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1913 · PDF PAGE 186

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…Yea! let my songs of thy fame Be as flame, That shall enhance, maybe, The liberty Of one.— If one alone shall say : “It is not dead, the day, Not utterly dead while one man sings, Having been brushed by the morning’s wings,” It shall suffice For him ; and as for thee, Though the age be as ice, In one heart thou hast blossomed ; one was free To sing these things, These things. For ever more the light shall fade from him, His eyes shall wax more dim, His ear more dull. And so the wonderful world less beautiful

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1913 · PDF PAGE 186

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…Yea! let my songs of thy fame Be as flame, That shall enhance, maybe, The liberty Of one.— If one alone shall say : “It is not dead, the day, Not utterly dead while one man sings, Having been brushed by the morning’s wings,” It shall suffice For him ; and as for thee, Though the age be as ice, In one heart thou hast blossomed ; one was free To sing these things, These things. For ever more the light shall fade from him, His eyes shall wax more dim, His ear more dull. And so the wonderful world less beautiful

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1929 · PDF PAGE 511

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

511 A single day was sufficient for this part of the initiation. At the dawn of the ninth day all had been arranged. The Monkey went to England to wind up certain of her affairs and the Owl had no string on me. I was thus able to undertake a Great Magical Retirement in June. For this purpose I went to live in a cottage on the shores of Lake Pasquaney in New Hampshire. My initiation now took on a more strictly magical character. I was able to enter into direct communication with the realities of existence instead of conducting them by means of s…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 130

Orpheus

…e to throne, From nuptial banquet to the bed of flowers! Rather forget the near catastrophe, And turn my music toward Eurydice, Awake in day-dream all the ancient days, When love first blossomed on the springing tree ! Let me recall the days beyond regret, And tune my lyre to love, sharpen and set The strings again to the forgotten ways, That I may tread them over, and forget|! 131

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1910 · PDF PAGE 35

The Winged Beetle

…d of a suicide. He had plucked the hazel rod From the rude and goatish god, Even as the curved moon’s waning ray Stolen from the King of Day. He had learnt the elvish sign ; Given the Token of the Nine : Once to rave, and once to revel, Once to bow before the devil, Once to swing the thurible, Once to kiss the goat of hell, Once to dance the aspen spring, Once to croak, and once to sing, Once to oil the savoury thighs Of the witch with sea-green eyes With the unguents magical. Oh the honey and the gall Of that black enchanter’s lips As he croon…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 147

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…Are blinded by the crowding of things dreamed Upon things seen . To us Thought sinks not mistless on the shapes of things , Clear as the day ; but harsh And driven to boldness in the city - night , Straining beyond herself She makes strange dreams of her bewilderment . Of such race are you not ; For you , untripped by unseen snares , in light Can see the simple truth As it has been through centuries in those isles Which neither live nor die But are immortal . The refrains of love And death and tragedy Seem sad by very changelessness . The world…

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1929 · PDF PAGE 100

Moonchild

…she had so worked herself up by what she thought she might see that she also thought she saw it. So be on your guard!" [143] On the last day of the old moon he gave her an idea of the main programme. First, the honeymoon; their normal relations were to endure until there was evidence of the need to emphasize the crucial point of the operation. From that moment she was to see nothing of Cyril save in the ceremonies of invocation; all other relations were to cease. The lover would become the hermit. The magician had calculated the probable moment…

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1901 · PDF PAGE 14

Carmen Saeculare

… Not arming all men in an iron mould. Peaceful be thou : with watching and with prayer. But be not overbold. Fall, Austria ! In the very day and hour That reverend head that holds thee in its awe Shall sink in peace, I see thy rotten power Break as the crumbling ice-floe in the thaw. Destruction shatters thy blood-builded tower. Death has thee in his maw. 12

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1901 · PDF PAGE 69

The Soul of Osiris

…of a wife. Slip to the floor, I must not turn : There is a lion in the way ! The star of morning rise and burn : I seek the dim supernal day ! Sleep there, nor know me gone : sleep there And never wake, although God’s breath Catch thee at midmost of the prayer Of sleep—that so dream turns to death.

