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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Lathe of Morpheus - or, The dream song. A tribute to B.C. from E.M - -Author: E. M. - -Release Date: September 3, 2020 [EBook #63113] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - - - - - -THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS - -OR - -THE DREAM SONG - - - - - THE - LATHE OF MORPHEUS - OR - THE DREAM SONG - - A TRIBUTE - TO - B. C. - FROM - E. M. - - PRIVATELY PRINTED - 1915 - - H. G. COMMIN, - BOOKSELLER, - BOURNEMOUTH. - - - - -CONTENTS - - - PAGE - - PART I TO BRIDGET: THE INVOCATION } 7 - } - PART II THE GARDEN OF SLEEP } } 10 - } } - PART III THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS } THE } THE 14 - } DREAM } SONG - PART IV THE VISION GLORIOUS } } 21 - } } - PART V THE LEADEN TABLE } } 24 - } - PART VI TO BRIDGET: AN APOLOGIA } 31 - - TO BRIDGET: I CARMEN TRISTIS } 33 - } - II CARMEN LAETI } 34 - } - III SONNET TO A BOWL OF GOLD } - AND SCARLET TULIPS } 35 - - - - -PART I. - -TO BRIDGET. - -THE INVOCATION. - - - Though oft-times ill-sifting memory with deft digits thickly draws - Ashen grey curtains thwart my vagrant brain; - She ne’er from me can hide thy face and form, - Nor cloaked Oblivion, from streams of Lethe borne. - Ensnare in sable trammel, behind her basalt doors - Thy eyes, thy lips, thy smile,—that ere again - My gaping senses steep - And lull to fragrant sleep. - Fiercer in Morning Sun than in turgid hues of Night - Calcined and adust, parching my thirsting sight - Thy welcome form appears, - Grief-giving while it cheers. - Bridget! Unreal! Dead phantom of a form - Yet living, breathing—sneering, wreathed in olive scorn - Haunt not my seered soul pierced by thy secret sting; - Death to a pulsing throb, Life to a pulseless thing! - Now through the Gardens of Sleep, I see thy lovely mystic face - Pale ’gainst the scandent tendrils and resin-bleeding cones - Paler than ivory white, colder than bleachened bones, - Pallid and alburnous, fired for a lingering space - By eyes that never human in earthy regions saw. - Let me yet behold thee, far fairer than ere of yore! - For ’neath that polished painted mask of seeming deadened Love - I know some poignant passion must course in sinuous stream - Plashing with crystal foam in lustrous realms above, - From a sea, where the gods’ romances are woven in wondrous dream. - Bridget unmask! speak to me, awake, and radiant rise! - Phœnix-inspired flying from former fires into cerulean skies! - Though still wrapped in the scented cerements of the mummy I thought - was you - I would gaze on the risen Bridget, as a being both real and true; - Nothing strange or new—just true. - In the place of a ghost of a woman, whose self I never knew - In the place of an empty phantom as cold as the summer dew. - - - - -PART II. - -THE GARDEN OF SLEEP. - - - Lo! there in the Garden I behold my princess - Yea! there in the Garden of Sleep. - There in the Garden I fain would caress - My lovely princess - In the Garden of Sleep. - ’Neath the jasamine trees, and the lilac and rose - There stands my princess—so close—yes so close. - - Alloyed with the lilies—the orange pink lilies— - Among the roses and lilies - Stands my azure princess - Lo! there in the Garden of Sleep. - Midst the trembling narcissus and cadmium dillies - Midst the daf-o-down-dilies - Glides my faëry princess - In her gold-azure dress. - - Veridian the foliage packed heavy in creepers, - Olive the pine tree with sap-oozing cones; - Each rustling leaf bestirring the sleepers, - The brown buzzing bees and the resonant drones. - Dreaming with legs all bespattered with pollen; - —The passionate kiss of a love giving flower— - While velvety moths in flight silent and solemn, - Creep dreamily forth from each scent-giving bower; - And purple clematis with quivering tendrils - Drink in the pure air, and sleep-whisp’ring wind - Sad pale perfumed firs wave feathery branches - In Columbine’s fingers gently clasped and entwined - In Columbine’s pensile and pale greeny tendrils - There in the Garden of Sleep. - Where silver fountains leap - Hid in a deep recess - There roams my dear princess - ’Neath the Castle of Dreams. - Sunk there in a carpet of starwort and cress, - Where myrtle and eglantines gracefully sway - Anent the feet of my lovely princess - Lies a large bronzen bowl where the dragonflies play - In the sunbeams that blue amber lotus caress. - Filled to the brim through a lazuli funnel, - Fed from the meads by a soft lisping brook; - Pours itself forth int’ a silvery runnel, - Which laughing, flows on through that cool shaded nook, - Cool as the shadows that lie in the dress - Of my peerless princess; - Blue and crystal the bronzen bowl, reflecting the vault above - Sapphire and crystal the red bronze bowl, reflecting the face of my love - Red and gold the glittering carp that sport in the waters below - Ruby and gold the shimmering carp—the hues of a sunset glow. - White, ivory-white, and golden green are the lights that fall from the - lilies - Golden-orange and orange-green, the shades of the daf-o-down-dilies. - But far more fair in that fair recess - Are the ivory hands of my pale princess - —There in the Garden of Sleep— - And her lustrous eyes of ebon black - Curtained with lashes so silken and sleek, - The poise of her head, the line of her back, - Arched, as she culls the blood red rose - What a wonderful, classical, graceful pose - One tapering finger wantonly plays - With a lambent jewel that gently sways - O’er her breast. - In that Garden of Rest, - Where all that is purest, tenderest—best - One with another loving contest - For a smile or a kiss or a passing caress - From my azure princess. - - - - -PART III. - -[*]THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS. - - - Hid in a tenebrose valley veiled by the mushroom pine, - Aloof in the lathe of Morpheus—I know a sombre tomb - Engraved on its brazen portal is enchiseled this mystic sign: - “Behold thou vagrant pilgrim, dark Morphia’s Hetacomb.” - - Seizing the knocker in my outstretched hand - I crashed the head athwart the leaden sign; - An answering echo wandered o’er the Land - Breaking in thunderous knocks, a pale reflex of mine. - Slowly before my wondering eyes the door - Broke in a thousand fragments to the floor; - Disclosing a gaping orifice with rusty mildewed rim - The entrance to a stairway, torturous, long and grim, - Whose polished steps trailed from the sight to denser gloom within. - Then passing ’twixt two monoliths engraved one “Death,” one “Sin.” - I heard in the chasm below me the Marid’s enchanted hymn, - And I felt the chill of their icy breath, - As they dully intoned that Song of Death:— - “Black and green; with sober sheen; - They wander to and fro. - But none of mortal birth may glean - The rhythm; or why ’tis so.” - Aghast by these secret words of power, - From my forehead dripped an acrid shower - Of clotted sweat, and my trembling knees - Quaked together, like nude limbs of trees - Bark and knock on a wintry night, - For the pith of my soul was bathed in fright. - So catching my breath for a mighty shout, - I felt my life with my breath go out. - Yet only a whisper hissed forth from my lips, - Breaking between my chattering teeth in strangled shivering lisps - As I wailed to the dimness within; - “O! ye who haunt these fœtid bowers, cold Winter has gone and Spring - Hath come with her flowers.” - But all that I heard in answer, up the ebon polished stair - Was the Deathless chant of the Marids; the Jinn with the shimmering hair; - That woeful hymn of the Marids—that canticle of despair. - - “Scarlet and blue in radiant hue - They wander through Space and Time. - But none of mortal birth, save Thou - May know the rhythm or rhyme. - Great is Suleyman Daood’s son! - Great is Allah! the Only One! - When Life is lost, then Death is won. - But by virtue of the sacred fire - Here be the few who may ne’er expire.” ... - - Faint and weary with soul oppressed, - I was fearful to list for the fateful rest - Of the Song of Death—the dirge they sang— - That ne’er had been learned by mortal man. - - So grasping the banister lest I fell, - Madly I shouted: “Hail, Jans of Hell! - Servants of Iblees! Peace where ye dwell! - Ye chanters of songs that none may tell, - Ye who shun the light of God’s good day, - Answer me! set me on my way - Down these labyrinth corridors of this Tomb of fire; - Built by Magins round smoking Pyre - Where Vathek offered through lust of Power - All the youth of his City, - Without sorrow or pity, - To the gluted ghool who on evil hour - Came to his Palace with Satan’s dower.” - And still no answer—but louder grew - That fearful hymn that no mortal knew. - And through the transcendent stillness of the air - I saw their beryl eyes