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…e know them should be enough To glut our misery and our love. VIII. Why must despair to madness drive The myriad fools that fear to die? God’s but a fervid phantom drawn Out of the hasty-ordered hive Of thoughts that battle agony In the melancholy hours of dawn. When vital force at lowest ebbs Anaemic nerves weave frailest webs.
…e figured in this brain of mine. The sails of this life’s argosy are furled; The anchor drops in those abodes divine. Master of self and God, freewill and Fate. [ am alone — at last — to meditate,
HYMN TO PAN The gods withdraw: The great beasts come, Io Pan! Iam borne To death on the horn Of the Unicorn. Iam Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Iam thy mate, Iam thy man, Goat of thy flock, Iam gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; andI rape and I rip andI rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mzenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
THE EARL’S QUEST 49 Arise, O God, and stand, and smite For Ireland’s wrong, for Ireland’s right! Our Lady, stay the pitying tear ! There is no room for pity here ! What pity knew the Saxon e’er? Arise, O God, and slay nor spare, Until full vengeance rightly wrought Bring all their house of wrong to nought ! Scorn, the catastrophe of crime, These be their monuments through time ! And Ireland, green once more and fresh, Draw life from their dissolving flesh! By Saxon carcases renewed, Spring up, O Shamrock virgin-hued ! And in the glory of thy le…
…e drives into exile the child of force. The man of intelligence is submitted to rude tests; he must confirm his conquests by sacrifices. God orders him to immolate his son, that is to say, doubt ought to test dogma, and the intellectual man should be ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of supreme reason. Then God in- tervenes : universal reason yields to the efforts of labour, and shows herself to science; the material side of dogma is alone immolated. . This is the meaning of the ram caught by its horns in a thicket. The history of Abra…
…e drives into exile the child of force. The man of intelligence is submitted to rude tests; he must confirm his conquests by sacrifices. God orders him to immolate his son, that is to say, doubt ought to test dogma, and the intellectual man should be ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of supreme reason. Then God in- tervenes : universal reason yields to the efforts of labour, and shows herself to science; the material side of dogma is alone immolated. . This is the meaning of the ram caught by its horns in a thicket. The history of Abra…
…lls asunder ; The darkness is riven ! Light, O eternal ! Life, O diurnal ! Love, O withdrawn ! Heart of my May, spring Far to Thy dawn ! God of the dayspring ! Sun on the lawn ! Hail to Thy splendour, Holy, I cry ! Mary shall bend her Face from the sky. Subtle and tender— Then I can die ! Tannhauser. The simple love of life and gladness there ! Merely to be, and worship at the heart. How complex, the machinery of me ! Better ? I doubt it. Hark ! he tunes again. n
54 THE PRINCESS OF PANORMITA Now, at the crown of the year, The decadent days of October, I come to thee, God, without fear ; Pious, chaste, and sober, I solemnly sacrifice This first-fruit flower of wine For a vehicle of thy vice As I am Thine to be mine. For five in the year gone by I pray Thee give to me one ; A lover stronger than I, A moon to swallow the sun ! May he be like a lilywhite goat Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for his throat, A scarlet bow for his horns !
