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… found a-many ventures on the way ; At last an old Egyptian ; who bestowed The magic word, which, when I had pronounced, Called up thine evil corpse-light in the sky. He riddled me —ah God ! I see it now ! The bloody winepress .'' The ascending sun ? Thy dawning beauty and thine evil bed ! The double meaning ! I had evil thoughts When I pronounced it —else had She Herself, Hathoor or Mary, risen. Misery! Incessant mystery of the search for Truth ! Venus Search out my mystery a little while ! TannhAuser. There is a flush of passion in thine eyes…
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…t by an unit, let me fall ! And, falling, be it from so great a height That I may reach some uttermost Abyss, Inhabit it and reign, most evil one Of all the Horrors there — and in that path Seem, even deluded, to approach once more Infinity. For all the limitless Hath no distinction —evil is no more, And good no more. Elizabeth. But God is absolute Good ! Tannhauser. No ! He is Not ! That negative alone Shadows His shadow to our mortal mind. Elizabeth. That is too deep ; I cannot fathom you. 128
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…hope grows desperate ; And Heaven bridges the great gulf of Hell. Thy life is met with mine, Transmuted, grown divine. Even in this, the evil of the world ! What agony is this. The first undying kiss From jewelled eyes and lips in passion curled ? O sister and O serpent and O mate. Strike the red fang of hate Steady and strong, persistent to the heart ! So shall this song be made more terrible With the soul-mastering spell. Choke, stagger, know the Evil, Beauty's counterpart ! Whose long-drawn curse runs venom in my veins ? What dragon spouse c…
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…am, \ Bertram, fA/ the Court of the Landgrave. Heinrich, ' A Shepherd Boy. Pilgrims, Foresters, Courtiers, etc. THE WORLD OF DEMONS. The Evil and Averse Hathoor, called Venus.
1902 · PDF PAGE 88
…ght within myself. Landgrave. Why is such suffering written in dark lines, And painted in the greyness of your hair Tannhauser. I had an evil dream. Landgrave. You saw the Grail .'' Tannhauser. I saw — strange things. Wolfram. For very feebleness Your limbs shake under you. How hither, friend .'* Your horse and arms ? Your squire .■* 86
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…lizabeth. Oh no, I shall not die. Have I not Mary and the angels yet .'' Tannhauser. You are so pure, so pitiful —your word Cannot bring evil. Yes, I promise you ! Elizabeth. Go then the bitter pilgrimage to Rome, Gain absolution for this piteous past From him that owns the twin all-opening keys That bar your infinite on either side. Then ! look with freshness, hope, and fortitude Still to the summit— the ideal God. 131
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…eath and delusion—ay, corruption's self, Wickedness sliming into impotence. Pleasure in putrefaction. But, in sleep, I will put off that evil as a clout Cast by a beggar. Venus. And the sore is left. Tannhauser. Oh, but this body, very consciousness ! I banish both. I cross the crimson wall — My spirit shall reach up to and attain That other. Venus. So Persephone must hold Thy life divided in Her dark domain. Tannhauser. Already I have tasted once of this In its own lesser way. Ten years ago I loved a maiden called Elizabeth. A child she was, s…
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… we may watch each other as you sing ; Feel how it overmasters and o'erwhelms, The growing pang of hunger for a kiss ! TannhAuser. Brood evil, then, in your amazing eyes, That I may see the serpent grow in you ; As I were just the bird upon the bough— So let the twittering grow faint and still. And let me fall, fall into the abyss. Your arms—a culminating ecstasy, H 57
1902 · PDF PAGE 113
…tature, its appalling shape. In giant horror the clouds rolling drape Earth, like a plumed pall upon an hearse. Till God looms up, half devil and half ape. Heaven exulting in the hateful rape ; And still the strong curse rolls Over accursed and immortal souls, Covering the corners of the universe Without escape. This is the evil destiny of man : The desperate plan Made by the Ancient One, to keep His power. Limits He set, made space unsearchable Yet bounded, made time endless to transcend Man's thought to comprehend : Builded the Tower Of life,…
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The evil, and the barren, and the vile, In God's undying smile ! Stoop not, O stoop not, to yon splendid world, Yon darkly-splendid, airless, void, inane, Blind confines in stupendous horror curled, The sleepless place of Terror and distress. Luring damned souls with lying loveliness, The Habitation and the House of Pain. For that is their abode, the Wretched Ones, Of all unhappiness the sons ! And when, invoking often, thou shalt see That formless Fire ; when all the earth is shaken, The stars abide not, and the moon is gone, All Time crushed …
1902 · PDF PAGE 120
…and avenues of sleep, And of their wonder bring No ultimation from the halls of night, The slippery staircase, and the Fatal Throne, The Evil House, the Fugitive of Light, The great Unluminous, the Formless One! Stoop not ! Beneath, a precipice is set. The Seven Steps. Stoop not, forget Never the splendid Image, and the realm Where lightnings overwhelm iiS
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…o enchant, to seal the entrancing breath. I fall ! Stop ! Spare me !—Slay me ! [ Tannhduser enters into an ecstasy. This is death. [ The evil and averse Hathoor, or Vemcs, who hath arisen in the place of the Great Goddess, lifteth tip her voice and chanteth :— Venus. I sis am I, and from my life are fed All showers and suns, all moons that wax and wane, All stars and streams, the living and the dead. The mystery of pleasure and of pain. 27
1902 · PDF PAGE 41
… dream With subtle shuddering of joy, —and that Keener delight, a sense of deadly fear ! This secret : Thou art darkness in Thyself, And evil wrapped in light, and ugliness Vested in beauty ! Therefore is my love No petty passion like these country-folk's : No fertile glory (as the Love of God) : But vast and barren as the winter sea, Holding I know not what enormous soul In its salt bitter bosom, underneath The iron waters and the serpent foam ; Below, where sight and sound are set no more, But only the intolerable weight Of its own gloomy sel…
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…eastern sky, steps out the single One, Hathoor and Aphrodite —whom I mock ! I may not follow in the dimness— I Chained unto matter by my evil will, Delight of death and carnal life. But see ! He stirs, as one beholding in a dream Some deadly serpent or foul basilisk Sunning its scales, called kingly, in the mire. Strike, O my lover ! I will drag thee down Into mine own unending pain and hate To be one devil more upon the earth. — Come ! ye my serpents, wrap his bosom round With your entangling leprosy ! And me, Let me assume the beloved limber …