Even my thoughts which, without change else,
Cyclic burn and cyclic sing.

To the hollow of Heaven transplanted,
I a breathing Eden spring,

Where with venom all outpanted
Lies the slimed Curse shrivelling.

For the brazen Serpent clear on
That old fang-ed knowledge shone;

I to Wisdom rise, Ischyron,
Agion Athanaton!

See in highest heaven pavilioned
Now the maiden Heaven rest,

The many-breasted sky out-millioned
By the splendours of her vest.

Lo, the Ark this holy tide is
The un-handmade Temple's guest,

And the dark Egyptian bride is
Whitely to the Spouse-Heart prest!

He the Anteros and Eros,
Nail me to Thee, sweetest Cross!

He is fast to me, Ischyros,
Agios Athanatos!

'Tell me, tell me, O Belov-ed,
Where Thou dost in mid-day feed!

For my wanderings are reprov-ed,
And my heart is salt with need.'

'Thine own self not spellest God in,
Nor the lisping papyrus reed?

Follow where the flocks have trodden,
Follow where the shepherds lead.'

He, the Anteros and Eros,
Mounts me in AEgyptic car,

Twin-yoked; leading me, Ischyros,
Trembling to the untempted Far.

'Make me chainlets, silvern, golden,
I that sow shall surely reap;

While as yet my Spouse is holden
Like a Lion in mountained sleep.'

'Make her chainlets, silvern, golden,
She hath sown and she shall reap;

Look up to the mountains olden,
Whence help comes with lioned leap.'

By what gushed the bitter Spear on,
Pain, which sundered, maketh one;

Crucified to Him, Ischyron,
Agion Athanaton!

Then commanded and spake to me
He who framed all things that be;

And my Maker entered through me,
In my tent His rest took He.

Lo! He standeth, Spouse and Brother;
I to Him, and He to me,

Who upraised me where my mother
Fell, beneath the apple-tree.

Risen 'twixt Anteros and Eros,
Blood and Water, Moon and Sun,

He upbears me, He Ischyros,
I bear Him, the Athanaton!

Where is laid the Lord arisen?
In the light we walk in gloom;

Though the sun has burst his prison,
We know not his biding-room.

Tell us where the Lord sojourneth,
For we find an empty tomb.

'Whence He sprung, there He returneth,
Mystic Sun,--the Virgin's Womb.'

Hidden Sun, His beams so near us,
Cloud enpillared as He was

From of old, there He, Ischyros,
Waits our search, Athanatos.

Who will give Him me for brother,
Counted of my family,

Sucking the sweet breasts of my Mother?--
I His flesh, and mine is He;

To my Bread myself the bread is,
And my Wine doth drink me: see,

His left hand beneath my head is,
His right hand embraceth me!

Sweetest Anteros and Eros,
Lo, her arms He leans across;

Dead that we die not, stooped to rear us,
Thanatos Athanatos.

Who is She, in candid vesture,
Rushing up from out the brine?

Treading with resilient gesture
Air, and with that Cup divine?

She in us and we in her are,
Beating Godward: all that pine,

Lo, a wonder and a terror!
The Sun hath blushed the Sea to Wine!

He the Anteros and Eros,
She the Bride and Spirit; for

Now the days of promise near us,
And the Sea shall be no more.

Open wide thy gates, O Virgin,
That the King may enter thee!

At all gates the clangours gurge in,
God's paludament lightens, see!

Camp of Angels! Well we even
Of this thing may doubtful be,--

If thou art assumed to Heaven,
Or is Heaven assumed to thee!

Consummatum. Christ the promised,
Thy maiden realm is won, O Strong!

Since to such sweet Kingdom comest,
Remember me, poor Thief of Song!

Cadent fails the stars along:-
Mortals, that behold a woman

Rising 'twixt the Moon and Sun;
Who am I the heavens assume? an

All am I, and I am one.
THE AFTER WOMAN.

Daughter of the ancient Eve,
We know the gifts ye gave--and give.

Who knows the gifts which YOU shall give,
Daughter of the newer Eve?

You, if my soul be augur, you
Shall--O what shall you not, Sweet, do?