THE EQUINOX descended a God-illumined Adept. He fully realized that to admit into his argument the comment of God was to erase all hope of deliverance from the text, and therefore, though he had become The Buddha, nevertheless, in his selflessness he stooped down to the level of the lowest of mankind, and abandoning as dross the stupendous powers he had acquired, helped his fellows to realize the right path by the most universal of all symbols—the woe of the world, the sorrow of mankind. Like the Vedantist, he saw that the crux of the whole tro…
THE EQUINOX descended a God-illumined Adept. He fully realized that to admit into his argument the comment of God was to erase all hope of deliverance from the text, and therefore, though he had become The Buddha, nevertheless, in his selflessness he stooped down to the level of the lowest of mankind, and abandoning as dross the stupendous powers he had acquired, helped his fellows to realize the right path by the most universal of all symbols—the woe of the world, the sorrow of mankind. Like the Vedantist, he saw that the crux of the whole tro…
…he was so fond of in the old days. She was rude enough to both of us yesterday though-so are all the beasts since we ate that apple Lord God made all the fuss about. The serpents as much a gentleman as ever, of course. He was at the same public school as Lord God, he says. Im sure hes got better manners, though ! The old [86]
… for all : I line no brow With wrinkles, meditating how.) Well, but another way remains. Shall we expound the cosmic plan By symbolising God and man And nature thus? As man contains Cells, nerves, grey matter in his brains, Each cell a life, self-centred, free Yet self-subordinate to the whole 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 truth—why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christia…
136 THE STAR IN THE WEST Can you not see ? I am cut off from God ! Loathsome bull -men in their corruption linked Whisper lewd fancies in my ear. Great fish , Monstrous and flat, with vile malignant eyes , And crawling beetles of gigantic strength , Crushed , mangled , moving , are about me . Go ! Go ! do not touch the carcass of myself That is abased , defiled , abominable .' Then Ulric enters , evidently now totally mad ; the fearful power of his Neronic lust has reft asunder the last thread of his sanity ; in his hand he carries a razor , fi…
… the understand ing , and the Ego sloughs its outward empirical skin , we then become mystics ; nevertheless , “ If any man say , I love God , and hateth his brother , he is a liar . For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth , how can he love God whom he seeth not .” So the mystic's work lies here in life , and the greatest and most divine mystics have probably been those whose naïveté of soul was such , that they knew not that they were mystics , and whose illumination has become so brilliant , that they cannot even find expression in t…
…of joy and love ! ALEXANDER Is there nothing but distress In the mystic vision lurking ? IST NYMPH Ah ! but were thy loveliness With the God supremely working ! ALEXANDER Nymph, thy face is like a flower Fairer than the driven foam ! Shining like an honeycomb Is thy body — and thy soul Shoots me to the gilded goal. I shall master yet the hour. SATYRS King of Kings, we bow before Thee ; As our Master we adore Thee.
… white devotion adamant for ever. Enter ADULAH and her Maidens. ADULAH. Fathers of Israel, we are come to you With many maidens praising God, for this The victory of my father. Happy girls! Whose brothers struck to-day for Israel, Whose fathers smote the heathen ; happiest, Ye blushing flowers, beyond your younger spring That bends in you toward summer, faint and fair, Whose lovers bared their swords to-day ; and ye, O reverend heads, most beautiful for gray, The comely crown of age, that doth be- seem Your wise sweet beauty, as the ivy wreathe…
…Ding an sich*—as Germans term it—” We stop him short ; he readjusts his glasses, Turns to his folio—’twill eclipse all precedent, Reveal God’s nature, every dent a blessed dent ! The Donkey : written by an ass, for asses. So, with permission, let us be Orthodox to our finger-ends; What the bulk hold, High Church or Friends, Or Hard-shall Baptists—and we’ll see. I will not now invite attack By proving white a shade of black, Or Christ (as some47 have lately tried) An epileptic mania, Citing some case, “where a dose Of Bromide duly given in time …
…ame is called . O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless ! O shadowy tale ! I am Nature and God : I reign ,I am , alone . None other may abide apart : they perish , Drawn into me , into my being grown . None other bosom is, to bear , to nourish , To be : the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet - bright to cherish My own's life being , that is, and is not other ; For I am God and Nature and thy Mother . I am : the greatest and the least : the sole And separate life of things . The…
… known ; yet curious to say , as Rousseau once said : “ The choice which is opposed to Reason comes to us from Reason . We have made the god of love blind because he has better eyes than we have , and sees things which we cannot perceive . now making the Sublime ridiculous , and like the Bhikkhu can no longer see the “ dainty lady ” but in her place “ a set of bones .” ? Not until we under stand ourselves , shall we understand the world of God , and not until we have replenished the lamp of our soul with love , will it burn up into a brilliant …
…an sich *—as Germans term it—” We stop him short ; he readjusts his glasses, Turns to his folio—'twill eclipse all precedent, 265 Reveal God’s nature, every dent a blessed dent ! The Donkey : written by an ass, for asses. So, with permission, let us be Orthodox to our finger-ends ; What the bulk hold, High Church or Friends, 270 Or Hard-shell Baptists—and we'll see. I will not now invite attack By proving white a shade of black, Or Christ (as some have lately tried) | An epileptic maniac, Citing some cases, “ where a dose Of Bromide duly given …