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Page 116 of 1291905 · PDF PAGE 109
…dire, Split and trembied, cracked and thundered, Lit with living flecks of fire. Spake the chief: ‘4 My trusty clansmen, This is not the day of doom ; This is honour to the mighty ; Clansmen, this is Alpin’s tomb.” NYMPSFIELD RECTORY, December 1893. A DESCENT OF TIE JuLy 14, 1896. MOENCIH.! AN island of the mist. White companies Of clouds thronged wondrously against the hills, And in the east. a darkening of the winds That held awhile their breath for very rage, Too wild for aught but vaporous quivering Of melting fleeces, while the sudden sun …
1905 · PDF PAGE 225
…lorified ! O Spirit of Iimitable Light ! O Thou with style and tablet !! Answer me In that dread pomp of Triumph and of Right, The awful day: my witnesses are Ye That I have said in all men’s sound and sight The things that are to be. IN THE HOUR BEFORE REVOLT. ‘““. . , the green paradise which western waves Embosom in their ever-wailing sweep, Talking of freedom to their tongueless caves, Or to the spirits which within them keep A record of the wrongs which, though they sleep, Die not, but dream of retribution.” Adonais {cancelled passage}. WI…
1905 · PDF PAGE 218
…ght, on the West of the morning that run! Flame, O thou Meteor Car, for my fire is exalted in thee ! Lighten the darkness and herald the day- light, and waken the sea! Flame, O flame! Crown Her, O crown Her with stars as with flowers for a virginal gaud ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Light and the fame of the down-rushing Sword ! Crown Her, O crown Her with Love for maiden and mother and wife ! unto Isis! Hail! For She is the Lady of Life ! Isis crowned ! Fail A LITANY. Tue ghosts of abject days flit by ; The bloated goblins of the past ; Dim gh…
1905 · PDF PAGE 90
…h and salamander meet, And gnome and undine swoon for love ! Her feet that flit upon the windy way Twin fawns, the daughters of the rosy day. Behold, the arms of her desire Wave, weave, and wander in the air, Vines life-endued by subtle fire So quick and comely, curving bare. The white diaphanous attire Floats like a spirit pale and fair. The dance is woven of the breeze ; the tune Is like the ocean silvered by the moon. Behold the maidens following ! O every one is like a flower, Or like an ewe lamb of the king That comes from water at the hou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
…t some sympathy with me? That lyre that was myself, my heart’s decree And ruler, subtle at the dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground, I raise it, and its music hath not found One string or snapped or loosened, and the tune Is the old triumph garlanded and crowned ! Folly and hate! Blithe mockery of sorrow ! Shrill me no harsh lies of some sweet to- morrow !1 Soothe me no hateful mysteries of the moon, How one life lends what other lives may borrow ! I hate that foolish counterfoil of g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 318
…words that I used more closely. There is an indication of this in my entry of April 4th: I foolishly and wickedly put off A.'.; work all day; now it is one a.m. of the fifth. By foolish, I mean contrary to my interest and hope in A.'.. By wicked I mean contrary to my will. A.'. goodish; lengthy and reverie-like. Yet my heart is well. I spake it audibly. Before this time I had been haunted by the first of the two terrible doubts which I subsequently described in sections 36 and 38 of Sir Palamedes, but during the abominable "wind draught" of the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 229
…end head, and was silent. But from his heart came a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about tis body; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, yat they might possess it. But our eldest brother V. N. bade all be still ; -nd thus he apportioned the sacred relics…
1919 · PDF PAGE 292
… to manifest a flower. For this reason I wish to put it upon record, that I think that Alexander Harvey is the greatest realist alive to-day. The dull rationalist dribbles of cause and effect, neither perceiving the one, nor understanding the other. Alexander Har- vey has the mystery of Pan. ALEXANDER TABASCO. Beyonp Lire. By James Brancu Cazett. Robert M. McBride & Co. For four years I have been cast away upon a desert island, and I am seriously alarmed at beholding a footprint in the sand. As a matter of fact, the goats have acclimatized me t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 204
…ever feared I could not see (if such should cross the way), And therefore Iam strange: my soul is seared With desolation of the blinding day I have come out from: yes, that fearful light Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, I know it in my soul, despite of this, The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kiss, This horror of great darkness. I am come Into this darkness to attain…
1905 · PDF PAGE 44
…un- born Oarage of Truth to quit this stream of Death!” O vain, O wasted breath ! am Ihave no strength. Upright I kneel, lament- ing The days when Love seemed fair, the bitter years When pain might have found truth, ere un- relenting I shipwrecked Life! O agony of tears! Vain tears! In silence, with abated breath I drift, drift on to Death ! PRIEST SPEAKS. Duy 1V. Vale VET) THE ( Proccdee to. LAY them together for the sake of Love Within a little plot of piteous earth, When life’s last flower is faded in the sun. Lay them together in the tender…
1905 · PDF PAGE 193
