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… The very darkness churned itself to hoary And phosphor foam of agony and bliss. The authentic seal of our majestic might Stamped on the light in light the light of light. —— 8) —
A TERZAIN King of myself, I labour to espouse An equal soul. Alas ! how frail I find The golden light within the gilded house. Helpless and passionate, and weak of mind ! Lechers and lepers ! — all as ivy cling, Emasculate the healthy bole they haunt. Eternity is pregnant ; I shall sing Now— by my power — a spirit grave and gaunt Brilliant and selfish, hard and hot, to flaunt Reared like a flame across the lampless west, Until by love or laughter we enchaunt, Compel ye to Kithairon’s thorny crest — Evoe! Iacche ! consummatum est. — XxI —
…psoaring into madness, Down sinking to content, O far and few The stars that follow our lofty pilgrimage Into the abyss of silence and delight Beyond the glamour of the world, the age, The illusions of the light and of the night. Wherefore accept these meteor flames that dance Pale coruscations to our brilliance! Vi The Adept
… opened to the wickedness of them that love Thee not, that by Thy grace our ministrations may be used to bring them out of darkness into Light, by the virtue of our crucified Lord, risen and ascended, Thine only- begotten Son, in Whose name we ask this Thy blessing, For Jesus Christ's sake, Amen. The End
…lling on and on Far beyond Space to some dark-glimmering goal Where never a sun or star hath risen or shone ; Where we shall be the evil light beyond time, Beyond space, beyond thought, supreme in deathless pang : Nor shall a sound tnvade that hall of crime, Only the champing of the insatiate fang Of the undying worm our love, fast wed Unto — no happy end, Behold! I have said. — Th — I] The Alchemist
…ire. I circled it with songs of blessed birds And cradled all in the celestial fire. The stars enfold it ; the eternal sun And moon give light; nor clouds nor rain intrude ; Only the dews of Dionysus run In this intoxicating solitude. I have begemmed its marble flame of spires With jewels from the bitss of God, and set Chryselephantine columns curled like fires Below each misty opal minaret. Is there no window to the east? Behold The eyes of Love, your love, the essential gold!
… Shimmering with clear gold greys as hell resounds With Lola! Lola! Lola! and heaven responds With Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! — swounds All light to clustered dazzling diamonds, And Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! rings Ever and again on these inchaunted ears, And Lola! Lola! Lola! Lola! swings My soul across to those inchaunted spheres Where Lola is God and priest and wafer and wine — O Lola! Lola! mystic maiden o' mine!
…imming over The mouths that never were too wide and fain For lover to hold intercourse with lover. Ah! we were owls of dusk to doubt the light, Bats to mistrust the Wolf's tail’s holy warning: ’’ Sorrow endureth maybe for a night, But joy most surely cometh in the morning ”. Joy, ay! what joy poured straight from the high treasure, The inexhaustible treasure of delight The gods have poured us, pouring overmeasure Because we love with all our life and might. Believe me, it is better than ali prayers To show the gods our love surpasses theirs !
…nk on the icy death-sperm of the Devil. I were a maniac did I contemplate The outward glory and the inward terror, Sick with the hideous light myself create From the dark certainty of gloom and error. For Iam that J am — behold! this’ I’ Hath nothing constant it may measure by.
…he roar of blazing cressets that environ The form that fuses in the perfect pang. A blast of air thorough the molten iron— One scream of light. Creating silence drops Into that silence when creation — stops. -— 112 — XIII So — é finita la commedia. ‘ And if the King lke not the comedy ” (Twine in your hair the fallen gardenia!) ‘“ Why then, belike he likes it not, pardie! " What will the “ King’’ — the British Public — say When they perceive their sorrow was my fun, Their Hecuba my mocking Brinvilliers? * I neither know nor care. What we have d…
… another In all the earth that should not envy aright With plenty cause our short-lived happiness. No life can hold one half-an-hour’s delight Such as we had — this morning! Why then, bless, Biess all that lives and moves and hath its being ! Bless all the Gods, without omitting one! Bless all the company of heaven, agreeing To veil their fires to our stupendous sun! Bless all the lesser glories that excite In the great gladness of our mother light! — 60 ~ XI How purely unexpected was the chance: When things looked blackest, ou asudden,thesun! …
…! Ten bob. — Vulgarity must always go with wickedness, Christ is not only a saving but a refining influence. Wolf’s tail. — The Zodiacal Light, seen before dawn. I suppose that such a mixture of ribaldry, blasphemy, vulgarity, and obscenity, as this series of sonnets has never been known. But worse is to follow! THE BLACK MASS A reference to the Bacchae of Euripides,
…the hermaphrodite ” with all its su- perstition, blasphemy, and obscenity, one were to write “ The Christ-saved sinner, brought into the light”, The arcanum in the adytum. — More classical affectation for “ the secret thing in the holy place ”, THE VAMPIRE Savonarola. — An ascetic Florentine doctor, For a good modern account of vampires and their habits, consult Mr Bram Stoker's Dra- cula. Kriss, — The Malayan dagger.