and gleaming hair; - Each holding aloft one leprous quivering hand - The other chained o’er the heart by a molten burning band. - - And up from the darkness, deep down beneath, - There came the murmur of voices and the moving of teeth. - Then as if at a sign, or previously bidden, - The two pillars close and the entrance is hidden, - And from corner to corner the vaulting is riven. - - The banisters vanish to float thinly away, - The black sheeny steps coil, totter and sway, - All is Darkness around, above and below, - And blood-chilling fingers brush my forehead, like snow; - A hurricane rose, and a wild whistling wind - Swept up from beneath, and in it entwined - Were the shadowy Marids with luminous eyes, - And a stench like to woodlands where the undergrowth dies - Assailed the dank ether; whilst thousands of flies, - The minions of Iblees sped whirling around; - And flesh semi-fermented smoked on the ground. - Then in the midst of this utter distress - I breathed forth the NAME of my azure Princess. - - ... - - To me awaking from this evil dream, - Rose tinted morn appeared in fulgent light, - While great Apollo with his spears did seem - To be dispelling all the hosts of night, - Proud Helios in chariot thwart the sky, - Coursing through fleecy clouds kept on his way, - And in the dimmer distance, I descry - —Where Night her maukish raiment casts away— - A crowd of fleeing objects, gleaming hair - Flying behind them in the morning air. - But brimming joys my sorrowing senses greet, - For ’midst the blossoms, sun-kissed at my feet, - There where the leaping springs the thirsty banks caress - Appeared the vision of my pale Princess. - -[*] Lathe (lath)—Anglo-Saxon laeth: a division of a county. Here the -Division belonging to Morpheus in the County of Sleep, itself a division -of the Realm of Unconsciousness. - - - - -PART IV. - -THE VISION GLORIOUS. - - - When Luna o’er the vault would fain hold sway - Striving the steeds of Phœbus to assay; - And he, the drifting racks with gilded spear had riven; - With ochreous steeds coursing the plain of Heaven, - Bore high aloft his flambent crimson bowl - Steering on ruddy Hesperus for goal. - And far behind his chariot’s dust did leave - That frail ætherial gleam—the Star of eve. - I, wearied with the day’s fatiguing sorrow - Called to proud Helios “Hasten thou the morrow”! - Then clapped dim eyes upon the scene around - The sullen austere hills, the humid misty ground - Sad that the spectral lances of the moon - Essayed the glowing firmament so soon. - For when tired Earth the arms of Day is leaving - For those of sterner Night, yet fondly cleaving - Still to Sunshine’s fingers, rose tipped as they lie - Aslant the woods, the valleys, ground and sky, - The heart of man,—in that calm solitude—alone - Sighs for his faded hopes now cold as stone - Weeps for his sins, hoping yet to atone - For actions past, unalterable—and done— - Performed, accomplished, finished—everyone— - Then inly prays with eager expectation - To Holy patron Saint,—for his salvation— - With some such thoughts as these, I sadly gazed - Over the moonlit garden’s scented air - And peering through the mist, I stood amazed, - For—lo! my patron Saint was standing there. - Gabled in raiment pale-azure as the sea - Of Northern climes, thus she appeared to me; - Azure and Silver, like to a frozen tear - Shed into Ocean by some arctic Mear; - Holy her features—haloed her raven hair, - Black eyebrows curving over dreaming eyes - She stood awhile in ecstacy, radiant, passing fair; - No one more lovely being beyond our earthy skies - Stirred by this hallowed mirage, my heart gave forth a cry, - “Blessed St. Bridget save me! intercede for my soul on High.” - Then came back a whispered echo over the sighing spray - “Blessed St. Bridget save me! _Ora pro me._” - Serenely the lovely vision smiled peacefully on me, - Then slowly faded into the even’s mist. - Drying my dewy eyelids I sank on bended knee, - And prayed to the One who had suffered, nailed to a torture-tree, - Whose gaping wounds poor doubting Thomas kissed. - - - - -PART V. - -THE LEADEN TABLET. - - - Then to my couch I bent my weary way, - And deep in sage reflection sank my soul. - Striving in halting phrases still to pray. - Striving to purge my heart, my mind, my whole. - Sinuous seductive music charmed the air, - Sweet fragrance cast such perfume all around - That I was dazed, and seeking everywhere, - No trace or sign of ought was to be found. - Then in the pentiled garth in virent ramage clothed - Open to view when lying on my bed, - —A spot that in the sunlight much I loathed— - Transpired the vision of a lovely head. - Golden of hair with slanting eyes of green, - Sharp pearléd teeth, of glassy, milky sheen, - Red rounded lips, like cherry cut in twain, - Chiseled and shapely ears straight backward lain, - A nose that Venus, of the Greeks adored, - Would madly envy; e’en she could scarce afford - To match her perfect body with the limbs - That tardy came to view below the head. - And still my haunted memory dizzy swims - When’er I view in thought her glowing form. - Mutely voluptuous, standing by my bed, - Redolent of Eve! Scented like fragrant morn! - Those rounded breasts like snowy apple fruit - Culled from pomegranate tree with leaves of tourmaline - Not even Heaven could stand contented mute - If He beheld those arms so serpentine - Those humid lips, like plum blooms when the sun is warm, - Nude to the waist, there kirtled round - With Zone of silver, prank’d with palest grey, - Like misty fleeces which at dawn are found - Clinging round hills to greet the break of Day. - Then draperies of leaden hue - Veiled her legs and feet from view. - With supple motion, noble tread - Smiling she glided t’ward my bed; - And stretching forth her rippling arms - She bade me look upon her charms. - And forth from her lips this triplet came - “Ivan, Ivan, _je t’aime, le t’aime._ - _Je te tiens et je te maintendrai_ - _Je ne cherche qu’un et je l’ai merité_” - Purling this triplet to a murmuring strain - A magic mean of pleasure and of pain - Languid toward my bed she came, - And my soul was burnt with a lusting flame. - - Rising I seized her serpent hand, icy as Death it lay on my palm - As she kissed my lips, the winds’ wild band played through her hair - the Marids psalm. - There ’twixt her naked bosoms swayed that awful leaden sign - Bearing that occult message, that terrible fateful line, - Lo! there trembled the leaden Tablet that hung on the Brazen tomb, - “Behold! thou vagrant pilgrim dark Morphia’s Hecatomb!” - With a howl of ghoulish laughter, - Like the noise of pouring water - She leapt into the air above me, - High into the air above me. - “Take me into thy arms and love me! - Or Burn till the crack of Doom! - Yea, I am the leaden tablet! - From the Night mare’s stable tomb - Forsake thou the eyes of thy Bridget! - The ebon eyes of thy Bridget! - And work with a sulphur digit - Through the weft of my firey loom. - Work on my loom of Passion - Where the threads of every fashion - That in Zamiel’s flax fields bloom. - Come twin-soul to my cavern! - Press firm thy lips against mine! - Drink from Love’s joyous tavern, - Drink deep of Passion’s wine! - And care no more and care no less - For the ebon eyes of thy pale Princess. - I will give you a golden promise of a pleasure that none have known, - And in mine own arms thou shalt learn it; just we two beings alone - Shall live in a world of Pleasure, in a Palace of utter Delight - Come sweet child, the love of my leisure, sleep in mine arms to-night.” - - “Dost thou give me a golden promise of pleasure apart from pain? - Of a life that is always happy, of a rose-bed that none may gain, - Save we two being together, alone in a world of our own? - Take me, ‘my sacrifice,’ take me, to the Loom and the flaxen Zone.” - She lifted me into her bosom, caressing my hair the while, - And over her lips of crimson there played a terrible smile - “Yourself for the coming bridal, myself I will comely deck,” - And she fastened her teeth white and gleaming deep into the vein of - my neck. - And I dreamed as ye dream with Morphia - Just a floating, fainting away; - A dream that is bought from Morphia - And Death is the price ye pay. - - But horrid terror seized upon my heart - Bidding me fight. - So vainly struggling in unequal part - I fought for right. - Seeking by blows my ebbing life to save, - On through the night; - Fighting the fiend, who thirsting, tightly clave; - —A ghastly sight— - Teeth deep embedded, drinking from my vein; - Till morning light - Greeted by crowing cockerel, smiling came; - Then gripping tight, - I seized her gulping throat in clenching hands. - With all my might, - Thumbs fixed like iron bands. - Panting I crushed her skull, - Kneeling upon her breast. - Then