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1905 · PDF PAGE 18

Rosa Mundi

…ays of fierce loathing purified, In moonrays of pure longing tried, And gathered after many moons of labour Into the compass of a single day : And wrought into continuous tune, One laughter with one langour for its neighbor, One thought of winter with one word of June, Muddled and mixed in mere dismay, Chiselled with the cunning chisel of despair, Found wanting, well aware Of its own fault, even insistent Thereon ; some fragrance rare Stolen from my lady’s hair Perchance redeeming now and then the distant Fugitive tunes ; — Ah ! Love ! the hour…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 256

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…Mother Troll Under the dawning grey; We left the Hill of the Bloody Bowl Ere ever the sun uprose, But the dead man’s heart till Judgment-day Shall there with the Troll repose. Victor B. NEuBURG.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 256

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…Mother Troll Under the dawning grey; We left the Hill of the Bloody Bowl Ere ever the sun uprose, But the dead man’s heart till Judgment-day Shall there with the Troll repose. Victor B. NEuBURG.

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1912 · PDF PAGE 125

Mortadello

…music could enter into aught but short lyrics. 1. The Classical: Ay, to this end, indeed was marriage first ordained, And to this end to-day is by the Church sustained. 2. Idem, marked by a rime : Listen ; in all good faith, I gladly grant you much, Not prone to scoff, and scathe the scutcheon with a smutch. D

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1913 · PDF PAGE 85

The Book of Lies

…ng oysters with a crony: GOD sent to me the angels DIN and DONI. «A man of spunk,” they urged, ‘‘ would hardly choose To breakfast every day chez Lapérouse.”’ “No!” I replied, ‘She would not do so, BUT Think of his woe if Lapérouse were shut! ‘*T eat these oysters and I drink this wine Solely to drown this misery of mine. ‘*Vet the last height of consolation’s cold: Its pinnacle is—not to be consoled! ‘¢And though I sleep with Jane and Eleanor I feel no better than I did before, ** And Julian only fixes in my mind Even before feels better than …

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1905 · PDF PAGE 58

Collected Works (Vol. I)

POWER 5I Refreshed, encouraged, lightened, Sent on the Way Whose Sun and Star have brightened From dawning into day, I set my face, a flint, Toward where the holy glint Oflamps affords the hint That leads me—where it may. POWER. THE mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command ; The stars that shudder when their king ! Extends his hand, His awful hand to bless, to curse; or moves Toward the dimmest-den In the thick leaves, not known of loves Or nymphs or men ; (Only the sylph’s frail gossamer may wave Their quiet frondage ye…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 14

The Poem

…Y [alarmed]. It might be my father. [Aszde.] And I could have finished to-night—the very last word. Something has been singing in me all day. VAUGHAN. This is a serious matter, John. I will come and speak to him. [Extt. The voices ave heard outside. BRANDON [stout, purple, “ knobbed,” and ill-tempered). Yes, sir. Either I see my son now, or I fetch ina policeman. Kidnapper! Yes, sir, that’s what I call you! Yes, sir! my name zs Brandon. And your damned name is Vaughan, sir! And I'll drag your damned name through a police-court, sir, as soon as …

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1903 · PDF PAGE 38

The Star and the Garter

…arth’s ends Than to my life a finger-nail. ’Twere pain, no doubt, were torn away One, a minute distemperature. I spend a fraction of the day Plying the art of manicure. But always beats the heart: the more I polish, tint, or carve, I ask Strength from the heart’s too generous store To bend my fingers to the task. Cease : I am broken: nought remains. The brain’s electric waves are still ; No blood beats eager in the veins; The mind sinks deathward, and the will. It is no figure of boy’s speech, Lover's enthusiasm, rhyme Magniloquent of bard, to …

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1954 · PDF PAGE 80

Magick Without Tears

…ousand times in so many thousand ways, usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any scientific essay is almost ludicrous. That is all, just now, sister; no more of your cavilling, please; sit down quietly with your 777, and get it by heart! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally , 666

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1905 · PDF PAGE 96

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…shall be ; But we, of mortal bodies born, Laugh lies consoling unto scorn. The God of Israel is strong; His mighty arm hath wrought this day A victory and a triumph-song— And now He breathes upon His clay, And we, who were as idols crowned, Lie dust upon the empty ground. She goes, our sorrow’s sacrifice, Our lamb, our firstling, frail and white, With large sweet love-illumined eyes Into the night, into the night. The throne of night shall be withdrawn ; So moveth she toward the dawn. All peoples and all kings that move By love and sacrifice in…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 38

Jephthah

…hou dost me foul wrong to bring thy sword And torch of rapine in my pleasant land. Between the folk of Ammon and the folk Of Israel this day be God the judge. [Exzt Second Herald. ELEAZAR. Well spoken: but the ear that will not hear Is deafer than the adder none may charm. JEPHTHAH. I know it, and will not await the answer. But dawn shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, pas…

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