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…lled with all smoke of incense, and the praise More loud than day’s That swings its barren censer in the sky And asks to die Because the sea will hear no hollow moan Beyond its own, Because the sea that kissed dead Sappho! sings Of strange dark things— Shapes of bright breasts that purple as the sun Grows dark and dun, Of pallid lips more haggard for the kiss Of Salmacis,? Of eager eyes that startle for the fear Too dimly dear Lest there come death, like passion, and fulfil Their dreams of ill! Oh! lift thy forehead to the night’s cool wind ! T…
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…fire hath dispersed them and shattered ! They hesitate, waver, and flee! The tyrant is shaken and scattered, And Ireland is clear to the Sea! Green Erin is free! Hail! Hail to Thee, Lord of us, Horus!! All hail to the warrior name! Thy chariots shall drive them before us, Thy sword sweep them forth as a flame. Rise! Move! and descend! I behold Thee, Heaven cloven of fieriest bars, Armed Light; and they follow and fold Thee, Thine armies of terrible stars. The Powers of Mars ! At the brightness that leapeth before Thee, The heavens bow down at T…
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…, Vlowers of the rolling mountains and the lea, Trees, and innumerable flocks and herds, Wild cattle and bright birds, Tremble above the sea With song more noble, the divinest potion Of poet’s wonder and bard’s melody. Delight, thou Moon, to ARCHAIS, Cold is the kiss of the stars to the sea, The kiss of the earth to the orient grey That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and resurgent and splendid. CIARICLES, Night her bright bow-string has bended ; last flies her arrow unsparing Through the b…
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… OF THE SPIRIT THE STORM. In the storm 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 shad…
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… faith that gives us life, The faith to conquer in the higher strife ; Our single purpose, and sublime intent, With their spilt blood to seal our sacra- ment, Who stand among Light ; Our single purpose, by incarnate might Begotten after travail unto death, To live within the light that quickeneth ; To tread base thoughts as our high thoughts have trod, Deep in the dust, the carrion that was God; Conquer our hatreds as the dawn of love Conquered that fiend whose ruinous throne above Broke lofty spirits once, now falls with Fate, At last through …
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…ered its garments, drew itself apart ; Gaunt limbs appear athwart the coprolite Veil of deep agony, display the heart ; Even as a gloomy sea, Wherein dead fishes be, Poisonous things, nameless ; the eightfold Fear, Misshapen crab and worm, The intolerable sperm, Lewd dragons slime-built. foul mere Crawled, moved, gave tongue, The essential soul of dung That lived and stung ; That spoke: no word that living head may hear ! Stagnant, the 1 Rev. i. 18. Even as a veil imaging Beauty’s eyes Behind, lifted, lets flash the maiden face ; So that dead p…
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…hall celebrate the brave undying morn When the free nations put aside their scorn For friendship, rock no sundering surge may climb, the sea, Flushed with fresh victory, Lands royal, leal, and great, vast, beautiful, and free. Our children’s children shall unsheathe the sword Against the envy of some lyrant power : The leader of your people and our lord Shall join to wrest from slavery abhorred Some other race, a fair storm-ruined flower ! O fair republic, lover and sweet friend, Your loyal hand extend, Let freedom, peace and faith grow stronge…
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TANNHAUSER 227 ‘This were my guerdon: to fade utterly Into the rose-heart of that sanguine vase, And lose my purpose in its silent sea, And lose my life, and find my life, and pass Up to the sea that is as molten glass. I mind me of that old Egyptian, Met where Aurora streamed her rainbow hair, Who called me from the quest. man ! A crown of light scintillant in the air Shone over him: he bade me not despair. An holy ‘* The Blouu of the Osiris !”” was his word : (Meaning the Christ?) ‘‘The life, the tears, the tomb ! ‘¢The Love of Isis is its na…
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…Colleges call their children; Lakeland fades from the sight. Only the sad slow Cam like a sire with age grown heavy Wearily moves to the sea, to quicken to life at last. And tne vesper Blithelier I depart, to a sea of sunnier kind- Ness $ Hours of waiting are past ; I re-quicken to love. ASTRAY IN HER PATHS.! COPENHAGEN, January, '97. I FEEL thee shudder, clinging to my arm, Before the battlements of the salt sea, Black billows tipped with phosphorescent light, Towering from where we stand to yonder shore That is no earthly shore, but guards th…
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…n the name of our God as I name it, ! . 1 Kruger, however, fulfilled his threat to | AMEN! I demand it of ye, drive the English into the sea. Only Jews and | Man’s freedom! Arise and proclaim it, Chinamen have survived the struggle; as the The song of the sea! fox in the contest between the lion and the bear, recorded by Aesop.—A. . Time will show whether Crowley’ S cynicism | S.S. PENNSYLVANIA, is justified, July 4, 1900. Your stripes are the stripes of dishonour; Your stars are cast down from the sky ;
