The Wizard Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFF GGHHIJKK LLMMNNEE GGOOPPQQQQRRSSQQTTQQ UUVVHHWW BBXX QQQQYYZZQQYYA2A2 LLGGB2B2C2C2D2D2E2UZ ZSF2G2H2I2I2I2I2I2 J2J2I2I2ZZK2L2M2M2N2 O2 P2P2I2I2ZZQ2 I2I2I2I2ZZI2I2I2I2 M2M2QQR2R2S2S2S2ZZT2 U2ZZI2I2I2R2R2R2R2 I2I2I2I2R2R2ZZ I2I2R2R2R2R2ZZV2V2 ZZI2I2R2R2M2M2QQM2M2 I2I2I2I2QQM2M2 R2R2M2M2W2W2QQI2I2 ZZYYX2X2ZZ I2I2I2I2I2I2ZZZZY2Y2 Z2Z2ZZZY2Y2I2I2 Y2Y2I2I2I2I2R2R2I2I2 ZZY2Y2R2R2I2I2Y2Y2Dedicated to General J C F Fuller | A |
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Velvet soft the night star glowed | B |
Over the untrodden road | B |
Through the giant glades of yew | C |
Where its ray fell light as dew | C |
Lighting up the shimmering veil | D |
Maiden pure and aery frail | D |
That the spiders wove to hide | E |
Blushes of the sylvan bride | E |
Earth that trembled with delight | F |
At the male caress of Night | F |
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Velvet soft the wizard trod | G |
To the Sabbath of his God | G |
With his naked feet he made | H |
Starry blossoms in the glade | H |
Softly softly as he went | I |
To the sombre sacrament | J |
Stealthy stepping to the tryst | K |
In his gown of amethyst | K |
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Earlier yet his soul had come | L |
To the Hill of Martyrdom | L |
Where the charred and crooked stake | M |
Like a black envenomed snake | M |
By the hangman's hands is thrust | N |
Through the wet and writhing dust | N |
Never black and never dried | E |
Heart's blood of a suicide | E |
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He had plucked the hazel rod | G |
From the rude and goatish god | G |
Even as the curved moon's waning ray | O |
Stolen from the King of Day | O |
He had learnt the elvish sign | P |
Given the Token of the Nine | P |
Once to rave and once to revel | Q |
Once to bow before the devil | Q |
Once to swing the thurible | Q |
Once to kiss the goat of hell | Q |
Once to dance the aspen spring | R |
Once to croak and once to sing | R |
Once to oil the savoury thighs | S |
Of the witch with sea green eyes | S |
With the unguents magical | Q |
Oh the honey and the gall | Q |
Of that black enchanter's lips | T |
As he croons to the eclipse | T |
Mingling that most puissant spell | Q |
Of the giant gods of hell | Q |
With the four ingredients | U |
Of the evil elements | U |
Ambergris from golden spar | V |
Musk of ox from Mongol jar | V |
Civet from a box of jade | H |
Mixed with fat of many a maid | H |
Slain by the inchauntments cold | W |
Of the witches wild and old | W |
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He had crucified a toad | B |
In the basilisk abode | B |
Muttering the Runes averse | X |
Mad with many a mocking curse | X |
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He had traced the serpent sigil | Q |
In his ghastly virgin vigil | Q |
Sursum cor the elfin hill | Q |
Where the wind blows deadly chill | Q |
From the world that wails beneath | Y |
Death's black throat and lipless teeth | Y |
There he had stood his bosom bare | Z |
Tracing Life upon the Air | Z |
With the crook and with the flail | Q |
Lashing forward on the gale | Q |
Till its blade that wavereth | Y |
Like the flickering of Death | Y |
Sank before his subtle fence | A2 |
To the starless sea of sense | A2 |
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Now at last the man is come | L |
Haply to his halidom | L |
Surely as he waves his rod | G |
In a circle on the sod | G |
Springs the emerald chaste and clean | B2 |
From the duller paler green | B2 |
Surely in the circle millions | C2 |
Of immaculate pavilions | C2 |
Flash upon the trembling turf | D2 |
Like the sea stars in the surf | D2 |
Millions of bejewelled tents | E2 |
For the warrior sacraments | U |
Vaster vaster vaster vaster | Z |
Grows the stature of the master | Z |
All the ringed encampment vies | S |
With the infinite galaxies | F2 |
In the midst a cubic stone | G2 |
With the Devil set thereon | H2 |
Hath a lamb's virginal throat | I2 |
Hath the body of a stoat | I2 |
Hath the buttocks of a goat | I2 |
Hath the sanguine face and rod | I2 |
Of a goddess and a god | I2 |
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Spell by spell and pace by pace | J2 |
Mystic flashes swing and trace | J2 |
Velvet soft the sigils stepped | I2 |
By the silver starred adept | I2 |
Back and front and to and fro | Z |
Soul and body sway and flow | Z |
In vertiginous caresses | K2 |
To imponderable recesses | L2 |
Till at last the spell is woven | M2 |
And the faery veil is cloven | M2 |
That was Sequence Space and Stress | N2 |
Of the soul sick consciousness | O2 |
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'Give thy body to the beasts | P2 |
Give thy spirit to the priests | P2 |
Break in twain the hazel rod | I2 |
On the virgin lips of God | I2 |
Tear the Rosy Cross asunder | Z |
Shatter the black bolt of thunder | Z |
Suck the swart ensanguine kiss | Q2 |
Of the resolute abyss ' | - |
Wonder weft the wizard heard | I2 |
This intolerable word | I2 |
Smote the blasting hazel rod | I2 |
On the scarlet lips of God | I2 |
Trampled Cross and rosy core | Z |
Brake the thunder tool of Thor | Z |
Meek and holy acolyte | I2 |
Of the priestly hells of spite | I2 |