with a vicious pull - I tore out her pulsing throat, - Leaving the quivering rest, - Eyes stagnant glazed and dull - Wrapped, morient in my coat. - - Sweating and breathless, blindly I sought for water; - Prone to the floor I fell stumbling thwart Zamiel’s daughter. - Blood, from my aching wound, dripped to the floor; - Faint in a numbing swound I lay in my gore. - Then gentle hands poured cooling draught betwixt my parchéd lips - Forcing the elixir of life back in thirsty sips - And bending o’er my tumbled couch my azure pale Princess - Left on the Vampire’s burning wounds her cooling lips’ impress. - - - - -PART VI. - -THE APOLOGIA. - - - O Bridget! whose white skin is like to petals of the gladiola flower, - Remember this, that from that destined hour - When thou was christened, thou was named “POWER.” - Power thou hast—and that a wonderous awful gift— - Under whose diction thou can’st sink or lift - Souls, spirits, hearts, from mirky cleft and rift - To higher ways. But also thou can’st drive - Creatures so deep, that few can ever dive - Down to the depths and bring them up alive, - Power thy sister e’er will be through life. - “POWER” will rise victorious from every worldly strife. - Power is “POWER’S” heritage, manifest and rife, - Beware of Power—two edged—a double-bladed knife. - Dreams and haunting visions by thy name alone - I oft-times have conquered; trusting in thee I’ve gone - Through perils gaunt and numerous ground on Passion’s stone. - Bridget, although it ere may be thy mission - To play at games with Power’s mate—Ambition— - See! hidden at her back stands Sinuous Sedition! - Loving perhaps too much thy tenderer, truer side - I to my inward passion have at length complied, - Lest in the smothering of it, I to myself had lied. - Crudely and roughly shaken from Euterpe’s sieve - These frail halting stanzas now to thy care I give, - Feeling that every letter by thee wast made to live. - Scorn not then this limping, poor, procession - Of rhythmic lines; nor treat with proud aggression - These faulty verses; waiting at thy session - For tempered judgment; merciful then be - Ever with kindness keeping within thy memory, - That every written sentiment, is a living part of me. - -Written at “Stagsden,” Bournemouth, 1915. - - - - -TO BRIDGET. - -“CARMEN TRISTIS.” - - - How can I sing a song, love, when my heart is full of woe? - Grief that is hard to bear, love; grief that is gnawing and slow - Crimson rimmed are my eyes, love; bitter my soul within; - Bid me to mope and mourn, love, for I haven’t the mind to sing. - - Though the Sun may shine in the skies, dear, - Though the day be blithesome and gay; - When the Mirth of my heart quietly dies, dear, - Poor homage to joy can I pay. - - For I am far from thy love, dear, - From thee who my heart feeds with smiles; - More fair than the blossoms above, dear, - Or the Pearls of the fairy isles. - - How then can I sing a song, love? - How then may I carol a lay? - When thee, for whom my eyes long, love, - Art far from my sight away. - -Bournemouth, April 10th, 1915. - - - - -“CARMEN LAETI.” - - - When Mirth and Joy come flitting in, - The heart with glee is filled within. - When I shall journey back to thee - My soul will dance in gaiety. - - Merriment shall reign supreme, - In every eye a joyous beam; - Mirth shall caper all day long, - In every heart an airy song. - - Bid me to sing a round-a-lay - And I will trill to break of day - A Ballad, pastorale, stave or air - Or roulade to my Lady’s hair. - - As blithesome lark from Morn’s pearl dew - Is lost to sight in Heaven’s blue - Rising with carol to the skies - So am I lost in my lady’s eyes. - -Bournemouth, April 11th, 1915. - -NOTE: The form of these two Songs was suggested from reading a book of -Elizabethan verse. - - - - -SONNET TO A BOWL OF GOLD AND SCARLET TULIPS. - - - O blossoms! when I gaze - Down into your fair, radiant faces, - Glowing up at me from verdant graces; - Your rarities amaze. - The very gold-bars of the Summer Sun - May well give place to your more candent hue. - For sunshine yet, I still can seek in you; - E’en when the Orb’s illuminèd course is run. - Your damask pinions, furled about your form - Give subtle sheen and incense to the air; - Your gold-dust tongues kiss to the winds pale care - Alone for peace and pleasure were ye borne. - Whilst to my mind ye bring me, by your grace, - A yet more lovely and more radiant face. - -Bournemouth, April 12th, 1915. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lathe of Morpheus, by E. 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M. - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Lathe of Morpheus - or, The dream song. A tribute to B.C. from E.M - -Author: E. M. - -Release Date: September 3, 2020 [EBook #63113] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS *** - - - - -Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive/American Libraries.) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<h1>THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS<br /> -<span class="smaller"><span class="smaller">OR</span><br /> -THE DREAM SONG</span></h1> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage larger">THE<br /> -LATHE OF MORPHEUS<br /> -<span class="smaller"><span class="smaller">OR</span><br /> -THE DREAM SONG</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage">A TRIBUTE<br /> -<span class="fts1">TO</span><br /> -B. C.<br /> -<span class="fts2">FROM</span><br /> -E. M.</p> - -<p class="titlepage">PRIVATELY PRINTED<br /> -1915</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage smaller"><span class="smcap">H. G. Commin,<br /> -Bookseller,<br /> -Bournemouth.</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">CONTENTS</h2> - -</div> - -<table summary="Contents"> - <tr> - <td colspan="8"></td> - <td class="tdpg smaller">PAGE</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td><span class="smcap">Part I</span></td> - <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">To Bridget: The Invocation</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td rowspan="6" class="valign"><span class="smcap">The Song</span></td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Part_I">7</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td><span class="smcap">Part II</span></td> - <td colspan="2"><span class="smcap">The Garden of Sleep</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td rowspan="4" class="valign"><span class="smcap">The Dream</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Part_II">10</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td><span class="smcap">Part III</span></td> - <td colspan="2"><span class="smcap">The Lathe of Morpheus</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Part_III">14</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td><span class="smcap">Part IV</span></td> - <td colspan="2"><span class="smcap">The Vision Glorious</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Part_IV">21</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td><span class="smcap">Part V</span></td> - <td colspan="2"><span class="smcap">The Leaden Table</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Part_V">24</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td></td> - <td><span class="smcap">Part VI</span></td> - <td colspan="4"><span class="smcap">To Bridget: An Apologia</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#Part_VI">31</a></td> - </tr> - <tr class="pad-top"> - <td rowspan="3"><span class="smcap">To Bridget</span>:</td> - <td>I</td> - <td colspan="5"><span class="smcap">Carmen Tristis</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CARMEN_TRISTIS">33</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>II</td> - <td colspan="5"><span class="smcap">Carmen Laeti</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#CARMEN_LAETI">34</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td>III</td> - <td colspan="5"><span class="smcap">Sonnet to a Bowl of Gold and Scarlet Tulips</span></td> - <td class="tdpg">}</td> - <td class="tdpg"><a href="#SONNET">35</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Part_I"><span class="smcap">Part I.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">TO BRIDGET.<br /> -THE INVOCATION.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Though oft-times ill-sifting memory with deft digits thickly draws</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ashen grey curtains thwart my vagrant brain;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She ne’er from me can hide thy face and form,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nor cloaked Oblivion, from streams of Lethe borne.