…—silence. There they sleep. The desert ‘There, brave and pure, there, true and strong, they stay Bleached in the desert, till the solemn day Of God’s revenge—none knoweth them: they rest Unburied, unremembered, unconfessed. What names of strength, of majesty, had they? What suns are these gone down into the West? ‘Even I myself—my youth within me said : Go, seek this folly ; fear not for the dead, And God is with thine arm! I reached the ridge, And saw the river and the ghastly bridge I told you of. Even then, even there, I fled. Nor knight, no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
…Is and was ever and must be again. There is no death! Ah! that is misery ! For this, Lord Christ, is it that thou wouldst be, Thou yesterday, to-day, and thou to-morrow ? The mystery of this our life is sorrow. LYETERNEL PRINTEMPS. I. THE eternal spring is in the heart of youth. | They are nearest to the secret of the world, These lovers with their lithe white bodies curled Into the rhythm of a dance; the truth Is theirs that feel, not ours that idly see ; Theirs that inhabit, and not ours that flee The intimate touch of love and think to sleut…
1905 · PDF PAGE 47
…ace. O God! O Life! O Death, thou would’st not wear Such evil mask upon thy golden face— O Mary, pity me of thine abounding grace. Those days are dead, and hope no newer birth. I Jeft thy shores, blue stream, at His com- mand Who reared the mountains from the shaken earth ; Who holds the lightning in His holy hand, And binds the stars in adamantine band, And yearns towards the children of His mind. I left their summer and their dewy strand To pass a life of work, alone, unkind, To fight a way toward heaven, mute, deso- late, and blind. The dust…
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
ANIMA LUNAE 39 And all the palace drowsed away The hours that fanned with silken fold ‘The progress of the Lord of Day. Yet, as he slept, a grey Shadow of dream drew near, and stooped And glided through the ranks of slaves, Leaving no shadow where they drooped, No echo in the architraves As silent as the grave’s. That shape vibrated to the tune Of thought lulled low; the stirless swoon Half felt its fellow gather close, Yet stirred not: now the intruder moves, Turns the tune slowlier to grave rows Of palm trees, losing life in loves Less turbid…
1905 · PDF PAGE 82
…rest foe, And cleave his body with a lusty stroke That sets the blood sharp tingling in my arm. Yet tell me if perchance I lay aside One day the harness of cold iron, bind on The lighter reins of roses deftly twined By children loving me, to be a harness To drive me on the road of happiness To the far goal of heaven. Would to God It might be so a little ere I die! CHORUS OF ELDERS. This doubtful word his fuming lips gave forth : A maiden shall be slain for many men. This only of his fury seemed obscure.
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…sycophants (including myself) were revolted when I approached the subject, even from afar. I began Book I. in San Francisco one accursed day of May 1901. I was then a Qabalist, deeply involved in ceremonial magic, with a Pantheon of Egypto-Christian colour, in fact, the mere bouillon of which my ‘‘ Tannhauser ’” was the froth. The idea was to do the ‘‘ biggest thing ever done in lyrics.” I bound myself by an oath to admit no rhyme unless three times repeated ; to average some high percentage of double rhymes—in brief, to perform a gigantic jugg…
1904 · PDF PAGE 96
…nd head, and was silent. But from his heart cam e a subtle voice of tenderest fare- well, so that we knew him well dead. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not , but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his body ; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, that they might possess it. But our elde st brother V. N. bade all be still ; and thus he apportioned the sacred re…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
…tralia, as he states, they were used, and so also in New Zealand and New Guinea and over most of Europe; in Sussex, country boys to this day use them as toys. Again, the Egyptian throwing-stick (p. 67) is not a boomerang at all; it was made of thick rounded wood and will not return when thrown. It is as perfectly distinct from the Australian weapon as the Australian is from the throwing-clubs of Fiji. The double triangle symbol (?) is so common in the Pacific Islands that it is to be found on nearly every club and utensil; in some cases it repr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 360
…tralia, as he states, they were used, and so also in New Zealand and New Guinea and over most of Europe; in Sussex, country boys to this day use them as toys. Again, the Egyptian throwing-stick (p. 67) is not a boomerang at all; it was made of thick rounded wood and will not return when thrown. It is as perfectly distinct from the Australian weapon as the Australian is from the throwing-clubs of Fiji. The double triangle symbol (?) is so common in the Pacific Islands that it is to be found on nearly every club and utensil; in some cases it repr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 108
…t of all That tumult of ox-fury. Suddenly A light sprang in his face ; the great hand shot Forth, and broke in the brass-bound door; the day Passed with him inwards; then the brazen hoofs Beat with a tenfold fury on the stone. But Jason, swiftly turned, evaded these, And chose two oxen from that monstrous herd To whose vast heads he strode, and by the horns Plucked them. Then fire, devouring, sprang at him From furious nostrils: and indignant breath, Fountains of seething smoke, spat forth at him. But with no tremor of aught that seemed like fe…