Sleek and shameless catamite | I2 |
Of the beasts that prowl the night | I2 |
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Like a star that streams from heaven | M2 |
Through the virgin airs light riven | M2 |
From the lift there shot and fell | Q |
An admirable miracle | Q |
Carved minute and clean a key | R2 |
Of purest lapis lazuli | R2 |
More blue than the blind sky that aches | S2 |
Wreathed with the stars her torturing snakes | S2 |
For the dead god's kiss that never wakes | S2 |
Shot with golden specks of fire | Z |
Like a virgin with desire | Z |
Look the levers fern frail fronds | T2 |
Of fantastic diamonds | U2 |
Glimmering with ethereal azure | Z |
In each exquisite embrasure | Z |
On the shaft the letters laced | I2 |
As if dryads lunar chaste | I2 |
With the satyrs were embraced | I2 |
Spelled the secret of the key | R2 |
Sic pervenias And he | R2 |
Went his wizard way inweaving | R2 |
Dreams of things beyond believing | R2 |
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When he will the weary world | I2 |
Of the senses closely curled | I2 |
Like a serpent round his heart | I2 |
Shakes herself and stands apart | I2 |
So the heart's blood flames expanding | R2 |
Strenuous urgent and commanding | R2 |
And the key unlocks the door | Z |
Where his love lives evermore | Z |
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She is of the faery blood | I2 |
All smaragdine flows its flood | I2 |
Glowing in the amber sky | R2 |
To ensorcelled porphyry | R2 |
She hath eyes of glittering flake | R2 |
Like a cold grey water snake | R2 |
She hath naked breasts of amber | Z |
Jetting wine in her bed chamber | Z |
Whereof whoso stoops and drinks | V2 |
Rees the riddle of the Sphinx | V2 |
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She hath naked limbs of amber | Z |
Whereupon her children clamber | Z |
She hath five navels rosy red | I2 |
From the five wounds of God that bled | I2 |
Each wound that mothered her still bleeding | R2 |
And on that blood her babes are feeding | R2 |
Oh like a rose winged pelican | M2 |
She hath bred blessed babes to Pan | M2 |
Oh like a lion hued nightingale | Q |
She hath torn her breast on thorns to avail | Q |
The barren rose tree to renew | M2 |
Her life with that disastrous dew | M2 |
Building the rose o' the world alight | I2 |
With music out of the pale moonlight | I2 |
O She is like the river of blood | I2 |
That broke from the lips of the bastard god | I2 |
When he saw the sacred mother smile | Q |
On the ibis that flew up the foam of Nile | Q |
Bearing the limbs unblessed unborn | M2 |
That the lurking beast of Nile had torn | M2 |
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So for the world is weary I | R2 |
These dreadful souls of sense lay by | R2 |
I sacrifice these impure shoon | M2 |
To the cold ray of the waning moon | M2 |
I take the forked hazel staff | W2 |
And the rose of no terrene graff | W2 |
And the lamp of no olive oil | Q |
With heart's blood that alone may boil | Q |
With naked breast and feet unshod | I2 |
I follow the wizard way to God | I2 |
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Wherever he leads my foot shall follow | Z |
Over the height into the hollow | Z |
Up to the caves of pure cold breath | Y |
Down to the deeps of foul hot death | Y |
Across the seas through the fires | X2 |
Past the palace of desires | X2 |
Where he will whether he will or no | Z |
If I go I care not whither I go | Z |
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For in me is the taint of the faery blood | I2 |
Fast fast its emerald flood | I2 |
Leaps within me violent rude | I2 |
Like a bestial faun's beatitude | I2 |
In me the faery blood runs hard | I2 |
My sires were a druid a devil a bard | I2 |
A beast a wizard a snake and a satyr | Z |
For as my mother said what does it matter | Z |
She was a fay pure of the faery | Z |
Queen Morgan's daughter by an aery | Z |
Demon that came to Orkney once | Y2 |
To pay the Beetle his orisons | Y2 |
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So it is I that writhe with the twitch | Z2 |
Of the faery blood and the wizard itch | Z2 |
To attain a matter one may not utter | Z |
Rather than sink in the greasy splutter | Z |
Of Britons munching their bread and butter | Z |
Ailing boys and coarse grained girls | Y2 |
Grown to sloppy women and brutal churls | Y2 |
So I am off with staff in hand | I2 |
To the endless light of the nameless land | I2 |
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Darkness spreads its sombre streams | Y2 |
Blotting out the elfin dreams | Y2 |
I might haply be afraid | I2 |
Were it not the Feather maid | I2 |
Leads me softly by the hand | I2 |
Whispers me to understand | I2 |
Now when through the world of weeping | R2 |
Light at last starrily creeping | R2 |
Steals upon my babe new sight | I2 |
Light O light that is not light | I2 |
On my mouth the lips of her | Z |
Like a stone on my sepulchre | Z |
Seal my speech with ecstasy | Y2 |
Till a babe is born of me | Y2 |
That is silent more than I | R2 |
For its inarticulate cry | R2 |
Hushes as its mouth is pressed | I2 |
To the pearl her honey breast | I2 |
While its breath divinely ripples | Y2 |
The rose petals of her nipples | Y2 |
Aleister Crowley
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