the Equinox - The Hermetic Library
the Equinox - The Hermetic Library the Equinox - The Hermetic Library
80 SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT White as a corpse, the hero hails The dawn, that night of fear still shaking His body. All death's doubt assails Him. Was it sleep or was it waking? “By God, I care not, I!” (quod he). “Or wake or sleep, or live or dead, I will pursue this mystery. So help me Grace of Godlihead!” Ay! with thy wasted limbs pursue That subtle Beast home to his den! Who know but thou mayst win athrough, Sir Palamede the Saracen?
XXXI FROM God’s sweet air Sir Palamede Hath come unto a demon bog, A city where but rats may breed In sewer-stench and fetid fog. Within its heart pale phantoms crawl. Breathless with foolish haste they jog And jostle, all for naught! They scrawl Vain things all night that they disown Ere day. They call and bawl and squall Hoarse cries; they moan, they groan. A stone Hath better sense! And these among A cabbage-headed god they own, With wandering eye and jabbering tongue. He, rotting in that grimy sewer And charnel-house of death and dung, Shrieks: “How the air is sweet and pure! Give me the entrails of a frog And I will teach thee! Lo! the lure 81
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XXXI<br />
FROM God’s sweet air Sir Palamede<br />
Hath come unto a demon bog,<br />
A city where but rats may breed<br />
In sewer-stench and fetid fog.<br />
Within its heart pale phantoms crawl.<br />
Breathless with foolish haste <strong>the</strong>y jog<br />
And jostle, all for naught! <strong>The</strong>y scrawl<br />
Vain things all night that <strong>the</strong>y disown<br />
Ere day. <strong>The</strong>y call and bawl and squall<br />
Hoarse cries; <strong>the</strong>y moan, <strong>the</strong>y groan. A stone<br />
Hath better sense! And <strong>the</strong>se among<br />
A cabbage-headed god <strong>the</strong>y own,<br />
With wandering eye and jabbering tongue.<br />
He, rotting in that grimy sewer<br />
And charnel-house of death and dung,<br />
Shrieks: “How <strong>the</strong> air is sweet and pure!<br />
Give me <strong>the</strong> entrails of a frog<br />
And I will teach <strong>the</strong>e! Lo! <strong>the</strong> lure<br />
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