thy Bark in the Splendour of noon 1 [ARIES and LEO resume thrones. 68 [A PROBATIONER recites the 12 fold Glorg'flmiion of God from 963.] [Enter SCORPIO-APOPHIS dressed in a filmy white robe, her hair in dz’sora’er.] [ARIES and LEO rise and bow. ARIES. Hail thoul Whence comes’t thou? SCORPIO-APOPHIS. From the House of God. ARIES. What bringest thou as an offering to our Lord ?