The celestial traitress play,
And all mankind to bliss betray;

With sacrosanct cajoleries
And starrytreachery of your eyes,

Tempt us back to Paradise!
Make heavenly trespass;--ay, press in

Where faint the fledge-foot seraphin,
Blest Fool! Be ensign of our wars,

And shame us all to warriors!
Unbanner your bright locks,--advance

Girl, their gilded puissance,
I' the mystic vaward, and draw on

After the lovely gonfalon
Us to out-folly the excess

Of your sweet foolhardiness;
To adventure like intense

Assault against Omnipotence!
Give me song, as She is, new,

Earth should turn in time thereto!
New, and new, and thrice so new,

All old sweets, New Sweet, meant you!
Fair, I had a dream of thee,

When my young heart beat prophecy,
And in apparition elate

Thy little breasts knew wax-ed great,
Sister of the Canticle,

And thee for God grown marriageable.
How my desire desired your day,

That, wheeled in rumour on its way,
Shook me thus with presentience! Then

Eden's lopped tree shall shoot again:
For who Christ's eyes shall miss, with those

Eyes for evident nuncios?
Or who be tardy to His call

In your accents augural?
Who shall not feel the Heavens hid

Impend, at tremble of your lid,
And divineadvent shine avowed

Under that dim and lucid cloud;
Yea, 'fore the silver apocalypse

Fail, at the unsealing of your lips?
When to love YOU is (O Christ's Spouse!)

To love the beauty of His house;
Then come the Isaian days; the old

Shall dream; and our young men behold
Vision--yea, the vision of Thabor mount,

Which none to other shall recount,
Because in all men's hearts shall be

The seeing and the prophecy.
For ended is the Mystery Play,

When Christ is life, and you the way;
When Egypt's spoils are Israel's right,

And Day fulfils the married arms of Night.
But here my lips are still.

Until
You and the hour shall be revealed,

This song is sung and sung not, and its words are sealed.
GRACE OF THE WAY.

'My brother!' spake she to the sun;
The kindred kisses of the stars

Were hers; her feet were set upon
The moon. If slumber solved the bars

Of sense, or sense transpicuous grown
Fulfill-ed seeing unto sight,

I know not; nor if 'twas my own
Ingathered self that made her night.

The windy trammel of her dress,
Her blown locks, took my soul in mesh;

God's breath they spake, with visibleness
That stirred the raiment of her flesh:

And sensible, as her blown were,
Beyond the precincts of her form

I felt the woman flow from her--
A calm of intempestuous storm.

I failed against the affluent tide;
Out of this abject earth of me

I was translated and enskied
Into the heavenly-regioned She.

Now of that vision I bereaven
This knowledge keep, that may not dim:-

Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.

Which sets, to measure of man's feet,

• wisdom [´wizdəm] n.智慧，聪明，才智 (初中英语单词)
• maiden [´meidn] n.少女 a.未婚的 (初中英语单词)
• egyptian [i´dʒipʃən] n.埃及人a.埃及的 (初中英语单词)
• christ [kraist] n.基督 int.天啊! (初中英语单词)
• evident [´evidənt] a.明显的，明白的 (初中英语单词)
• divine [di´vain] a.神圣的 v.预言 (初中英语单词)
• vision [´viʒən] n.视觉；想象力；幻影 (初中英语单词)
• mystery [´mistəri] n.神秘；秘密；故弄玄虚 (初中英语单词)
• slumber [´slʌmbə] v.&n.睡眠；沉睡状态 (初中英语单词)
• breath [breθ] n.呼吸；气息 (初中英语单词)
• sensible [´sensəbəl] a.感觉得到的 (初中英语单词)
• measure [´meʒə] n.量度；范围 vt.测量 (初中英语单词)
• serpent [´sə:pənt] n.大毒蛇；阴险的人 (高中英语单词)
• sprung [sprʌŋ] spring的过去分词 (高中英语单词)
• doubtful [´dautful] a.怀疑的，可疑的 (高中英语单词)
• celestial [si´lestiəl] a.天空的，天的 (高中英语单词)
• treachery [´tretʃəri] n.背叛；背信弃义 (高中英语单词)
• heavenly [´hevənli] a.天的，天空的 (高中英语单词)
• seeing [si:iŋ] see的现在分词 n.视觉 (高中英语单词)
• kindred [´kindrid] n.亲属关系；同源关系 (高中英语单词)
• brazen [´breizən] a.黄铜制的；无耻的 (英语四级单词)
• starry [´stɑ:ri] a.星光照耀的，闪亮的 (英语四级单词)
• thrice [θrais] ad.三倍地；三次 (英语四级单词)
• advent [´ædvent] n.来临；降临 (英语四级单词)
• raiment [´reimənt] n.衣饰 (英语四级单词)
• spouse [spauz] n.配偶 (英语六级单词)
• ensign [´ensain] n.旗；徽章；标志 (英语六级单词)
• mystic [´mistik] a.神秘的；难以理解的 (英语六级单词)
• apparition [,æpə´riʃən] n.(幽灵)出现；鬼；幻影 (英语六级单词)
• abject [´æbdʒekt] a.卑鄙的；可怜的 (英语六级单词)