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Tannhäuser
TANNHUSER
XVI
One is incisive, corrosive;
Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant;
Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive;
Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant:
Five . . . O Danaides, O Sieve!
XVII
Now, they ply axes and crowbars;
Now, they pick pins at a tissue
Fine as a skein of the causuist EscobarÓs
Worked on the bone of a lie. To what issue?
Where is our gain at the Two-bars?
XVII
Est fuga, volvitur rota .
On we drift: where looms the dim port?
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, contribute their quota;
Something is gained, if one caught but the import Ï
Show it us, Hugues of Saxe-Gotha!
ÏR. B ROWNING , Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha .
TANNHUSER
A STORY OF ALL TIME
BY
A LEISTER C ROWLEY
Leeds
Celphas Press
2004
Originally published
London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trbner & Co. Ltd.
Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road
1902
This electronic edition
issued by Celephas Press
Somewhere beyond the Tanarian
Hills ( i.e. Leeds, Yorkshire, England)
2003
Last revised and corrected, April 2004 .
¨ Ordo Templi Orientis.
JAF Box 7666
New York
NY 10116
USA.
DEDICATION.
I SHALL not tell thee that I love thee!
Nay! by the Star in Heaven burning,
Its ray to me at midnight turning
To tell me that it beams above theeÏ
Nay! though thou wert, as I am, yearning,
I should not tell thee that I love thee!
I know what secret thought once blossomed
Into a blush that seemed a kiss,
Some swift suppressed extreme of bliss
In thy most fearful sigh embosomed.
What oracle should prate of this?
I know the secret thought that blossomed!
Extol the truth of loveÓs disdain!
Love, daring by no glance to gladden
A heart the waits but that to madden
In purple pleasure plucked of pain.
Nay! let our tears, that fail to sadden,
Extol the truth of loveÓs disdain!
. . . . .
Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture!
Hardly our eyes reveal the inward bliss,
Sealed by no speech and shadowed by no kiss.
Love is no wizard to elude recapture
In the strong prison of his silences!
Let deeper silence shield the deeper rapture!
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