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ensnare in sable trammel, behind her basalt doors</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thy eyes, thy lips, thy smile,—that ere again</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My gaping senses steep</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And lull to fragrant sleep.</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Fiercer in Morning Sun than in turgid hues of Night</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Calcined and adust, parching my thirsting sight</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Thy welcome form appears,</div> - <div class="verse indent10">Grief-giving while it cheers.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> - <div class="verse indent4">Bridget! Unreal! Dead phantom of a form</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Yet living, breathing—sneering, wreathed in olive scorn</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Haunt not my seered soul pierced by thy secret sting;</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Death to a pulsing throb, Life to a pulseless thing!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Now through the Gardens of Sleep, I see thy lovely mystic face</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pale ’gainst the scandent tendrils and resin-bleeding cones</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Paler than ivory white, colder than bleachened bones,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pallid and alburnous, fired for a lingering space</div> - <div class="verse indent0">By eyes that never human in earthy regions saw.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Let me yet behold thee, far fairer than ere of yore!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For ’neath that polished painted mask of seeming deadened Love</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I know some poignant passion must course in sinuous stream</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Plashing with crystal foam in lustrous realms above,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From a sea, where the gods’ romances are woven in wondrous dream.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bridget unmask! speak to me, awake, and radiant rise!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Phœnix-inspired flying from former fires into cerulean skies!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though still wrapped in the scented cerements of the mummy I thought was you</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I would gaze on the risen Bridget, as a being both real and true;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nothing strange or new—just true.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the place of a ghost of a woman, whose self I never knew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the place of an empty phantom as cold as the summer dew.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Part_II"><span class="smcap">Part II.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">THE GARDEN OF SLEEP.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Lo! there in the Garden I behold my princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yea! there in the Garden of Sleep.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There in the Garden I fain would caress</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My lovely princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the Garden of Sleep.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Neath the jasamine trees, and the lilac and rose</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There stands my princess—so close—yes so close.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Alloyed with the lilies—the orange pink lilies—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Among the roses and lilies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stands my azure princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lo! there in the Garden of Sleep.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Midst the trembling narcissus and cadmium dillies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Midst the daf-o-down-dilies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Glides my faëry princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In her gold-azure dress.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Veridian the foliage packed heavy in creepers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Olive the pine tree with sap-oozing cones;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each rustling leaf bestirring the sleepers,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The brown buzzing bees and the resonant drones.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Dreaming with legs all bespattered with pollen;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">—The passionate kiss of a love giving flower—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While velvety moths in flight silent and solemn,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Creep dreamily forth from each scent-giving bower;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And purple clematis with quivering tendrils</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Drink in the pure air, and sleep-whisp’ring wind</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sad pale perfumed firs wave feathery branches</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Columbine’s fingers gently clasped and entwined</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In Columbine’s pensile and pale greeny tendrils</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There in the Garden of Sleep.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where silver fountains leap</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hid in a deep recess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There roams my dear princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">’Neath the Castle of Dreams.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Sunk there in a carpet of starwort and cress,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where myrtle and eglantines gracefully sway</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Anent the feet of my lovely princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lies a large bronzen bowl where the dragonflies play</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In the sunbeams that blue amber lotus caress.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Filled to the brim through a lazuli funnel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fed from the meads by a soft lisping brook;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Pours itself forth int’ a silvery runnel,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Which laughing, flows on through that cool shaded nook,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Cool as the shadows that lie in the dress</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of my peerless princess;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blue and crystal the bronzen bowl, reflecting the vault above</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sapphire and crystal the red bronze bowl, reflecting the face of my love</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Red and gold the glittering carp that sport in the waters below</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ruby and gold the shimmering carp—the hues of a sunset glow.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">White, ivory-white, and golden green are the lights that fall from the lilies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Golden-orange and orange-green, the shades of the daf-o-down-dilies.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But far more fair in that fair recess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Are the ivory hands of my pale princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">—There in the Garden of Sleep—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And her lustrous eyes of ebon black</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Curtained with lashes so silken and sleek,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The poise of her head, the line of her back,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Arched, as she culls the blood red rose</div> - <div class="verse indent0">What a wonderful, classical, graceful pose</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One tapering finger wantonly plays</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a lambent jewel that gently sways</div> - <div class="verse indent0">O’er her breast.