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…out till the frame collapse Like an old wineskin! AUTONOE. So the sooner sup Among the stars ! AGAVE. The swift, swift stars! MlENADS. 0 night! Night, night, fall deep and sure! AUTONOE. Fall soft and sweet! AGAVE. Moaning for love the woods lie. AUTONOE. Sad the land Lies thirsty for our kisses. MAENADS. All wild things Yearn towards the kiss that ends in blood. AGAVE, Blood! Blood | Bring wine! Ha! Bromius, Bromius! M/ENADS Come, sweet God, Come forth and lie with us!
1911 · PDF PAGE 90
THE EQUINOX little one, star of the night, beautiful young moon over the sand—dunes [He Clasps her in his arms. LAYLAH [tone/255131]. Victory! Ay, victory is sweet. We shall feast to—night. [She shudders. SAID OMAR [seeing that all is not well]. What is it? What is it? LAYLAH. Ι have had evil dreams. SAID OMAR [to his men]. On to the houses! We must feast; we must sleepi [He takes LAYLAH on his sadai/ehem] You must sleep, whisper of the west wind! LAYLAH. I shall have evil dreams. SAID OMAR. No! you shall not sleep to—night, white fairy of Para…
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52 CIRCE HER mouth a rosebud of delight, Low—laughing ’mid the languid curls, Whose kissing cadence seems to cite The rhythmic melody of Night. Her hair a saraband where whirls A wanton witch, whose perfumes smite The shuddering air; a summer night Where summer lightning darts and curls. Her soul a Parian marble shrine, Centred in lily-cups that fold Their carven petals, smooth and cold, Far o’er a lake of frozen wine— Yet deep within whose inmost fold Sleepeth a snake: the crystal brine Of endless sorrow seals his shrine; Wiser than Sin is he,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 220
…web of desire. Subtle as fire He cometh among us. The whole sky globed Is on fire with delight, Delight that hath stung us, The passion of night. Night be our mistress! That tress and this tress
1911 · PDF PAGE 104
…hearta hell. From this hell spring forth fiery scorpions—— Eunuchs 1 Girls I let us be men 1 Take swordsl take spears! Truce or no truce, night or no night, out to the field. Let us slay the dogs as they lie. God, hear me! Make me mightier than Semiramis! Hate and revenge! Battle and death! Το armsl To arms I Out into the night! [During this speech the ennnehs,girls, and slaves, catching her madness, have all armed themselves from the trophies on the wall. They [waþ ant, running and jostling. LAYLAH turns to the Name of God above the throne, and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 301
…rough the storm, through the smoke, Το the mountain of passion Volcanic that woke— By the rage of the mage I invoke, I invoke! By the midnight of madness, The lone-lying sea, The swoon of the moon, Your swoon into me ; The sentinel sadness Of cliff-clinging pine, That night of delight You were mine, you were mine! You were mine, Ο my saint, My maiden, my mate, By the might of the right Of the night of our fate. Though Ι fall, though I faint, Though I char, though I choke, By the hour of our power I invoke, I invoke! Z 123
1911 · PDF PAGE 249
…er Leo, a god has whispered in mine ear: it is folly—folly—folly. LEO. The sun will be obscured in a moment: and no pilgrims can come to.night. ARIES. Νο pilgrims can come to-night. LEO. There will be no more sacrifice. ARIES. There will be no more sacrifice. [SATAN—TYPHON, SCORPIO—APOPI-IIS, am! BESZ 6771'67' silent/y in ῤγσσεπίσπ. The [ig/zl grows maium/wil)! dimmer] ARIEs. Hail, brethren! Ye are come to adore the splen— dour οί the sun? SATAN-TYPHON. We are come to sacrifice. ARIES. What are the offerings? י131252? Dancing. SCORPIO-APOPHIS. Mus…
1911 · PDF PAGE 295
… Of galloping, galloping Love ; And straight to the steady ray Of the Lion-heart Lord I career, Pointing my flaming way With the spasm of night for a spear! Ο moon! O secret sweet! chalcedony clouds of caresses About the flame of our feet, The night of our terrible tresses ! Is it a wonder, then, If the people are mad with blindness, And nothing is stranger to men Than silence, and wisdom, and kindness? Nay! let him fashion an arrow Whose heart is sober and stout ! Let him pierce his God to the marrow! Let the soul of his God flow out! 117
1911 · PDF PAGE 285
…are iron and brass :— So swift they pass And grind us down :—we hold the wondrous light Our scattering sight Yet sees, the one star in a night of woe. We trust, and so Lift up our voices in the dying day Indeed to pray : 0 little hands that are so soft and strong, Lead us along! [5012. GEMINI plays aceom’zngly.* [A fame FR. GEMINI. Brother Virgo, wilt thou not join us who love not Speech? VIRGO. Hail unto Mercury. He killeth Sol at the Close of every Twilight, and hangeth up the sky of Night on the Tree of Heaven, fastened up with the Star—head…
1911 · PDF PAGE 248
…n. ARIES. There will be no more sacrifice to-day. LEO. There will be no more sacrifice to—day. ARIES. The sun is already setting. LEO. The night birds are already abroad. ARIES. It grows very dark. LEO. The path is too Steep and dangerous for any pilgrims to come hither. ARIES. There is no moon to—night. LEO. I think there will be rain. ARIES. Let us close the shrine. LEO. The disk of the sun is not yet quite obscured. ARIES. But no pilgrims can come now. LEO. No pilgrims can come now. But it is the rule of the temple that the shrine is open unto…
1911 · PDF PAGE 300
