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TANNHAUSER 261 That glowed with most internal brilliance ; Borne up, borne up by hands invisible Into a firmament of secret light Manifest, open, permeating me ! Then, then, I cried upon the mystic Word ! (That once begot in me the Venusberg) And lo! that light was darkness—in the , face Of That which gleamed above. And verily My life was borne on the dark stream of death Down whirling aeons, linked abysses, columns Built of essential time. © And lo! the light Shed from Her shoulders whom I dimly saw ; Crowned with twelve stars and horndd as th…
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… that roll o’er earth are riven, The spirit flashes forth from mortal sight, And, flaming through the viewless space, is given A robe of light. As when'the conqueror Christ burst forth of prison, And triumph woke the thunder of the spheres, So brake the soul, as newly re-arisen Beyond the years. Far above Space and Time, that earth environ With bands and bars we strive against in vain, Far o’er the world, and all its triple iron And brazen chain, Far from the change that men call life fled higher Into the world immutable of sleep, We see our lo…
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…NNHAUSER Still, I must see his symbol of the Sun, The Winepress, and the Beauty! Puerile And pagan to that old mysterious one, The awful Light and the anointed Vial, The Dawning of the Blood, even as a smile :— Even asa smile on Beauty’s burning cheek— Ha! Inacircle? As this journey is? How vain is man’s imagining and weak ! Begod! my lady, and my lady’s kiss? Back swing we to the pitiful abyss, Liken God’s being to the life of man. So reason staggers. Angels, answer me ! Ye who have watched the far unfolding plan— How is time shorter than eter…
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…steps ! Est [2 covr/dor). Did you call, Percy? you were in pain, I heard a cry as if PERCY, Esme, I will come and talk to you in the moonlight. IT want to say something that I couldn’t say before, because my heart choked me. oSME. Come out, Percy, the moon is so white, looking out of the black sky. The sky is quite black near the moon; only far down where there are no more bright stars it is a deep, deep blue. It is bluer and deeper than the sea, PERCY. It is like your eyes. [Comes oud into corridor.) Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as your …
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…ound me? Hein! their pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Avé Maria ! VENUS. Mercy! Mercy, God! [ Zhunder rolls in the lightning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and TANNHAUSER finds himself in a cross-way of the forest, where is a Crucifix. eis kneeling at the foot, amazed, as one awakening from a dream, orfrom aviston of mysterious power. "TANNHAUSER. I am escapéd as a little bird Out of the fowler’s net. I thank Thee, God! For in the pit of horror, and the clay Of death I cried, and Thou hast holpen me, Set me upon a r…
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…a musical sound. Gleam in the world of the dark, where the chained ones shall tremble and flee ! Gleam in the skies of the dusk, for the Light of the Dawn is in me! Light on the forehead, and life in the nostrils,: and love in the breast, Shine, O thou Star of the Dawning, thou Sun of the Radiant Crest ! Shine, O shine! Flame through the sky im the. strength of the chariot-wheels of the Sun ! Flame, ye young fingers of light, on the West of the morning that run! Flame, O thou Meteor Car, for my fire is exalted in thee ! Lighten the darkness and…
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…m that divides the wild night from the passionate kiss of the morn- ing Stands there a tower by the sea un- shaken by wave and by wind ; Lightning assails, and the sea breaks-vain on the battlements, scorning Even to fling back the foam shattered before and behind ; Save for one window its height rears up unbroken and blind. tere may a man gaze out to the night by the stars of it stricken, Out to the blind black air that the lightning divides, and is dumb; Ifere, and look back in the tower’ where pallid shades murmur and quicken : Low laughs le…
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…cones of shapeless sleep And infinite dreams, and stars that roam, And comets moving through the deep Unfathomable skies, Darker for moonlight, and the glow-worm eyes Of dusky women that were stars, And paler curves of the immutable bars That line the universe with light, Great eagle-flights of mystic moons That dip, while the dull midnight swoons About the skirts of 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, Abo…
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THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 177 THE MAY QUEEN. (OLD STYLE.) IT is summer and sun on the sea, The twilight is drawn to the world : We linger and laugh on the lea, The light of my spirit with me, Sharp limbs in close agony curled. The noise of the music of sleep, The breath of the wings of the night, The song of the magical deep, The sighs of the spirits that weep, Make murmur to tune our delight. Slow feet are our measures that move 3 Swift songs are more soft than the breeze ; Our mouths are made mute for our love ; Our eyes are made soft as the d…
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… and my soul is with the dead ; Yet am I not unaware of the splendour of the height, Yet am I lapped in the glory of the Sun of Life and Light :— Even so my heart looks out from the harbour of God’s breast, Out from the shining stars where it entered into rest— Once more it seeks in memory for reverence, not regret, ; And it loves you still, my sisters! as God shall not forget. It is ill to blaspheme the silence with a wicked whispered thought— How still they were, those nights ! when this web of things was wrought ! How still, how terrible! O …
