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quot Aug quot	A
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Full moon to night and six and twenty years	B
Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres	B
A year of infinite love unwearying	C
No circling seasons but perennial spring	C
A year of triumph trampling through defeat	A
The first made holy and the last made sweet	A
By this same love a year of wealth and woe	D
Joy poverty health sickness all one glow	D
In the pure light that filled our firmament	A
Of supreme silence and unbarred extent	A
Wherein one sacrament was ours one Lord	A
One resurrection one recurrent chord	A
One incarnation one descending dove	E
All these being one and that one being Love	E
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You sent your spirit into tunes my soul	F
Yearned in a thousand melodies to enscroll	F
Its happiness I left no flower unplucked	A
That might have graced your garland I induct	A
Tragedy comedy farce fable song	C
Each longing a little each a little long	C
But each aspiring only to express	G
Your excellence and my unworthiness	G
Nay but my worthiness since I was sense	G
And spirit too of that same excellence	G
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So thus we solved the earth's revolving riddle	F
I could write verse and you could play the fiddle	F
While as for love the sun went through the signs	G
And not a star but told him how love twines	G
A wreath for every decanate degree	H
Minute and second linked eternally	H
In chains of flowers that never fading are	I
Each one as sempiternal as a star	I
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Let me go back to your last birthday Then	J
I was already your one man of men	J
Appointed to complete you and fulfil	H
From everlasting the eternal will	H
We lay within the flood of crimson light	A
In my own balcony that August night	A
And conjuring the aright and the averse	G
Created yet another universe	G
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We worked together dance and rite and spell	H
Arousing heaven and constraining hell	H
We lived together every hour of rest	A
Was honied from your tiger lily breast	A
We oh what lingering doubt or fear betrayed	A
My life to fate we parted Was I afraid	A
I was afraid afraid to live my love	E
Afraid you played the serpent I the dove	E
Afraid of what I know not I am glad	A
Of all the shame and wretchedness I had	A
Since those six weeks have taught me not to doubt you	K
And also that I cannot live without you	K
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Then I came back to you black treasons rear	L
Their heads blind hates deaf agonies of fear	L
Cruelty cowardice falsehood broken pledges	G
The temple soiled with senseless sacrileges	G
Sickness and poverty a thousand evils	G
Concerted malice of a million devils	G
You never swerved your high pooped galleon	M
Went marvellously majestically on	N
Full sailed while every other braver bark	C
Drove on the rocks or foundered in the dark	C
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Then Easter and the days of all delight	A
God's sun lit noontide and his moon midnight	A
While above all true centre of our world	A
True source of light our great love passion pearled	A
Gave all its life and splendour to the sea	G
Above whose tides stood our stability	G
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Then sudden and fierce no monitory moan	O
Smote the mad mischief of the great cyclone	O
How far below us all its fury rolled	A
How vainly sulphur tries to tarnish gold	A
We lived together all its malice meant	A
Nothing but freedom of a continent	A
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It was the forest and the river that knew	K
The fact that one and one do not make two	K
We worked we walked we slept we were at ease	G
We cried we quarrelled all the rocks and trees	G
For twenty miles could tell how lovers played	A
And we could count a kiss for every glade	A
Worry starvation illness and distress	G
Each moment was a mine of happiness	G
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Then we grew tired of being country mice	G
Came up to Paris lived our sacrifice	G
There giving holy berries to the moon	P
July's thanksgiving for the joys of June	P
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And you are gone away and how shall I	Q
Make August sing the raptures of July	Q
And you are gone away what evil star	I
Makes you so competent and popular	R
How have I raised this harpy hag of Hell's	G
Malice that you are wanted somewhere else	G
I wish you were like me a man forbid	A
Banned outcast nice society well rid	A
Of the pair of us then who would interfere	L
With us my darling you would now be here	S
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But no we must fight on win through succeed	A
Earn the grudged praise that never comes to meed	A
Lash dogs to kennel trample snakes put bit	A
In the mule mouths that have such need of it	A
Until the world there's so much to forgive in	T
Becomes a little possible to live in	T
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God alone knows if battle or surrender	R
Be the true courage either has its splendour	R
But since we chose the first God aid the right	A
And damn me if I fail you in the fight	A
God join again the ways that lie apart	A
And bless the love of loyal heart to heart	A
God keep us every hour in every thought	A
And bring the vessel of our love to port	A
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These are my birthday wishes Dawn's at hand	A
And you're an exile in a lonely land	A
But what were magic if it could not give	U
My thought enough vitality to live	V
Do not then dream this night has been a loss	G
All night I have hung a god upon the cross	G
All night I have offered incense at the shrine	W
All night you have been unutterably mine	W
Miner in the memory of the first wild hour	R
When my rough grasp tore the unwilling flower	R
From your closed garden mine in every mood	A
In every tense in every attitude	A
In every possibility still mine	W
While the sun's pomp and pageant sign to sign	W
Stately proceeded mine not only so	G
In the glamour of memory and austral glow	G
Of ardour but by image of my brow	R
Stronger than sense you are even here and now	R
Miner utterly mine my sister and my wife	X
Mother of my children mistress of my life	X
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O wild swan winging through the morning mist	A
The thousand thousand kisses that we kissed	A
The infinite device our love devised	A
If by some chance its truth might be surprised	A
Are these all past Are these to come Believe me	G
There is no parting they can never leave me	G
I have built you up into my heart and brain	Y
So fast that we can never part again	J
Why should I sing you these fantastic psalms	G
When all the time I have you in my arms	G
Why 'tis the murmur of our love that swells	G
Earth's dithyrambs and ocean's oracles	G
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But this is dawn my soul shall make its nest	A
Where your sighs swing from rapture into rest	A
Love's thurible your tiger lily breast	A

Aleister Crowley

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