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1902 · PDF PAGE 27

Tannhäuser

So easy, I am fearful of mishap. Some fatal argument the God must find That linked us first. The dice are in His lap- Let Him decide in His imperial mind! My choice ; to see entirely —and be blind ! Yet I bethink me of that holy man, (Pagan albeit) my stirrup's wisdom-share : " Learn this from Thothmes the Egyptian. " Use only in thine uttermost despair ! " He whispered me a Word. " Beware ! Beware " Two voices are there in the sullen sea ; " Two functions hath the inevitable fire ; " Earthquake hath earth, and yet fertility : " See to thy purp…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 135

Orpheus

…By dreams deceived and maddened ! It might be—the delusive dance, The shadowy form I saw, Apollo’s misty quivering lance Thrown to elude God’s law ; It might be—doth the maid advance, Evanish, or withdraw? So stung by certainty’s mistrust, Or tranced in dream of sin, Or blinded by some Panic dust, By Dionysian din — Deafened, arose the laughing lust To fling my body in! I stood upon the rock, and cried, And held my body high 136

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1907 · PDF PAGE 37

Rodin in Rime

…urn of the torso for poets to see is hid from the lesser and dull—hidden from me. She squats, and is void and null; I know her not; ' As God is above, but more so, she sits, to blot Intelligence out of my brain, conceit from my ken; And I class myself, idle and vain, with the newspaper men. 21

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1911 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…hat is the gladness of the well To us who pine for citadel, And joyous burg, and Christian feast? But we are vowed to Christ to fight For God, our honour, and our right Against the recreant East.

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1911 · PDF PAGE 78

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…hat is the gladness of the well To us who pine for citadel, And joyous burg, and Christian feast? But we are vowed to Christ to fight For God, our honour, and our right Against the recreant East.

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1913 · PDF PAGE 99

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

…EF GROCER We have rose - candy , we have spikenard , Mastic and terebinth and oil and spice , And such sweet jams meticulously jarred As God 's own Prophet eats in Paradise . THE PRINCIPAL JEWS And we have manuscripts in peacock styles By Ali of Damascus ; we have swords Engraved with storks and apes and crocodiles , And heavy beaten necklaces , for Lords . 80

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1898 · PDF PAGE 46

Jephthah

…leasant as the shaded well That looks through palm leaves to the quiet sky. [ Dies. JEPHTHAH. Thou didst no evil in the slaying him, For God is a consuming fire; high zeal Against idolatry lacks not reward. And now the sun is up: for Israel, march! JARED. Good luck be with your spears ; and homecoming Gladden victorious eyes ere set of sun. [Exeunt Jephthah and Soldiers. Enter Eleazar, Ahinoam, Chorus of Elders. CHORUS. The sun is past meridian. No sound Of trampling hoofs assails th’ unquiet wind, Nor trembles in the pillared echo-places, And …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 103

The World’s Tragedy

…ve in a close cage, And loose the tiger marriage : To the camel of joy be a needle’s eye, And a wolf’s-throat to monogamy. Youth’s lusty god shall turn them sick, While they dote on age’s gilded stick. Beauty shall shiver in the cold While they warm their buttocks at the fire

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1913 · PDF PAGE 104

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

James Elroy Flecker . II. But when I walk in Athens town That swims in dust and sun Perverse , I think of London then Where God 's brave work is done, And with what sweep at Westminster The rayless waters run . I ponder how from Attic seed There grew an English tree, How Byron like his heroes fell , Fighting a country free , And Swinburne took from Shelley 's lips The kiss of Poetry . And while our Poets chanted Pan Back to his pipes and power , Great Verrall , bending at his desk , And searching hour on hour Found out old gardens , where the w…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…IL. B..... »M..... ,andN....! o. The shrine in the gloom? [Gives the S...f aB...of the A...., which i. destroys by theS ...of M..T . the God. L IstheM....0.T..W... o. And the Priest in the Shrine? IL IsthisM...... O.M...! [1. vepeatsS...of M..T. and O. gives S... of Baphomet. 84 O. I. Oo. IL rorOrOnrSO . And the wonder above? The Quintessence of Love. . There are sacraments? Nine. There are music and wine And the delicate dance— . To accomplish? The trance. . And are these three enough? They are servants of Love. . And the sacrifice? I. . And t…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 124

