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1903 · PDF PAGE 22

The Star and the Garter

…nd glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bard’s renown :— Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight : her God Weary, his old eyes sad and dim In his intolerable abode. 20

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1908 · PDF PAGE 63

Amphora

… breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine. Three magians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean, The GOD of stars and seas, And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary’s maiden face. T 56

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1911 · PDF PAGE 77

Hail Mary

…ery glad keen hour ! The rays of praise outglitter and outrun The candid brilliance of the choral sun. Hear us, O Mary, blessed Queen of GOD ! Bless Thou the wreath as Thou hast blessed the rod ! Endow us from Thy star-embattled coast With the perfections of the HOLY GHOST ! Amen. O 70

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1912 · PDF PAGE 40

Household Gods

…now diffused, illumes ‘The endless reaches of eternity With infinite brilliance, with intense perfumes. Autcia. then your lover was some god’s disguise. ADELA. And you have robbed me. Now beware your eyes! [Ste springs at Arscis, who guards herself easily. But in the struggle her robe tears. Autcia. Take care! ADELA. A boy! 43

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1913 · PDF PAGE 233

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…gist, Proved after hall To old Dowbiggin ( Master of Arts and Doctor of Science ) That time and space and matter and motion ( In short , God 's universe ) Were just a machine of one , two , three , Known unto Perkins Revealed to Dowbiggin . While over the court , the naked universe Arched with its laughter of a million suns , And every orb , out of the sea Of that unfathomable night blue , Sang - Gloria in excelsis deo ! While little don Perkins Played double dummy , And old Dowbiggin Slumbered sonorous , 214

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1911 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… to measure force with them! Ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth’s before the Sun, As the earth’s before the sunset, and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool, gain the God by clean endeavour; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. [He lurus and falls dasþing SOL'S feel. All þmsz'mte themselves in adoration. SOR. SCORPIO film/5 her solar?ששחה [SOL in ARIES recites : The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn ; Heaven smiles, and fa…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 238

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… to measure force with them! Ah! these locks flow down, a river, as the earth’s before the Sun, As the earth’s before the sunset, and the God and I are One. I who entered in a Fool, gain the God by clean endeavour; I am shaped as men and women, fair for ever and for ever. [He lurus and falls dasþing SOL'S feel. All þmsz'mte themselves in adoration. SOR. SCORPIO film/5 her solar?ששחה [SOL in ARIES recites : The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn ; Heaven smiles, and fa…

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1904 · PDF PAGE 87

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

[87] wretch ! To tell me about travail and labour and that rubbish-besides, a really nice God would keep his smoking-room jokes to himself another time. And the brute never made love either. I’ll be even with him one day. I do wish this hole wouldn’t itch. Rubbing’s no good-oh ! It’s better when I rub hard. There ! It’s started again now I’ve left off. I’ll rub harder this time. Ah ! Adam ! Adam ! — Ha ! I thought I was with Adam — Oh, how lovely ! ” And she gave a delicious little sigh. “ Pardon this intrusion, Duchess, pray ” said a new voice…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 109

The Vision and the Voice

THE VISION AND THE VOICE the seven breaths of God that move and thrill its excellence. And she hath tired her hair with seven combs, whereupon are written the seven secret names of God that are not known even of the Angels, or of the Archangels, or of the Leader of the armies of the Lord. Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be Thy name for ever, unto whom the Aeons are but the pulsings of thy blood. Tam blind and deaf. My sight and hearing are exhausted. I know only by the sense of touch. And there is a trem- bling from within me. Images kee…

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1903 · PDF PAGE 21

The God-Eater

19 I scent the prey. I sniff the air. The dawn of day Makes Maurya May The Goddess rare. The light of the stars Be hers : go, go, Ye silent folk, Harness your cars ! Brace the yoke ! It is time to Know. Ho! Ho! Desolate deeds ! She bleeds, she bleeds. The golden head Is drooped for aye. She is dead, she is dead. She is God, and I? I am might. I am power. I am light For an hour. I am strong, I grow. Ho! Ho! I taught Criosda The evil runes. _ Mine were the tunes His passion sang.

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1906 · PDF PAGE 53

Gargoyles

…; the goodliest prize were pain. Know that the utmost heaven is void Of aught save star or asteroid! Or, an it please thee, idly dream A God therein, a force supreme, 47

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1909 · PDF PAGE 4

Clouds Without Water

…atter days, when Satan seems visibly loosed upon earth, the words have a special and dreadful significance even for us who —thanks be to God for His un- speakable mercy ! — are washed in the blood of the Lamb and freed from the chains of death — and of hell. Surely this terrible history is a true Sign of the Times. We walk in the last days, and all the

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1910 · PDF PAGE 144

The World’s Tragedy

…e forward. THE HAG Ho ! we will lift the prudish latch. Dear apeling, hold the torches while I catch This monster. So. Dispatch ! MIRIAM God ! let it be a boy. I would enjoy His love. Who hath come forth with such keen pain Owes keener pleasure, going back again. A curse upon that Dove.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 63

Hail Mary

… breast the Child Divine Drank in the starry milk and wine. Three magians Chaldean Have bowed their royal knees Before the Galilean, The GOD of stars and seas, And tasted all the fervent grace That shone from Mary’s maiden face. T 56

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1906 · PDF PAGE 161

Collected Works (Vol. II)

… With wrinkles, meditating how.) Well, but another way remains. Caird's inter- Shall we expound the cosmic plan Heese his By symbolising God and man identification And nature thus? As man contains of it with ohris- Cells, nerves , grey matter in his brains, to be mystical. Each cell a life, self-centred, free His interpreta- Yet self-subordinate to the whole tion false. For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 35

The Star in the West

… apple tree . Join’st thou thy feeble hands in foolish prayer To him thy brain hath moulded and set there In thy brain's heaven ? Such a god replies As thy fears move . So men pray everywhere . God did first work in earth when womankind He chipped from Adam's rib-a thankless task I wot His wisdom has long since repined . When I am dead remember me for this That I bade workers work , and lovers kiss ; Laughed with the Stoic at the dream of pain , And preached with Jesus the evangel - bliss .' Whilst such lines as the following in the second poem…

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1906 · PDF PAGE 140

Collected Works (Vol. II)

134 THE GOD-EATER Did make in very deed: so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma- juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of …

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1904 · PDF PAGE 81

Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden

… lover’s hand, raised it to his lips, bit it hard with sudden mad desire and whispered, in a voice shuddering with un-satiated lust “ Ah God ! Ah God ! I love you now ! ” He slipped through the door and left Andrew Clayton to sweet memories and disquieting thought of the future. For Monty Le W... had never given him his love before. Monty was a dark, languid-eyed boy with jetty hair ; there was about him the indefinable air that sexual per- verts recognize so quickly, a closer union than ma- sonry can boast. In fact, he had not been on board H.…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 192

The Star in the West

THE CUP 185 jowl with such squalor , such poverty , such want . Is there a God ? Could there be a God ? A power of Light compatible with such dismal darkness . Is there a life eternal ? The grim horror of such a possibility grips us by the throat . Is there an eternal Death ? Ah ! Saviour, deliver us from the misery of our lot ; lead us to the realms of eternal Rest , where rich and poor , good and bad , are made one , lost in the depths of the Lethean sea. And what can all this lead us to , this progress through misery ? To the great archetype…

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1898 · PDF PAGE 19

Aceldama

…st move, And all the body be forgotten quite, And the pure soul flame forth, a deathless dove, Where all worlds end ! If thou art worthy God shall greet thee for a friend. 1 9

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