Happy Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBDEFEGHIHJKLKLMMNM NOMPMQMCMRSRTMMMULCL VMSMMWXWDYLYZA2MA2LM LMMDMMUMUA2B2A2MMMC2 C2MMNMFA2CA2UFMFFMUM A2D2YD2UE2A2E2MC2A2C 2DF2F2LA2A2A2A2MSMMM MCG2UG2H2I2MJ2YJ2| For Margot | A |
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| Snow that fallest from heaven bear me aloft on thy wings | B |
| To the domes of the star girdled Seven the abode of | C |
| ineffable things | B |
| Quintessence of joy and of strength that abolishing | D |
| future and past | E |
| Mak'st the Present an infinite length my soul all One | F |
| with the Vast | E |
| The Lone the Unnameable God that is ice of His | G |
| measureless cold | H |
| Without being or form or abode without motion or | I |
| matter the fold | H |
| Where the shepherded Universe sleeps with nor sense | J |
| nor delusion nor dream | K |
| No spirit that wantons or weeps no thought in its silence | L |
| supreme | K |
| I sit and am utterly still in mine eyes is my fathomless | L |
| lust | M |
| Ablaze to annihilate Will to crumble my being to dust | M |
| To calcine the dust to an ash to burn up the ash to an air | N |
| To abolish the air with a flash of the final the fulminant | M |
| flare | N |
| All this I have done and dissolved the primordial germ | O |
| of my thought | M |
| I have rolled myself up and revolved the wheel of my | P |
| being to Naught | M |
| Is there even the memory left That I was that I am | Q |
| It is lost | M |
| As I utter the Word I am cleft by the last swift spear of | C |
| the frost | M |
| Snow I am nothing at last I sit and am utterly still | R |
| They are perished the phantoms and past they were | S |
| born of my weariness will | R |
| When I craved craved being and form when the con | T |
| sciousness cloud was a mist | M |
| Precurser of stupor and storm when I and my shadow | M |
| had kissed | M |
| And brought into life all the shapes that confused the | U |
| clear space with their marks | L |
| Vain spectres whose vapour escapes a whirlwind of | C |
| ruinous sparks | L |
| No substance have any of these I have dreamed them in | V |
| sickness of lust | M |
| Delirium born of disease ah whence was the master | S |
| the quot must quot | M |
| Imposed on the All is it true then that | M |
| something in me | W |
| Is subject to fate Are there two after all | X |
| that can be | W |
| I have brought all that is to an end for myself am suffic | D |
| ient and sole | Y |
| Do I trick myself now Shall I rend once again this | L |
| homologous Whole | Y |
| I have stripped every garment from space I have | Z |
| strangled the secre of Time | A2 |
| All being is fled from my face with Motion's inhibited | M |
| rime | A2 |
| Stiller and stiller I sit till even Infinity fades | L |
| 'Tis an idol 'tis weakness of wit that breeds in inanity | M |
| shades | L |
| Yet the fullness of Naught I become the deepest and | M |
| steadiest Naught | M |
| Contains in its nature the sum of the functions of being | D |
| and thought | M |
| Still as I sit and destroy all possible trace of the past | M |
| All germ of the future nor joy nor knowledge alive at the | U |
| last | M |
| It is vain for the Silence is dowered with a nature the | U |
| seed of a name | A2 |
| Necessity fearfully flowered with the blossom of possible | B2 |
| Aim | A2 |
| I am Necessity Scry Necessity mother of Fate | M |
| And Fate determines me quot I quot and I have the Will to create | M |
| Vast is the sphere but it turns on itself like the pettiest | M |
| star | C2 |
| And I am the looby that learns that all things equally are | C2 |
| Inscrutable Nothing the Gods the cosmos of Fire and | M |
| of Mist | M |
| Suns atoms the clouds and the clouds ineluctably dare | N |
| to exist | M |
| I have made the Voyage of Thought the Voyage of Vision | F |
| I swam | A2 |
| To the heart of the Ocean of Naught from the source of | C |
| the Spring of I am | A2 |
| I know myself wholly the brother alike of the All and the | U |
| One | F |
| I know that all things are each other that their sum and | M |
| their substance is None | F |
| But the knowledge itself can excel its fulness hath broken | F |
| its bond | M |
| All's Truth and all's falsehood as well and what of the | U |
| region beyond | M |
| So still though I sit as for ever I stab to the heart of my | A2 |
| spine | D2 |
| I destroy the last seed of endeavour to seal up my soul | Y |
| in the shrine | D2 |
| Of Silence Eternity Peace I abandon the Here and the | U |
| Now | E2 |
| I cease from the effort to cease I absolve the dead I from | A2 |
| its Vow | E2 |
| I am wholly content to be dust whether that be a mote | M |
| or a star | C2 |
| To live and to love and to lust acknowledge what seem | A2 |
| for what are | C2 |
| Not to care what I am if I be whence I came whither go | D |
| how I thrive | F2 |
| If my spirit be bound or be free save as Nature contrive | F2 |
| What I am that I am 'tis enough I am part of a glorious | L |
| game | A2 |
| Am I cast for madness or love I am cast to esteem them | A2 |
| the same | A2 |
| Am I only a dream in the sleep of some butterfly | A2 |
| Phantom of fright | M |
| Conceived who knows how or how deep in the measure | S |
| less womb of the night | M |
| I imagine impossible thought metaphysical voids that | M |
| beget | M |
| Ideas intagible wrought to things less conceivable yet | M |
| It may be Little I reck but assume the existence of | C |
| earth | G2 |
| Am I born to be hanged by the neck a curse from the | U |
| hour of my birth | G2 |
| Am I born to abolish man's guilt His horrible heritage | H2 |
| awe | I2 |
| Or a seed in his wantoness spilt by a jester I care not | M |
| a straw | J2 |
| For I understand Do what thou wilt and that is the whole | Y |
| of the Law | J2 |
Aleister Crowley
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