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THE ILOLY PLACE 197 The limitations of this deadly night That folds me for the sign of death and sin—- O Light ! descend! My feet move vaguely on In this amazing darkness, in the gloom That I can touch with trembling sense. There shone Once, in my misty memory, in the womb Of some unformulated thought, the fame And smoke of mighty pillars ; yet my mind Is clouded with the horror of this same Path of the wise men: for my soul is blind Yet: and the foemen I have never feared I could not see (if such should cross the way), And therefore Iam strang…
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…orld afresh ! The silence of my heart is one With memory’s insatiate night ; I hardly dare to hope the sun. I seek the darkness, not the light. O Lord Harpocrates,? be still The moveless centre of my will ! My sorrows are more manifold Than His that bore the sins of man. My sins are like the starry fold, My hopes their desolation wan. O Nuit,’ the starry one, arise, And set thy starlight in my skies ! In darkness, in the void abyss, I grope with vain despairing arms. The silence as a serpent is, The rustle of the world alarms. O Horus,® Light i…
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TANNHAUSER 251 I sing not of that other flame of hell Wrapping with torture the delighted brow— But thou! who knowest, and hast known, so well, Sing thou ! [TANNHAUSER, entranced, imagines himself to be stillin Venusberg. TANNHAUSER (aszde). I have been dreaming that [I left this place, Escaped with life, wooed my Elizabeth; My dreams are always strange in Venusberg, [ Taking his harp. Sing thee again, dear lady, of our joy? Listen, then, listen! For some sombre finger, Other than mine, impulses on the string. This tune I knew not! See, the str…
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…eophytes of the Order of the Golden Dawn. 3 The moon, as before, signifies Aspiration to the Highest. My forehead, bathed in her forlorn Light, with her lips is met ; My lips, that murmur in the morn, With lustrous dew are wet. My prayer is mighty with my will ; My purpose as a sword ! Flames through the adamant, to fill The gardens of the Lord With music, that the air be still, Dumb to its mighty chord. I stand above the tides of time And elemental strife ; My figure stands above, sublime, Shadowing the Key of Life,” And the passion of my migh…
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TANNHAUSER 255 The awful grasping at the Infinite, Even as I grapple at the breasts of thee, The seeking and the striving to the light Deep in thine eyes, where Hell flames steadily ? I am not clinging thus Despairing to the body of thy sin For mere delight—Ah, deadly is to us The pleasure wrapping us, and holding in All love, all hate—the miserable way ! Dawns no devouring day Still on the infinite slow tune of limbs Moving in rapture ; sleepy echo swims In the dissolving brain, Love conquering lassitude at last to win Pain out of peace, and p…
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… Out of the Gates of Night ; Angels of Purity and Love Drew to my sound and sight. I heard Them cry that even there He fixed the eternal Light. ‘“‘T think beneath these groans, And laughters madness-born, Tears fell that might dissolve the stones That grind the accurséd corn. Beneath the deep, beneath the deep, may dwell the star of morn ! ‘‘ Therefore, O God, I pray Redemption for the folk That dread the scourging light of day, That bear the midnight yoke. The Chaos was no less than this—and there the light awoke.” ‘©O Dog of Evil, yea! Thou h…
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…he memorable pean, Storm-throated, mouthed as the cave-roll- ing sea ; I lift the cup : deep draughts of blue Lethean ! My wine to me. O Light of day, O torch O lamentable season of Apollo, When swoops his glory to the golden wave ! As all his children, so their lord shall follow ! The flower he slew, the maiden he would save, As Itylus,? light woven, tuned! Oh swallow, Bewail their grave! The gracious breast of Artemis may light me_ To men—yet loved I ever Artemis? Surely the vine-song and the dance delight me, The sea-blue bowers where Aphrod…
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…raptured and possessed, Hide thee, sweet river; welcome to the sea, Ocean of love that shall encompass thee ! Life, death, love, hatred, light, darkness, return to me— To me! [TANNHAUSER perceives that he ts in the palace of a Great Queen. Rise, rise, my knight! My king! My love, arise ! See the grave avenues of Paradise, The dewy larches bending at my breath, Portentous cedars prophesying death! ¢ See the long vistas and the dancing sea, The measured motion of fecundity ! Bright winds set swaying the sofi-sounding flowers (Here flowers have mu…
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…rrection fragrance, to disperse Men’s folly and their fears. The contemplation of those awful eyes, The flaming void, the godhead of the light, The abyss of these unfathomable skies, Exhaust my being ; I desire the night. Lo! I have written all the destinies Thy spirit bade me write. The noise of rushing water! And the sound Of tenfold thunder! Mighty a flame of fire Roars downward: asa maiden from a swound My spirit answers to its own desire. My feet are firm again upon the ground— Vea! but my head is higher. My face is shining with the fire o…
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…the Dawn, I say to thee, arise !” Through the ancestral shame and feudal gloom, Through medieval blackness rung thy peean : Let there be light !—the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean. Let there be light ! and there was light : the womb Of arth resounded, and the empyréan Roared : and the thunder of the seas averred The presence of thy recreating word. The stone rolls back : the charioted night, Stricken, swings backwards on her broken pinions : Faith sickens, drunken tyranny reels, the spite Of monarchs, ruinous of their chai…