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124 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Your lips’ perfume 3 like lilies on the sea Your white breasts glimmer; let us wait awhile. There is no breeze to drive us down to lee On the cold rocks of yonder icy isle, And your sire’s passion must forget the chase As I forget, the moment that you smile, And sea and sky are brighter for your face— I hear the sound of many oars ; perchance Your father’s, but within this iron place The heavy dragons will not dare advance Where our light vessel barely skimmed the rock : Their anger may grow cool, the while t…
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…cend And draw earth’s globe unto his heart To make an end; The shriek of startled birds; the sobs that tear With sudden terror the sharp sea That slept, and wove its golden hair Most mournfully 5 The rending of the earth at his command Who wields the wrath of heaven, and is dumb ; Hell starts up Is overcome. and before his hand LG. C. Jones, then of Basingstoke, a pro- found mystic. I heard these voices, and beheld afar These dread works wrought at his behest : And on his forehead, lo! a star, And on his breast. And on his feet I knew the sanda…
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…choly, Familiar bird ? thy plumes, beloved melan- I]. THE GATE OF TO LAURA. Misrress, I pray thee, when the wind Exults upon the roaring sea, Come to my bosom, kissed and kind And sleep upon the lips of me! Dream on my breast of quiet days, Kindled of slow absorbing fire ! Sleep, while I pondef on the ways And secret paths of my desire ! Dream, while my restless brain probes deep The mysteries of its magic power, The secrets of forgotten sleep, The birth of knowledge as a flower ! Slow and divine thy gentle breath Wovos my warm throat: my spiri…
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238 TANNHAUSER Who cometh from the ocean as a flower? Who blossometh above the barren sea? Thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower, Thine eyes awakened, lightened, fallen on me? O Goddess, queen, and wife ! O Lady of my life! Who set thy stature as a wood to wave? Whose love begat thy limbs? Whose wave-washed body swims That nurtured thee, and found herselfa grave? ‘But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep! All mortals mourn and weep To see thee, seeing that all love must die Beside thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I…
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… perfect cheek, And kiss them into poppies, and thy mouth Shall lastly close to mine, as in the south We see the sun close fast upon the sea ; So, my own heart, thy mouth must close on me. Art thou awake? Those eyes of wondering love, Sweet as the dawn and softer than the dove, Seek no quick vision—yet they move to me And, slowly, to the child. How still are we! Yes, and a smile betokens that they wake Or dream a waking dream for kisses’ sake ; Yes, I will touch thee, O my low sweet brow ! My wife, thy lips to mine—yes, kiss me now ! IV. THE VO…
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…Of living water on their strand, live through With million flames candescent as the dew, Red flowers too queenly for a mortal name ! The sea is pregnant with green stars; the land, The sky, like lovers stand With kiss half-consciously exchanged, hand fast in hand. O lovers fair and free, the wings of peace Bear this voice onward ; linger as you will By moon-wrought glades, and softly mur- muring seas, Lands white with summer, and the guiet leas ! Linger, and let no word of music thrill Your hearts; young love is all the harp ye need : Your kiss…
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…uel of thy breast ; I am the star of God upon thy brow ; Tam thy queen, enraptured 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 …
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…desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether, Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather. So I am reacly to assume the Cross, Start on my journey with the last word said ; Turn my back resolute on dung and dross, And face the future with no twitch of dread, But dare to converse with the holy dead, And taste the earnest of the church’s bliss. Love, God be with you! He is overhead And watches us, that nothing be amiss— Love! our hearts bleed as one in the last lingering kiss. Good-bye…
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…formed, arise ; and He Looked from the shadow of His throne, The curtain of Eternity; He looked—and saw Himself alone, And on the sombre sea, the primal one, Faint faces, that might not abide ; Flicker, and are fordone. So were they caught within the spacious tide, The sleepy waters that encased the world. Monsters rose up, and turned themselves, and curled Into the deep again. The darkness brooded, and the bitter pain Of chaos twisted the vast limbs of time In horrid rackings: then the spasm came: The Serpent rose, the servant of the slime, In…
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…ultures fall Screaming, to hold their ghastly festival. Master, the sons of Freedom are but few— Yea, but as strong as the storm-smitten sea, Their forehead consecrated with the dew, Their heart made mighty: let my voice decree, My spirit lift their standard : clear and true Bid my trump sound, ‘‘ Let all the earth be free!” With thine own strength and melody made strong, And filled with fire and light of thine own song. Only a boy’s wild songs, a boy’s desire, I bring with reverent hands. The task is ended— The twilight draws on me: the sacred…