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…IL. B..... »M..... ,andN....! o. The shrine in the gloom? [Gives the S...f aB...of the A...., which i. destroys by theS ...of M..T . the God. L IstheM....0.T..W... o. And the Priest in the Shrine? IL IsthisM...... O.M...! [1. vepeatsS...of M..T. and O. gives S... of Baphomet. 84 O. I. Oo. IL rorOrOnrSO . And the wonder above? The Quintessence of Love. . There are sacraments? Nine. There are music and wine And the delicate dance— . To accomplish? The trance. . And are these three enough? They are servants of Love. . And the sacrifice? I. . And t…

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1917 · PDF PAGE 5

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse

…ad petals of divided light; Tits leaves of the most radiant emerald ; Tes heart of fire like rubies. At the sight Tiifted up my heart to God and called: How shall I pluck this dream of my desire ? And lo! there shaped itself the Cross of EVELYN UNDERHILL (MRS. STUART MOORE) bats

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1961 · PDF PAGE 84

Liber Aleph

…N, whereby He made Men to understand their secret Nature, that is, their Unity with their true Selves, or, as they then phrased it, with God. And He discovered unto them the Way of this Attainment, and its Relation with the Formula of INRI. Also by His Mystery of Number He made plain the Path for His Successor to declare the Nature of the whole Universe in its Form and in its Structure, as it were an Analysis thereof, doing for Matter what the Buddha was decreed to do for Mind. t

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1898 · PDF PAGE 57

Songs of the Spirit

… goal I seek, Stretching both hands toward a loving father, And struggling toward some barren voiceless peak With feet made stedfast, if God made them weak ; So, on the journey, in the hottest fight I would be found by Death, whose palace bleak 47

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1899 · PDF PAGE 132

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…liness, and I know— then! But now—I only write mechanically. I force myself. To-day I tore up all I wrote last night. ESME. | Let us ask God to send you the angel, shall we? [They kneel, with arms intertwined, at the open window, and bow their heads silently. Vaughan also prays, with arms outspread in blessing. Curtain. SCENE III. Six months later. The dining-room. Percy, Vaughan, Esmé at dinner. Enter Butler. BUTLER. F you please, sir, a gentleman has called; he says he must see you at once. ; VAUGHAN. Have you told him we are at dinner? BUTLE…

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1899 · PDF PAGE 157

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ights grow clearer, More exquisite and nearer, And new life-arteries leap To fresh loves, into being, From blindness into seeing, Beyond God’s mountains steep. The words of promise spoken Flourish and flower unbroken, And for His holy token The mirror of the deep. Sing on, thou lyric lover, Sing on, and thrill me long With such delights as cover The days and deeds of wrong. Live lyre of songs immortal That pierce Heaven’s fiery portal — With shafts of splendour strong,

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1901 · PDF PAGE 34

The Mother’s Tragedy

…faned——” ULRIC. What sphinx more cruel? What new C:dipus ? You riddle, Cora, and it breaks my heart. [He sinks exhausted. (Rallying.) By God, I swear to you no lie shall keep Its Dead Sea bar against our marrying. CORA. The truth! Thetruth! Thetruth! I am indeed That whore I told you. That makes nothing here. I am the mother of thy bastard birth!

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1901 · PDF PAGE 64

The Mother’s Tragedy

…ens for the voice of life; night waits The dawn of wisdom: winter seeks the spring! RATOUM. The music of all stars arisen; the breath Of God upon the valley of the dead!

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1901 · PDF PAGE 105

The Soul of Osiris

… might dissolve the stones That grind the accurséd corn. Beneath the deep, beneath the deep, may dwell the star of morn ! “ Therefore, O God, I pray Redemption for the folk That dread the scourging light of day, That bear the midnight yoke. The Chaos was no less than this—and there the light awoke.” “ O Dog of Evil, yea ! Thou hast in wisdom said.

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1903 · PDF PAGE 79

Alice: An Adultery

…either for heaven : I railed against the sky, Hating the earth, the sea, the witchery Of all the universe : my breast I bared And cursed God, hoping lightning ; and I dared Not ask my love “ In very truth—you die ?” I could not bear it longer ; then she spake : “ I lied indeed, love, for mine honour’s sake,” And I reproached her for her love’s distrust, Saying “ I would not so in any wise Have lowered love unto the level of lust But now—” I hid my thought in tears and sighs. 59

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