… In vain thou invokest our Lady of the Moon! TAURUS. Bear the Cup of Libation ! CANCER- 333'333'333- PAN. Must every star that saves the night Gleam fearfully afar, Give no man love, but only light, Or cease to be a star? Nay, there’s no man since time began Through the ages until now, But won the goal of his set soul, A star upon his brow! Oh ! though no star serene as thou Shine in my night forlorn, Come, let me set thee on my brow, And make its darkness morn! PAN. [Rises] Brother Satyr, scourge forth these that profane the sanctuary of our L…
1911 · PDF PAGE 109
…and apply the [prim/e. [To G. M. !2/ 5ί|0}ιπ] My cook is a great knave, you must know. I bade him prepare me a pasty of quails toward to-night, and the varlet swears there are no quails on the market. Now this morning riding I saw quails with these eyes. The air was as thick with them as when the Children of Israel were miraculously fed. G. M. OF ST [. A new miracle if the knave escape. But will not your lordship sup with me to-night? BISHOP. Thanks, good Grand Master. FIRST TORTURER. My lord, I think I heard a sigh. PHYSICIAN. Only a natural m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 88
…e well Where I dwell, It is cool, it is dusk; But the truth Of my youth Is a palace of musk. Truth comes bubbling to my brim ; Light and night are one to Himl In the dark You may mark The slow ooze of my springs, But you know Not the glow Where the soul of me sings. Truth comes bubbling to my brim ; Life and death are one to Him! There is cold In the old Grey gloom of my caves; There is heat In the beat Of my passionate waves. Truth comes bubbling to my brim ; Love and hate are one to Him. [They dance and return to the well. R. and L. are now s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 73
… Now then I had laid aside the pen, and a voice cried : Write! Fear not I Turn not asidel Is it not written that Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning? Sleep therefore in peace and in faith : shall he not watch whose eye hath no eyelid, who to this end is appointed? And my heart answered : Amenl VI Ε 65
1911 · PDF PAGE 275
THE RITE OF MERCURY MERCURY. 22-333—333. [Full light The Speech in the Silence. The Words against the Son of Night. The Voice of Mercury in the Universe in the Presence of the Eternal Gods. The Formulas of Knowledge. The Wisdom of Breath The Radix of Vibration. The Shaking of the Invisible. The Rolling Asunder of the Darkness. The Becoming Visible of Matter. The Piercing of the Coils of the Stooping Dragon. The Breaking Forth of the Light. [All being seated, the FOUR PROBATIONERS rise from among the alher PROBATIONERS and march to the allow] FI…
1911 · PDF PAGE 278
…d wheels that tire. Ο subtle-minded flame of amber gyre, It seems a spark of gold Grown purple, and behold! A flame of gray! Then the dark night-wings glow With iridescent indigo, Shot with some violet ray ; And all the vision flames across the horizon The millionth of no time—and when we say: Hail !—Thou art gone! The Moon is dark beside thy crown ; the Sun Seems a pale image of thy body bare; And for thine hair Flash comets lustrous with the dewfall rare Of tears of that most memorable One, The radiant Queen, the veiléd Paphiani The wings of lig…
1911 · PDF PAGE 156
…OX But Ida Pendragon, pale and fragile as rare porcelain, twisted herself and found no peace. Edgar bent over her, as vigilant as on the night of her first ordeal. In the shadow stood a physician ; at the bedside sat a nurse, and in her arms a Child. “ Brother! ” she said faintly, “ the number of the grade is Three, and I have given myself three times. Once to the brute, once to the man—my man! (her hand pressed his, oh! too feebly !) and now—40 God!“ The tears sprang to his eyes. “ It is for you,” she whispered, “ to understand the child.” She …
1911 · PDF PAGE 215
…aise your voices In the inspired divine delight! Now the sun sets; new the choice is Who rebels or who rejoices, Murmuring to the mystic night. 10! Evoel Circle splendid! Dance, ye maids serene and subtle! Clotho's task is fairly ended. Atropos, thy power is ended ! Ho, Lachesis! ply thy shuttle! Weave the human dance together With the life of rocks and trees ! Let the blue delirious weather Bind all spirits in one tether, Overwhelming ecstasies! Io! Evoe! 1 faint’ I fall, Swoon in purple light; the grape Drowns my spirit in its thrall. Love me…
1911 · PDF PAGE 282
…ky Way. FR. GEMINI. It is so. SOR. GEMINI. Yet, Brother, there is the Sun-God! VIRGO. Is not Mercury the Sun-God, when hidden during the Night, among the souls of the dead? Hail unto Thee, Trismegistus, Hail unto thee! SOR. GEMINI. Hail, 0 Sender of Dreams! BR. GEMINI. Hail, Ο Supporter of Bacchus Infant! MERCURY. Hail, Twins! FIRST PROBATIONER. Thou art indeed the greatest of all Gods, O Mercury! CHORUS. Hail, Mercury. MERCURY. Yet, ye will betray me! Bury me in a nameless grave! I came from God the world to save, I brought it wisdom from abov…
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…e Uprising of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Night l 2. Also at Noon, let him greet the Sun, facing South, giving the sign of his grade. And let him say in a loud vome: Hail unto Thee who art Ahathoor in Thy triumphing, even unto Thee who art Ahathoor in Thy beauty, who travellest over the Heavens in Thy bark at the Mid-course of the Sun. Tahuti standeth in His splendour at the prow, and Ra- Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Mor…