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1909 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…had been his school, his home, and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the dark cloak of unutterable thoughts. A distant bell chimed the last quarter of the dying year, and the snow which lay fine and crisp on the roadway was being caught up here and there by the puffs of sharp frosty wind that came snake-like through the hedges and the trees, whirling it on spectre-like in…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 241

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…had been his school, his home, and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the dark cloak of unutterable thoughts. A distant bell chimed the last quarter of the dying year, and the snow which lay fine and crisp on the roadway was being caught up here and there by the puffs of sharp frosty wind that came snake-like through the hedges and the trees, whirling it on spectre-like in…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 37

The Stratagem and Other Stories

…ool million,” “a million mil- lion million million million million” and so on: then abruptly: “Fanny’s dog’s dead.” I cannot explain the last sentence to my readers; I may, however, remark that it meant everything to me. I burst into tears. At that moment I caught Arthur's thought, “You ought to be busy with the note-book, not crying.” I resolutely dried my eyes, took courage, and began to write. II The doctor came in at this moment and begged me to go and rest. “You are only distressing yourself, Mrs. Blair,” he said; “and needlessly, for he i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 74

The World’s Tragedy

…F EROS. 2I First born ? — I’ll never have another, I’m Yaugh Waugh, Yaugh Waugh. Bow to Me, you lumpy lambkin ! Haw ! Haw ! Haw ! Now at last a wooden thing That will do my business for me. Uck ! Uck ! The morning’s carrion Bubbles in my paunch. I am belching dreadfully. What ? Uck ? Uck ? How strange ! For the windy vomit of me Shapes itself into a sorry And bedraggled pigeon. Birdie, have you got religion ? Yes, he bows most properly. Come then, let us take our counsel How to stop this sad behaviour, This gross impropriety, Irreligion — Uck !…

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1912 · PDF PAGE 25

Household Gods

…ou know my secret. I have given you drink, And you are wise. But hush! to all emotion Save this the pulse and swell of Ocean. For at the last with mouth and fingers wried All must proclaim the triumph of the tide. Crassus. An! still you mock me with your cruel laugh. Autcta. It is your foolish epitaph. Crassus. But this can be no mockery. Heave and sway And curl and thrust—these waves are not at play. Aurera. You feel the ocean breaking on the shoal; But passionless and moveless is its soul. Crassus. Ah! but your soul is in your breath. 28

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1904 · PDF PAGE 85

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

might inflict. And he plunged like a mad horse ! At last the welcome climax, and a perfect deluge of kisses bitten hard into his olive neck. And then the luxurious confession with which this story be- gan. Left to himself, Clayton invented incidentally twenty-three quite new curses, called Le W... a lit- tle bitch, kissed the mark of the little bitch’s teeth on his hand, and generally conducted himself as an officer and a gentleman would do, provided he were also a devout Christian. He foresaw trou- ble. It came pretty quickly. Two days afterwa…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 79

Why Jesus Wept

…avement a bedrag- gled female). THE WOMAN. Come home, ducky, won’t you ? THE MAN. O God ! O God ! I cannot bear it any longer. It is the last I have. (He fumbles awhile inside his coat.) THE WOMAN, catching hold of him. Come, stand me a glass of wine, there’s a dear. THE MAN. Ah ! that is well. Can I use this woman, I wonder ?

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1898 · PDF PAGE 42

Songs of the Spirit

… PRIEST SPEAKS. (Boccacio. Day IV. Tale VIII.) 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 ground That summer showers may shed a trembling tear. And summer breezes whisper melodies Of pity. Lay them there, and when the sky Opens a lingering eyelash of deep cloud, And the sea sparkles out from under it To kiss the earth into awakening From the dream-slumbers that its fancies weave— Fancies of starlight on the lucent sea Gleaming from wi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 411

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…The noise he hath sought so long: appears There quest a thirty couple hounds Within its belly as it bounds. Lifting his eyes, he sees at last The beast he seeks: ’tis like an hart. Ever it courseth far and fast. Sir Palamede is sore aghast, 35

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1910 · PDF PAGE 411

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…The noise he hath sought so long: appears There quest a thirty couple hounds Within its belly as it bounds. Lifting his eyes, he sees at last The beast he seeks: ’tis like an hart. Ever it courseth far and fast. Sir Palamede is sore aghast, 35

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1912 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

