the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

the Equinox - The Hermetic Library the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

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60 SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT Until the questing rose again. For there, on that ensanguine plain Standeth a-laughing at the dunce The single Beast they had not slain. There, with his friends and followers dead, His brother smitten through the head, Himself sore wounded in the thigh, Weepeth upon the deed of dread, Alone among his murdered men, The champion fool, as fools were then, Utterly broken, like to die, Sir Palamede the Saracen.

XXII SIR PALAMEDE his wits doth rally, Nursing his wound beside a lake Within an admirable valley, Whose walls their thirst on heaven slake, And in the moonlight mystical Their countless spears of silver shake. Thus reasons he: “In each and all Fyttes of this quest the quarry’s track Is wondrous geometrical. In spire and whorl twists out and back The hart with fair symmetric line. And lo! the grain of wit I lack— This Beast is Master of Design. So studying each twisted print In this mirific mind of mine, My heart may happen on a hint.” Thus as the seeker after gold Eagerly chases grain or glint, 61

XXII<br />

SIR PALAMEDE his wits doth rally,<br />

Nursing his wound beside a lake<br />

Within an admirable valley,<br />

Whose walls <strong>the</strong>ir thirst on heaven slake,<br />

And in <strong>the</strong> moonlight mystical<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir countless spears of silver shake.<br />

Thus reasons he: “In each and all<br />

Fyttes of this quest <strong>the</strong> quarry’s track<br />

Is wondrous geometrical.<br />

In spire and whorl twists out and back<br />

<strong>The</strong> hart with fair symmetric line.<br />

And lo! <strong>the</strong> grain of wit I lack—<br />

This Beast is Master of Design.<br />

So studying each twisted print<br />

In this mirific mind of mine,<br />

My heart may happen on a hint.”<br />

Thus as <strong>the</strong> seeker after gold<br />

Eagerly chases grain or glint,<br />

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