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…! France ! rebelled Against the alien, and the golden yoke ;! Because thy justice lives and reigns, un- quelled, Unbribed ;? because thy head above the smoke Soars, eagle! Tribulation hath not felled Thy freedom’s ancient oak ! Because thy freedom hath Therefore, this message of the Gods to thee ! ‘ What banner floats above thy bastions? The oriflamme, the golden fleur-de-lys? The eagle, or the tricolour? Thy sons Choose their own flag, contented to be free, With freemen’s orisons. The mist is gathering on the seer’s sight— I cannot see the fut…
1905 · PDF PAGE 61
…y, and, as a lamp extinct With blood-red tinct, Went out. So lonely in mysterious night A wild, strange light Flickers around the sacred head of man, And bids him scan The scroll of heaven, and see if there be not, Black with no. blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew, This message of good hope, good trust, good fate And good estate : ‘* Work on, hope ever, let your faith be built Of gold ungilt ; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; Your faith wax firmer than a ship at sleep On the grey …
1905 · PDF PAGE 274
…slain and risen. All, Isis, Apophis, Osiris, LAO. All spread Arms as if on a Cross, and say :— The Sign of Osiris slain ! Chief bows his Head to the Left, raises his Right Arm, and lowers his Left, keep- ing the Elbow at right Angles, thus forming the Letter L (also the Swastika). The Sign of the Mourning of Isis. 2nc. With erect Head, raises his Arms to form a V (but really to form the triple Tongue of Flame, the Spirit), and says :— The Sign of Apophis and Typhon.
1905 · PDF PAGE 60
…erfume around is shed ; I am as one of Them who know The secrets of the dead : The sorrows that walk to and fro, The love that hides his head. O living Head ! whose thorns are keen To bruise and pierce and slay ; O Christ ! whose eyes have always been Fixed fast upon the way, Where dim Jerusalem was seen A city cold and grey ! BY THE CAM 53 The flowers of fire that grow beneath And blossom on the Tree Are fed from his despair and death Who sings of land and sea, And all those mountains where thy breath, Jehovah, still must be. The censer swings…
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…s to meet her spouse homeward who hasteneth ; He trims his lamp, and brings The books of many kings To spread their holy wings About his head, and sing to him the secret ways of death. Iie knows, and doth not fear; His will is keen and clear ; Ilis lips are silent to protect the secret mysteries. No tempter spreads his net So that his thoughts forget The glory they have set Before their face, nor loose their hold upon the perfect prize. My hands no longer write: Communion with the night Is built, a bridge of fiery truth across the subtle mind. …
1905 · PDF PAGE 35
… a beok, and a quiet cor- them ; ner... Darkness falls like dewfall about the hill Fresh as Spring, there kisses me on the fore- sides 3 head Night is upon me. Sleep, like a sister. Novi.--With the exception of this epilogue, and one or two of the lyrics, Crowley wished to suppress the whele of | ‘Phe ‘Vale of Archiis.” But it was thought inadvisable to form a precedent of this kind, as the book was regularly published. On the other hand, by adhering to this rule any poem not appearing in this edition may be definitely discarded as spurious.
1905 · PDF PAGE 241
…h.— Come! ye my serpents, wrap his bosom round With your entangling leprosy! And me, Let me assume the belovéd limber shape, The crested head, the jewelled eyes of death, And sinuous sinewy glitter of serpenthood, That I may look once more into his face, And, kissing, kill him! Thus to hold him fast, Drawing his human spirit into mine For strength, for life, for poison! Ah, my God ! These pangs, these torments! See! the sleeper wakes ! Iam triumphant! For he reaches out The sleepy arms, and turns the drowsy head To catch the dew dissolving of m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 140
… to feed upon your shoulders bare, And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair That clothe my body from your head; you win The devil’s bargain; Tam yours to kill, Yours, for one kiss; my spirit for your skin! O bitter love, consuming all my will! O love destroying, that hast drained my life Of all those fountains of dear blood that fll My heart! wife ? Would I content you with one touch divine To flood your spirit with the clinging strife O woman, would I call you Of perfect passionate joy, the joy of wine, The drunk…
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
…ence ; A miserable and distorted sense, Defiant in its hatred of success. Even where love’s banners flame, and flowers bless . The happy head; all faith and hope immense Fly, for possession dwells supreme, intense ; And to possess is only---to possess. : But, as the night draws snailwise to its end, And sleep invades the obstinate desire, And lovers sigh —but not for kisses’ sake— There comes this misery, as half awake I watch the embers of my passion-fire, And sce love dwindled in my—call her friend ! 1 The obscurity of this poem demands ex pl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 42
… ; and Death Came like Sleep’s angel, and I died, And tasted the Lethean breath. There was a voice that cried: sehold, I stand above His head With feet made white with whitest fire, Above His forehead, that is red As blood with His Desire. I knew that Voice was more than God, And echo trembled for its trust : Sleep’s feet, like Death’s, with fire are shod, And Love is likest Lust, So I returned and sought her breast, Our Lady of ten thousand [Pains ; I drank her kisses, and possessed Her pale maternal veins. I said: Drain hard my sudden breath,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 203