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In that Garden of Rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where all that is purest, tenderest—best</div> - <div class="verse indent0">One with another loving contest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For a smile or a kiss or a passing caress</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From my azure princess.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Part_III"><span class="smcap">Part III.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller"><a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">*</a>THE LATHE OF MORPHEUS.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Hid in a tenebrose valley veiled by the mushroom pine,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aloof in the lathe of Morpheus—I know a sombre tomb</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Engraved on its brazen portal is enchiseled this mystic sign:</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Behold thou vagrant pilgrim, dark Morphia’s Hetacomb.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Seizing the knocker in my outstretched hand</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I crashed the head athwart the leaden sign;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">An answering echo wandered o’er the Land</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Breaking in thunderous knocks, a pale reflex of mine.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> - <div class="verse indent6">Slowly before my wondering eyes the door</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Broke in a thousand fragments to the floor;</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Disclosing a gaping orifice with rusty mildewed rim</div> - <div class="verse indent6">The entrance to a stairway, torturous, long and grim,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Whose polished steps trailed from the sight to denser gloom within.</div> - <div class="verse indent6">Then passing ’twixt two monoliths engraved one “Death,” one “Sin.”</div> - <div class="verse indent6">I heard in the chasm below me the Marid’s enchanted hymn,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">And I felt the chill of their icy breath,</div> - <div class="verse indent6">As they dully intoned that Song of Death:—</div> - <div class="verse indent6">“Black and green; with sober sheen;</div> - <div class="verse indent6">They wander to and fro.</div> - <div class="verse indent6">But none of mortal birth may glean</div> - <div class="verse indent6">The rhythm; or why ’tis so.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aghast by these secret words of power,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From my forehead dripped an acrid shower</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of clotted sweat, and my trembling knees</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Quaked together, like nude limbs of trees</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Bark and knock on a wintry night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the pith of my soul was bathed in fright.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So catching my breath for a mighty shout,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I felt my life with my breath go out.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yet only a whisper hissed forth from my lips,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Breaking between my chattering teeth in strangled shivering lisps</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As I wailed to the dimness within;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“O! ye who haunt these fœtid bowers, cold Winter has gone and Spring</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Hath come with her flowers.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But all that I heard in answer, up the ebon polished stair</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Was the Deathless chant of the Marids; the Jinn with the shimmering hair;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That woeful hymn of the Marids—that canticle of despair.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent4">“Scarlet and blue in radiant hue</div> - <div class="verse indent4">They wander through Space and Time.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">But none of mortal birth, save Thou</div> - <div class="verse indent4">May know the rhythm or rhyme.</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Great is Suleyman Daood’s son!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Great is Allah! the Only One!</div> - <div class="verse indent4">When Life is lost, then Death is won.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span> - <div class="verse indent4">But by virtue of the sacred fire</div> - <div class="verse indent4">Here be the few who may ne’er expire.” ...</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Faint and weary with soul oppressed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I was fearful to list for the fateful rest</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of the Song of Death—the dirge they sang—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That ne’er had been learned by mortal man.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">So grasping the banister lest I fell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Madly I shouted: “Hail, Jans of Hell!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Servants of Iblees! Peace where ye dwell!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ye chanters of songs that none may tell,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ye who shun the light of God’s good day,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Answer me! set me on my way</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Down these labyrinth corridors of this Tomb of fire;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Built by Magins round smoking Pyre</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where Vathek offered through lust of Power</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All the youth of his City,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Without sorrow or pity,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To the gluted ghool who on evil hour</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Came to his Palace with Satan’s dower.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And still no answer—but louder grew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That fearful hymn that no mortal knew.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And through the transcendent stillness of the air</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I saw their beryl eyes and gleaming hair;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Each holding aloft one leprous quivering hand</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The other chained o’er the heart by a molten burning band.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">And up from the darkness, deep down beneath,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There came the murmur of voices and the moving of teeth.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then as if at a sign, or previously bidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The two pillars close and the entrance is hidden,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And from corner to corner the vaulting is riven.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">The banisters vanish to float thinly away,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The black sheeny steps coil, totter and sway,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">All is Darkness around, above and below,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And blood-chilling fingers brush my forehead, like snow;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A hurricane rose, and a wild whistling wind</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Swept up from beneath, and in it entwined</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Were the shadowy Marids with luminous eyes,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And a stench like to woodlands where the undergrowth dies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Assailed the dank ether; whilst thousands of flies,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The minions of Iblees sped whirling around;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And flesh semi-fermented smoked on the ground.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then in the midst of this utter distress</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I breathed forth the NAME of my azure Princess.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent10">...