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Chapter VI
- 1.
- Thou wast a priestess, O my God, among the Druids; and we knew the powers of the oak.
- 2.
- We made us a temple of stones in the shape of the Universe, even as thou didst wear openly and I concealed.
- 3.
- There we performed many wonderful things by midnight.
- 4.
- By the waning moon did we work.
- 5.
- Over the plain came the atrocious cry of wolves.
- 6.
- We answered; we hunted with the pack.
- 7.
- We came even unto the new Chapel and Thou didst bear away the Holy Graal beneath Thy Druid vestments.
- 8.
- Secretly and by stealth did we drink of the informing sacrament.
- 9.
- Then a terrible disease seized upon the folk of the grey land; and we rejoiced.
- 10.
- O my God, disguise Thy glory!
- 11.
- Come as a thief, and let us steal away the Sacraments!
- 12.
- In our groves, in our cloistral cells, in our honeycomb of happiness, let us drink, let us drink!
- 13.
- It is the wine that tinges everything with the true tincture of infallible gold.
- 14.
- There are deep secrets in these songs. It is not enough to hear the bird; to enjoy song he must be the bird.
- 15.
- I am the bird, and Thou art my song, O my glorious galloping God!
- 16.
- Thou reinest in the stars; thou drivest the constellations seven abreast through the circus of Nothingness.
- 17.
- Thou Gladiator God!
- 18.
- I play upon mine harp; Thou fightest the beasts and the flames.
- 19.
- Thou takest Thy joy in the music, and I in the fighting.
- 20.
- Thou and I are beloved of the Emperor.
- 21.
- See! he has summoned us to the Imperial dais.
The night falls; it is a great orgy of worship and bliss.
- 22.
- The night falls like a spangled cloak from the shoulders of a prince upon a slave.
- 23.
- He rises a free man!
- 24.
- Cast thou, O prophet, the cloak upon these slaves!
- 25.
- A great night, and scarce fires therein; but freedom for the slave that its glory shall encompass.
- 26.
- So also I went down into the great sad city.
- 27.
- There dead Messalina bartered her crown for poison from the dead Locusta; there stood Caligula, and smote the seas of forgetfulness.
- 28.
- Who wast Thou, O Caesar, that Thou knewest God in an horse?
- 29.
- For lo! we beheld the White Horse of the Saxon engraven upon the earth; and we beheld the Horses of the Sea that flame about the old grey land, and the foam from their nostrils enlightens us!
- 30.
- Ah! but I love thee, God!
- 31.
- Thou art like a moon upon the ice-world.
- 32.
- Thou art like the dawn of the utmost snows upon the burnt-up flats of the tiger's land.
- 33.
- By silence and by speech do I worship Thee.
- 34.
- But all is in vain.
- 35.
- Only Thy silence and Thy speech that worship me avail.
- 36.
- Wail, O ye folk of the grey land, for we have drunk your wine, and left ye but the bitter dregs.
- 37.
- Yet from these we will distil ye a liquor beyond the nectar of the Gods.
- 38.
- There is value in our tincture for a world of Spice and gold.
- 39.
- For our red powder of projection is beyond all possibilities.
- 40.
- There are few men; there are enough.
- 41.
- We shall be full of cup-bearers, and the wine is not stinted.
- 42.
- O dear my God! what a feast Thou hast provided.
- 43.
- Behold the lights and the flowers and the maidens!
- 44.
- Taste of the wines and the cates and the splendid meats!
- 45.
- Breathe in the perfumes and the clouds of little gods like wood-nymphs that inhabit the nostrils!
- 46.
- Feel with your whole body the glorious smoothness of the marble coolth and the generous warmth of the sun and the slaves!
- 47.
- Let the Invisible inform all the devouring Light of its disruptive vigour!
- 48.
- Yea! all the world is split apart, as an old grey tree by the lightning!
- 49.
- Come, O ye gods, and let us feast.
- 50.
- Thou, O my darling, O my ceaseless Sparrow-God, my delight, my desire, my deceiver, come Thou and chirp at my right hand!
- 51.
- This was the tale of the memory of Al A'in the priest; yea, of Al A'in the priest.
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