THE EQUINOX A third is yellow, with Aquarius and Dagger in violet. The last is in the four colours of Malkuth, with Pentacle and Taurus in black. Ring is white, having at the top the Name of the Great Angel P HL? Η U A; below cross-bar are Pentagrams, one enclosing Sol and the other enclosing Luna. The whole space in the ring contains the Rose of 22 Petals bearing the Names of the 22 Keys. In the centre a white circle, and a red cross of four equal arms. About the whole symbol are the words— L.I.F.E. B.I.O,S. V.I.T.A., and the letters— Τ᾽A. P. …

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1912 · PDF PAGE 188

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

THE EQUINOX A third is yellow, with Aquarius and Dagger in violet. The last is in the four colours of Malkuth, with Pentacle and Taurus in black. Ring is white, having at the top the Name of the Great Angel P HL? Η U A; below cross-bar are Pentagrams, one enclosing Sol and the other enclosing Luna. The whole space in the ring contains the Rose of 22 Petals bearing the Names of the 22 Keys. In the centre a white circle, and a red cross of four equal arms. About the whole symbol are the words— L.I.F.E. B.I.O,S. V.I.T.A., and the letters— Τ᾽A. P. …

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1913 · PDF PAGE 179

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

John Presland . Till this creature of the sea At the last became Human , in her misery, Joy and pride and shame . With a word he left her there ; “ Woman that you are , Mystery attracts us men Draws us from afar. Sea -nymph as you were, a thing Intangible , unknown , Like the light the sunbeams fling , Where the spray is blown . Sea -nymph have you ceased to be, Forfeited the whole Of that moonlight poetry Cherished by man 's soul . Still we seek the dim ideal As the moth the star , How for women can we feel That our seekings bar ? " Where the …

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1898 · PDF PAGE 29

Songs of the Spirit

…omb we children came, A little space to flicker as a flame, And then within thy tender arms to fall Tired, fain of nothing but to lie at last Upon thy bosom, and gaze in thine eyes Clear, calm, dispassionate, supremely wise, And pass with thee the gates that must be passed. O Night, on thee is set our only hope, Because our eyes, to tender for the day, Are dazed with sunlight, and poor fingers grope For those far truths that mock our vague en- deavour, Whilst we may find in thee the secrets grey Of all things God would fain have hid for ever. 1…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 225

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…courge, above All shameful deeds, is Lying, from whose tongue Drops Envy, wed with Hatred to sow Strife. These twain are bitter; but the last is Love.

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1901 · PDF PAGE 40

The Soul of Osiris

…iery circle one divine Blossom of rose, as from a poisonous mine Gold comes to gird the palace of a king. Envious I sprang—and found the last rose gone. So in the fiery ring of wedlock, blind, Mad, one may leap, no rose perhaps to find (Or, if no rose, good fortune finds no thorn), But—mark the difference—palpable and plain Rose or no rose, one leaps not out again. I

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1903 · PDF PAGE 63

Alice: An Adultery

…s wave retire. Not so : this trial was the tiniest Man ever knew, confronted afterward With giant fears and passions ;—long to fight And last to yield a Maenad-swelling breast Unto a furious Dionysian horde Drunk not with wine, but with avenging night. 43

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1912 · PDF PAGE 95

Sir Palamedes

…scended, All power in his sublime control, All felt, all thought, all comprehended— “ How is it, then, the quest ” (he saith) “Ts not—at last |!—achieved and ended? Why taste I not the Bounteous Breath, Receive the Goodly Gift of Grace? Now, kind king-eagle (by God’s death !), Restore me to mine ancient place! I am advantaged nothing then!” Then swooped he from the Byss of Space, And set the knight amid the fen. “God!” quoth Sir Palamede, “that I Who have won nine should fail at ten! I set my all upon the die: There is no further trick to try. …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 107

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

…ose described in 5 (a), (b), (c), (d), occur. 9. A note concerning the depth and fullness of the breathing. In ail proper expiration the last possible portion of air should be expelled. In this the muscles of the throat, chest, ribs, and abdomen must be fully employed, and aided by the pressing of the upper arms into the flanks, and of the head into the thorax. In ail proper inspiration the last possible portion of air must be drawn into the lungs. In ail proper holding of the breath, the body must remain absolutely still. Ten minutes of such p…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 226

The Winged Beetle

…h, “ Which is the sweetest ? ” O my soul ! Thus didst thou answer the Accurst : “ In her, since all’s divine control, There cannot be or last or first. “ Since all transports me, how shall I Aught of one thing affirm aright ? She dazzles like the morning sky And soothes my spirit like the night. “ Too exquisite the music is That all her lovely shape affords For impotent analysis To mark how every bar accords.

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