</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">To me awaking from this evil dream,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rose tinted morn appeared in fulgent light,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">While great Apollo with his spears did seem</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To be dispelling all the hosts of night,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Proud Helios in chariot thwart the sky,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Coursing through fleecy clouds kept on his way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in the dimmer distance, I descry</div> - <div class="verse indent0">—Where Night her maukish raiment casts away—</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">A crowd of fleeing objects, gleaming hair</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Flying behind them in the morning air.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">But brimming joys my sorrowing senses greet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For ’midst the blossoms, sun-kissed at my feet,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There where the leaping springs the thirsty banks caress</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Appeared the vision of my pale Princess.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="footnotes"> -<div class="footnote"> -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">*</a> Lathe (lath)—Anglo-Saxon laeth: a division of a county. -Here the Division belonging to Morpheus in the County -of Sleep, itself a division of the Realm of Unconsciousness.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Part_IV"><span class="smcap">Part IV.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">THE VISION GLORIOUS.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When Luna o’er the vault would fain hold sway</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Striving the steeds of Phœbus to assay;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And he, the drifting racks with gilded spear had riven;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With ochreous steeds coursing the plain of Heaven,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bore high aloft his flambent crimson bowl</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Steering on ruddy Hesperus for goal.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And far behind his chariot’s dust did leave</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That frail ætherial gleam—the Star of eve.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I, wearied with the day’s fatiguing sorrow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Called to proud Helios “Hasten thou the morrow”!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then clapped dim eyes upon the scene around</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The sullen austere hills, the humid misty ground</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sad that the spectral lances of the moon</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Essayed the glowing firmament so soon.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">For when tired Earth the arms of Day is leaving</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For those of sterner Night, yet fondly cleaving</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Still to Sunshine’s fingers, rose tipped as they lie</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Aslant the woods, the valleys, ground and sky,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The heart of man,—in that calm solitude—alone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sighs for his faded hopes now cold as stone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Weeps for his sins, hoping yet to atone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For actions past, unalterable—and done—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Performed, accomplished, finished—everyone—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then inly prays with eager expectation</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To Holy patron Saint,—for his salvation—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With some such thoughts as these, I sadly gazed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Over the moonlit garden’s scented air</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And peering through the mist, I stood amazed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For—lo! my patron Saint was standing there.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Gabled in raiment pale-azure as the sea</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of Northern climes, thus she appeared to me;</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Azure and Silver, like to a frozen tear</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shed into Ocean by some arctic Mear;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Holy her features—haloed her raven hair,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Black eyebrows curving over dreaming eyes</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She stood awhile in ecstacy, radiant, passing fair;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No one more lovely being beyond our earthy skies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Stirred by this hallowed mirage, my heart gave forth a cry,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Blessed St. Bridget save me! intercede for my soul on High.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then came back a whispered echo over the sighing spray</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Blessed St. Bridget save me! <i>Ora pro me.</i>”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Serenely the lovely vision smiled peacefully on me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then slowly faded into the even’s mist.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Drying my dewy eyelids I sank on bended knee,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And prayed to the One who had suffered, nailed to a torture-tree,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whose gaping wounds poor doubting Thomas kissed.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Part_V"><span class="smcap">Part V.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">THE LEADEN TABLET.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Then to my couch I bent my weary way,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And deep in sage reflection sank my soul.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Striving in halting phrases still to pray.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Striving to purge my heart, my mind, my whole.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sinuous seductive music charmed the air,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sweet fragrance cast such perfume all around</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That I was dazed, and seeking everywhere,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">No trace or sign of ought was to be found.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then in the pentiled garth in virent ramage clothed</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Open to view when lying on my bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">—A spot that in the sunlight much I loathed—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Transpired the vision of a lovely head.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Golden of hair with slanting eyes of green,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Sharp pearléd teeth, of glassy, milky sheen,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Red rounded lips, like cherry cut in twain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Chiseled and shapely ears straight backward lain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A nose that Venus, of the Greeks adored,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Would madly envy; e’en she could scarce afford</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To match her perfect body with the limbs</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That tardy came to view below the head.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And still my haunted memory dizzy swims</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When’er I view in thought her glowing form.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mutely voluptuous, standing by my bed,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Redolent of Eve! Scented like fragrant morn!