by Homeless Halo » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:00 pm
Thy feet in mire, thine head in murk,<br>O man, how piteous thy plight,<br>The doubts that daunt, the ills that irk,<br>Thou hast nor wit nor will to fight ---<br>How hope in heart, or worth in work?<br>No star in sight!<br> <br>Thy gods proved puppets of the priest.<br>"Truth? All's relation!" science sighed.<br>In bondage with thy brother beast,<br>Love tortured thee, as Love's hope died<br>And Lover's faith rotted. Life no least<br>Dim star descried.<br> <br>Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled<br>To find itself a chance-cast clod<br>Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled<br>That aimless accident thus trod<br>Its agony, that void skies sprawled<br>On the vain sod!<br> <br>All souls eternally exist,<br>Each individual, ultimate,<br>Perfect --- each makes itself a mist<br>Of mind and flesh to celebrate<br>With some twin mask their tender tryst<br>Insatiate. {229}<br> <br>Some drunkards, doting on the dream,<br>Despair that it should die, mistake<br>Themselves for their own shadow-scheme.<br>One star can summon them to wake<br>To self; star-souls serene that gleam<br>On life's calm lake.<br> <br>That shall end never that began.<br>All things endure because they are.<br>Do what thou wilt, for every man<br>And every woman is a star.<br>Pan is not dead; he liveth, Pan!<br>Break down the bar!<br> <br>To man I come, the number of<br>A man my number Lion of Light;<br>I am The Beast whose Law is Love.<br>Love under will, his royal right ---<br>Behold within, and not above,<br>One star in sight!<br>-----<br>Cheers<br><br>Love is the Law,<br>Daniel <p></p><i></i>