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…and bleak ravines Unto these weary and untrodden regions Where man lies penned among his Might-have-beens. Keep us in safety, Lord, What time the King-Ghost is abroad ! The King-Ghost from his grey malefic slumbers Awakes the malice of his bloodless brain. He marshals the innumerable numbers Of shrieking shapes on the sepulchral plain. Keep us, for Jesus sake, What time the King-Ghost is awake ! The King-Ghost wears a crown of hopes forgotten ; Dead loves are woven in his ghastly robe ; Bewildered wills and faiths grown old and rotten And deed…
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16 AMBERGRIS What boots the weariness of olden time Now, when old age, a tempest-fury, lowers ? Up to high God beyond the weary land The days drift mournfully ; His hoary hand Gathers them. Is it so ? My Foolish rime Dreams they are links upon an endless band. The planets draw in endless orbits round The sun ; itself revolves in the profound Black wells of space ; the comets mystic track By the strong rule of a closed curve is bound. Why not with time ? To-morrow we may see The circle endedif to-morrow be And gaze on chaos, and a week bring …
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54 AMBERGRIS FROM TANNHÄUSER Tannhäusers Song In the Beginning God began And saw the Night of Time begin ; Chaos, a speck ; and space, a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, And Darkness on the Deep of Time. Murmurous voices call and climb ; Faces, half-formed, arise ; and He Looked from the shadow of His throne, The curtain of Eternity ; He lookedand 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 t…
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…un. He shows me, in a mocking glass, their features, The twin fiends Might-have-been and Should-have-done. Keep us, by Jesus ruth, What time the King-Ghost grins the truth ! The King-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature ; For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by enduring nature, The twin gods Thus-will-I and May-be-yet. God, keep us most from ill, What time the King-Ghost grips the will ! Silver and rose and gold what flame resurges ? What living light pours forth in emerald waves ? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous…
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… Her secret wonders grow and glow, limned in the luminous patine. Worship, the sculptors, clean forgot in worship of her body lithe And time forgotten with his scythe, and thought, the Witenagemot, Confused in rapture : peace is culled a flower from the arboreal root, The vision dulled, the singer mute, shattered the lute, the song annulled.
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… Unutterable Light. Steady of purpose, girt with Truth, I pass, in my eternal youth, And watch the centuries wax and wane : Untouched by Times corroding tooth, Silent, immortal, unprofane ! My empire changes not with time. Mens kingdoms caldent as a rime Move me as waves that rise and fall. They are the parts, that crash or climb ; I only comprehend the All.
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…my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling for one star-wink thy bright face ! Did we leave then, once cognisant, Time for some Fear to implant His poison ? Did we hesitate ? Leave but one little chance to Fate ? For one swift second did we wait ? There is no need to answer : God is God, A jealous God and evil ; with His rod He smiteth fair and foul, and with His sword Divideth tiniest atoms of intangible time, That men may know He is the Lord. Then, with that sharp division, Did He divide our wit sublime ? Our knowledge …
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…s silver feet, Have him give ear if I say Master. Yea ! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! He passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Timethe intense sublime Master of all philosophy and play, Lord of all love and music and sweet rime.
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… impassive shrine, The seat of Heavens archipelagoes ; Yet lighted not the glory whence it came, Nor shone upon the surface of the sea. Time, and the Great One, and the Nameless Name, Held in their grip the child, Eternity. Silence and Darkness in their womb withheld That spiritual fire, and brooded still : Nature and Time, their soleness undispelled, Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this …
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…l the steep Pathways of heaven gleam with loftier fires Than earths desires. So shall thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time, And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God !
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…go. Her stature waves, as if a flower Forgot the evening breeze, But heard the charioted hour Sweep from the father seas, And kept sweet time within her bower, And hushed mild melodies. So grave and delicate and tall Shall laughter never sweep Like a moss-guarded waterfall Across her ivory sleep ? A tender laugh most musical ? A sigh serenely deep ? She laughs in wordless swift desire A soft Thalassian tune ; Her eyelids glimmer with the fire That animates the moon :
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…ugh 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 mighty rime Divides me as a knife. For secret symbols on my brow, And secret thoughts within, Compel eternity to Now, Draw the Infinite within.
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…k to night ; The white and black are woven in gray, Faint sleep of silken light. A strange soft light about me shed Devours the sense of time : Hovers about my sleepy head Some sweet persistent rime. Beneath my breast my love may hear Deep murmur of the billows O gather me to thee, my dear, On soft forgetful pillows ! O gather me in arms of love As maidens plucking posies,
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AMBERGRIS 11 FROM JEPHTHAH Chorus of Maidens O the time of dule and teen ! O the dove the hawk has snared ! Would to God we had not been, We, who see our maiden queen, Love has slain whom hate had spared. Sorrow for our sister sways All our maiden bosoms bared To the dying vesper rays, Where the sun below the bays Of the West is stooping ; All our hearts together drooping, Flowers the ocean bears. All the garb that gladness wears To a rent uncouth attire Changed with cares ; Happy songs our love had made Ere the sun had sunk his fire, In the mo…
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…n lights grow tender, and the hard sounds hush and cease. In the wheel of heaven revolving, mysteries of death and birth, In the womb of time dissolving, shape anew a heaven and earth Ever changing, ever growing, ever dwindling, ever dear, Ever worth the passion glowing to distil a doubtful tear. These are with me, these are of me, these approve me, these obey, Choose me, move me, fear me, love me, master of the night and day. These are real, these illusion : I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirits shadow- v…
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…egotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains of ungathered fire, The mist counterpoise of time, Dim winds of ocean and sublime Pyramids of forgotten foam Whirling, vague 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…
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…Reft of their joys and fears, Pass like pale faces, leave the life of man Untroubled of their destinies, Leave him forgotten of life and time, immortal, calm and wise.
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…e other takes away. (I, the mere rimer, she, the queen of rime, As sweeps her sickle in the falling wheat, Her bodys sleek intoxicating time, The music of the motion of her feet !) I swoon in that imperial embrace Lay we asleep till evening, or dead ? I knew not, but the wonder of her face Grew as the dawn and never satiated. She knew not in her strong imperial soul How hopeless was the slavery of life, How by the part man learns to love the whole, How each mans mistress calls herself a wife. I tired not of the tigress limbs and lips Only, …
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…way ! 15. Let there then be obscurity in this ! There is an after rapture in the kiss. The fire, flesh, perfume, music that outpaced All time, fly off ; they are subtle : there abides A secret and most maiden taste ; Salt, as of the invisible tides Of the molten sea of gold Men may at times behold In the rayless scarab of the sinking sun ; And out of that is won Hardly, with labour and pain that are as pleasure, The first flower of the garden, the stored treasure That lies at the hearts heart of eternity. This treasure is for thee. 16. O ! but…
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… have seen the eternal Gods Sit, star-wed, in old Egypt by the Nile ; The same calm pose, the inscrutable, wan smile On every lip alike. Time hath not had his will to strike At them ; they abide, they pass through all. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, we know ; let, then, the writing go ! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love.