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those rounded breasts like snowy apple fruit</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Culled from pomegranate tree with leaves of tourmaline</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Not even Heaven could stand contented mute</div> - <div class="verse indent0">If He beheld those arms so serpentine</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Those humid lips, like plum blooms when the sun is warm,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Nude to the waist, there kirtled round</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With Zone of silver, prank’d with palest grey,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like misty fleeces which at dawn are found</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Clinging round hills to greet the break of Day.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Then draperies of leaden hue</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Veiled her legs and feet from view.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With supple motion, noble tread</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Smiling she glided t’ward my bed;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And stretching forth her rippling arms</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She bade me look upon her charms.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And forth from her lips this triplet came</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Ivan, Ivan, <i>je t’aime, le t’aime.</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Je te tiens et je te maintendrai</i></div> - <div class="verse indent0"><i>Je ne cherche qu’un et je l’ai merité</i>”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Purling this triplet to a murmuring strain</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A magic mean of pleasure and of pain</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Languid toward my bed she came,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And my soul was burnt with a lusting flame.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Rising I seized her serpent hand, icy as Death it lay on my palm</div> - <div class="verse indent0">As she kissed my lips, the winds’ wild band played through her hair the Marids psalm.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">There ’twixt her naked bosoms swayed that awful leaden sign</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bearing that occult message, that terrible fateful line,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Lo! there trembled the leaden Tablet that hung on the Brazen tomb,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Behold! thou vagrant pilgrim dark Morphia’s Hecatomb!”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With a howl of ghoulish laughter,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Like the noise of pouring water</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She leapt into the air above me,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">High into the air above me.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Take me into thy arms and love me!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or Burn till the crack of Doom!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Yea, I am the leaden tablet!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From the Night mare’s stable tomb</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Forsake thou the eyes of thy Bridget!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The ebon eyes of thy Bridget!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And work with a sulphur digit</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through the weft of my firey loom.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Work on my loom of Passion</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Where the threads of every fashion</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That in Zamiel’s flax fields bloom.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come twin-soul to my cavern!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Press firm thy lips against mine!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Drink from Love’s joyous tavern,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Drink deep of Passion’s wine!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And care no more and care no less</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For the ebon eyes of thy pale Princess.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">I will give you a golden promise of a pleasure that none have known,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And in mine own arms thou shalt learn it; just we two beings alone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Shall live in a world of Pleasure, in a Palace of utter Delight</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Come sweet child, the love of my leisure, sleep in mine arms to-night.”</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">“Dost thou give me a golden promise of pleasure apart from pain?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of a life that is always happy, of a rose-bed that none may gain,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Save we two being together, alone in a world of our own?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Take me, ‘my sacrifice,’ take me, to the Loom and the flaxen Zone.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">She lifted me into her bosom, caressing my hair the while,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And over her lips of crimson there played a terrible smile</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“Yourself for the coming bridal, myself I will comely deck,”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And she fastened her teeth white and gleaming deep into the vein of my neck.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">And I dreamed as ye dream with Morphia</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Just a floating, fainting away;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A dream that is bought from Morphia</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And Death is the price ye pay.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">But horrid terror seized upon my heart</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bidding me fight.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So vainly struggling in unequal part</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I fought for right.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Seeking by blows my ebbing life to save,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">On through the night;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Fighting the fiend, who thirsting, tightly clave;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">—A ghastly sight—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Teeth deep embedded, drinking from my vein;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Till morning light</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Greeted by crowing cockerel, smiling came;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then gripping tight,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I seized her gulping throat in clenching hands.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">With all my might,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Thumbs fixed like iron bands.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Panting I crushed her skull,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Kneeling upon her breast.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Then with a vicious pull</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I tore out her pulsing throat,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Leaving the quivering rest,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Eyes stagnant glazed and dull</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Wrapped, morient in my coat.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Sweating and breathless, blindly I sought for water;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Prone to the floor I fell stumbling thwart Zamiel’s daughter.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Blood, from my aching wound, dripped to the floor;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Faint in a numbing swound I lay in my gore.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Then gentle hands poured cooling draught betwixt my parchéd lips</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Forcing the elixir of life back in thirsty sips</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And bending o’er my tumbled couch my azure pale Princess</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Left on the Vampire’s burning wounds her cooling lips’ impress.