…ling goal? These are my passions that my feet must. tread ; This is my sword, the fervour of my soul; This is my Will, the crown upon my head. For see ! the darkness beckons: I have gone, | Before this terrible hour, towards the gloom, | Braved the wild dragon, called the tiger on | With whirling cries of pride, sought out the - tomb Where lurking vampires battened, and my| steel 1 This poem describes the Initiation of the true ‘‘ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”’ in its spiritual aspect. catch breath As if I choked ; some horror creeps betwe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 208
…name. Mine eyes peer deeper in the quivering gloom— What horrors crowd upon the aching sight ! Behold! the phantom! Icy as the tomb, His head of writhing scorpions in the womb Of deadlier terrors: how a charnel-light Gleams on his beet!~ frame! What poison drips Of slime and blood from his disastrous lips ! What oceans of decaying water steam For his vast essence! And a voice rolls forth With miserable fury from that stream Of horror: ‘‘Thou hast called me by the beam Of glory, by the devastating wrath Of thine accurséd godhead:: tell me then M…
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156 THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY CORA. Rest, sunny head! A little while to sleep, And then—perhaps the Mother in a dream May comfort you. A woman’s love is this To have one heart, an undivided love ; But Hers—division in the universe Makes multiple each part. Sweet Madeline, Believe me, She will come to maiden dreams, Bestow Her peace, and so direct the life That is not unto God unconsecrate For being dedicated unto love ! [#xzt MADELINE. Cora remains thinking. I was no bolder twenty years ago ! Time, Time, thou maker and destroyer both, Only in resurr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 139
132 JEZEBEL; AND OTHER TRAGIC POEMS I crept like sleep toward the place That held for me her evil head ; I bent like sin above her face That dying she might kiss me dead. I whispered ‘‘ Jezebel!” She turned, And her deep eyes with hatred burned. ‘* Ah! prophet, come to mock at me And gloat on mine exceeding pain?” ‘“Nay, but to give my soul to thee, And have thee spit at me again !”’ She smiled—I know she smiled—she sighed, Bit my lips through, and drank, and died ! Her murders and her blasphemies, Her whoredoms, God has paid at last; Upon my b…
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…s mock I]Jis entry to their kingdom, and despair. Groans in the blackness, infamous and bare, ~ And hateful shapes and eyes surround his head— O for the magic of those mightier dead To scatter them, and utterly destroy Their likeness, and to penetrate the joy Of yonder places past the realm of fear! Q that some nughty seer Came to avenge, that might deliver him From this grim fight, whose horrid ranks are dim With mist of spuméd blood, whose long chill hour Beats out each second with the ghastly power, Reluctant tillthe morning. Shall they ceas…
1905 · PDF PAGE 105
…I saw myself And her together, as a priest, whose robe Was white and frail, and covered with a cope Of scarlet bound with gold: upon the head A golden crown, wherein a diamond shone ; Within which diamond we beheld our self The higher priest, not clothed, but clothed upon With the white brilliance of high nakedness As with a garment.! Then of our self there came A voice: ‘‘ Ye have attained to That which Is ; Kiss, and the vision is fulfilled.”’> And so Our bodies met, and, meeting, did not touch But interpenetrated in the kiss. This writing is…
1905 · PDF PAGE 113
…terrific nod That spoke the fury of the Christian God, Whose slaves deny, too cowardly to abjure, Their desecrated Moloch. The impure Godhead is powerless, even on the slave, Who once could scar the forehead of the brave, Break love’s heart pitiful, and reach the strong Through stricken children, and a mother’s wrong. Day after darkness, life beyond the tomh ! Manhood reluctant from religion’s womb Leaps, and sweet laughters flash for freedom’s birth That thrills the old bosom of maternal earth. The dawn has broken ; yet the impure fierce fire …
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
…Night : These bowed and shaped themselves and said : “* Tt shall be thus !” And the intolerable luminous Death that is god bent down his head And answered : ‘‘ Thus, immutably, Above all days and deeds, shall be!” And the great Light that is above all gods Lifted his calm brow, spake, and all the seas, And all the air, and all the periods Of seasons and of stars gave ear, and these Vaults of the heaven heard The great white Light that shaped its secrecies Into one holy terrible word, Higher than all words spoken ; for He said : ‘‘ Death is made…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
…ass out beyond the city gate. All day I loitered in the little streets Of black worn houses tottering, like the fate That hangs above my head even now, and meets Prayer and defiance as not hearing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad…
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…ly So dark his soul had grown that never he For shame and sorrow wore the form of man. So to the hut on writhing coils he ran With angry head erect, and passed within Its rotten doorway. Then the thing of Sin That mocked the name of woman fondled him, Stroked his flaf head, his body curved and slim, And from the fire brought milk. He drank it up From the coarse pewter of the borrowed cup And cried: ‘‘Jn eating, swear. JI have vowed to make The gods infernal on their couches quake With fear before I die; I have vowed to live With one aim only; n…