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak" id="Part_VI"><span class="smcap">Part VI.</span><br /> -<span class="smaller">THE APOLOGIA.</span></h2> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O Bridget! whose white skin is like to petals of the gladiola flower,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Remember this, that from that destined hour</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When thou was christened, thou was named “POWER.”</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Power thou hast—and that a wonderous awful gift—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Under whose diction thou can’st sink or lift</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Souls, spirits, hearts, from mirky cleft and rift</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To higher ways. But also thou can’st drive</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Creatures so deep, that few can ever dive</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Down to the depths and bring them up alive,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Power thy sister e’er will be through life.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">“POWER” will rise victorious from every worldly strife.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Power is “POWER’S” heritage, manifest and rife,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Beware of Power—two edged—a double-bladed knife.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> - <div class="verse indent0">Dreams and haunting visions by thy name alone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I oft-times have conquered; trusting in thee I’ve gone</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Through perils gaunt and numerous ground on Passion’s stone.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bridget, although it ere may be thy mission</div> - <div class="verse indent0">To play at games with Power’s mate—Ambition—</div> - <div class="verse indent0">See! hidden at her back stands Sinuous Sedition!</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Loving perhaps too much thy tenderer, truer side</div> - <div class="verse indent0">I to my inward passion have at length complied,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Lest in the smothering of it, I to myself had lied.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crudely and roughly shaken from Euterpe’s sieve</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These frail halting stanzas now to thy care I give,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Feeling that every letter by thee wast made to live.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Scorn not then this limping, poor, procession</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Of rhythmic lines; nor treat with proud aggression</div> - <div class="verse indent0">These faulty verses; waiting at thy session</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For tempered judgment; merciful then be</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Ever with kindness keeping within thy memory,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">That every written sentiment, is a living part of me.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="smaller hanging">Written at “Stagsden,”<br /> -Bournemouth, 1915.</p> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span></p> - -<h2 class="nobreak">TO BRIDGET.</h2> - -<h3 class="nobreak" id="CARMEN_TRISTIS">“CARMEN TRISTIS.”</h3> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">How can I sing a song, love, when my heart is full of woe?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Grief that is hard to bear, love; grief that is gnawing and slow</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Crimson rimmed are my eyes, love; bitter my soul within;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Bid me to mope and mourn, love, for I haven’t the mind to sing.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Though the Sun may shine in the skies, dear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Though the day be blithesome and gay;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When the Mirth of my heart quietly dies, dear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Poor homage to joy can I pay.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">For I am far from thy love, dear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">From thee who my heart feeds with smiles;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">More fair than the blossoms above, dear,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or the Pearls of the fairy isles.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">How then can I sing a song, love?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">How then may I carol a lay?</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When thee, for whom my eyes long, love,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Art far from my sight away.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="smaller hanging">Bournemouth,<br /> -April 10th, 1915.</p> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span></p> - -<h3 class="nobreak" id="CARMEN_LAETI">“CARMEN LAETI.”</h3> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">When Mirth and Joy come flitting in,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The heart with glee is filled within.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">When I shall journey back to thee</div> - <div class="verse indent0">My soul will dance in gaiety.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Merriment shall reign supreme,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In every eye a joyous beam;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Mirth shall caper all day long,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">In every heart an airy song.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">Bid me to sing a round-a-lay</div> - <div class="verse indent0">And I will trill to break of day</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A Ballad, pastorale, stave or air</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Or roulade to my Lady’s hair.</div> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">As blithesome lark from Morn’s pearl dew</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Is lost to sight in Heaven’s blue</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Rising with carol to the skies</div> - <div class="verse indent0">So am I lost in my lady’s eyes.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="smaller hanging">Bournemouth,<br /> -April 11th, 1915.</p> - -<p class="smaller titlepage"><span class="smcap">Note</span>: The form of these two Songs was suggested from reading -a book of Elizabethan verse.</p> - -<hr /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span></p> - -<h3 class="nobreak" id="SONNET">SONNET TO A BOWL OF GOLD AND SCARLET TULIPS.</h3> - -</div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> - <div class="stanza"> - <div class="verse indent0">O blossoms! when I gaze</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Down into your fair, radiant faces,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Glowing up at me from verdant graces;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your rarities amaze.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">The very gold-bars of the Summer Sun</div> - <div class="verse indent0">May well give place to your more candent hue.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">For sunshine yet, I still can seek in you;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">E’en when the Orb’s illuminèd course is run.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your damask pinions, furled about your form</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Give subtle sheen and incense to the air;</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Your gold-dust tongues kiss to the winds pale care</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Alone for peace and pleasure were ye borne.</div> - <div class="verse indent0">Whilst to my mind ye bring me, by your grace,</div> - <div class="verse indent0">A yet more lovely and more radiant face.</div> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<p class="smaller hanging">Bournemouth,<br /> -April 12th, 1915.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lathe of Morpheus, by E. 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