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Lo in the sanctuaried East	A
Day a dedicated priest	A
In all his robes pontifical exprest	A
Lifteth slowly lifteth sweetly	B
From out its Orient tabernacle drawn	C
Yon orb ed sacrament confest	A
Which sprinkles benediction through the dawn	C
And when the grave procession's ceased	A
The earth with due illustrious rite	A
Blessed ere the frail fingers featly	B
Of twilight violet cassocked acolyte	A
His sacerdotal stoles unvest	A
Sets for high close of the mysterious feast	A
The sun in august exposition meetly	B
Within the flaming monstrance of the West	A
O salutaris hostia	D
Quae coeli pandis ostium	E
Through breach ed darkness' rampart a	F
Divine assaulter art thou come	E
God whom none may live and mark	G
Borne within thy radiant ark	G
While the Earth a joyous David	A
Dances before thee from the dawn to dark	G
The moon O leave pale ruined Eve	H
Behold her fair and greater daughter	I
Offers to thee her fruitful water	I
Which at thy first white Ave shall conceive	H
Thy gazes do on simple her	I
Desirable allures confer	I
What happy comelinesses rise	J
Beneath thy beautifying eyes	J
Who was indeed at first a maid	A
Such as with sighs misgives she is not fair	K
And secret views herself afraid	A
Till flatteries sweet provoke the charms they swear	K
Yea thy gazes blissful lover	I
Make the beauties they discover	I
What dainty guiles and treacheries caught	A
From artful prompting of love's artless thought	A
Her lowly loveliness teach her to adorn	L
When thy plumes shiver against the conscious gates of morn	L
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And so the love which is thy dower	M
Earth though her first frightened breast	A
Against the exigent boon protest	A
For she poor maid of her own power	I
Has nothing in herself not even love	N
But an unwitting void thereof	N
Gives back to thee in sanctities of flower	I
And holy odours do her bosom invest	A
That sweeter grows for being prest	A
Though dear recoil the tremorous nurse of joy	O
From thine embrace still startles coy	O
Till Phosphor lead at thy returning hour	I
The laughing captive from the wishing West	A
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Nor the majestic heavens less	P
Thy formidable sweets approve	Q
Thy dreads and thy delights confess	P
That do draw and that remove	Q
Thou as a lion roar'st O Sun	R
Upon thy satellites' vex ed heels	S
Before thy terrible hunt thy planets run	R
Each in his frighted orbit wheels	S
Each flies through inassuageable chase	T
Since the hunt o' the world begun	R
The puissant approaches of thy face	T
And yet thy radiant leash he feels	S
Since the hunt o' the world begun	R
Lashed with terror leashed with longing	U
The mighty course is ever run	R
Pricked with terror leashed with longing	U
Thy rein they love and thy rebuke they shun	R
Since the hunt o' the world began	V
With love that trembleth fear that loveth	W
Thou join'st the woman to the man	V
And Life with Death	W
In obscure nuptials moveth	W
Commingling alien yet affin ed breath	W
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Thou art the incarnated Light	A
Whose Sire is aboriginal and beyond	A
Death and resurgence of our day and night	A
From him is thy vicegerent wand	A
With double potence of the black and white	A
Giver of Love and Beauty and Desire	I
The terror and the loveliness and purging	U
The deathfulness and lifefulness of fire	I
Samson's riddling meanings merging	U
In thy twofold sceptre meet	A
Out of thy minatory might	A
Burning Lion burning Lion	R
Comes the honey of all sweet	A
And out of thee the eater comes forth meat	A
And though by thine alternate breath	W
Every kiss thou dost inspire	X
Echoeth	W
Back from the windy vaultages of death	W
Yet thy clear warranty above	N
Augurs the wings of death too must	A
Occult reverberations stir of love	N
Crescent and life incredible	B
That even the kisses of the just	A
Go down not unresurgent to the dust	A
Yea not a kiss which I have given	R
But shall tri umph upon my lips in heaven	R
Or cling a shameful fungus there in hell	B
Know'st thou me not O Sun Yea well	B
Thou know'st the ancient miracle	B
The children know'st of Zeus and May	E
And still thou teachest them O splendent Brother	I
To incarnate the antique way	E
The truth which is their heritage from their Sire	I
In sweet disguise of flesh from their sweet Mother	I
My fingers thou hast taught to con	Y
Thy flame chorded psalterion	Y
Till I can translate into mortal wire	I
Till I can translate passing well	B
The heavenly harping harmony	Y
Melodious sealed inaudible	B
Which makes the dulcet psalter of the world's desire	I
Thou whisperest in the Moon's white ear	Z
And she does whisper into mine	Y
By night together I and she	Y
With her virgin voice divine	Y
The things I cannot half so sweetly tell	B
As she can sweetly speak I sweetly hear	Z
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By her the Woman does Earth live O Lord	A
Yet she for Earth and both in thee	Y
Light out of Light	A
Resplendent and prevailing Word	A
Of the Unheard	A
Not unto thee great Image not to thee	Y
Did the wise heathen bend an idle knee	Y
And in an age of faith grown frore	Z
If I too shall adore	Z
Be it accounted unto me	Y
A bright sciential idolatry	Y
God has given thee visible thunders	A2
To utter thine apocalypse of wonders	A2
And what want I of prophecy	Y
That at the sounding from thy station	Y
Of thy flagrant trumpet see	Y
The seals that melt the open revelation	Y
Or who a God persuading angel needs	B2
That only heeds	B2
The rhetoric of thy burning deeds	B2
Which but to sing if it may be	Y
In worship warranting moiety	A
So I would win	Y
In such a song as hath within	Y
A smouldering core of mystery	Y
Brimm ed with nimbler meanings up	C2
Than hasty Gideons in their hands may sup	C2
Lo my suit pleads	B2
That thou Isaian coal of fire	Z
Touch from yon altar my poor mouth's desire	Z
And the relucent song take for thy sacred meeds	B2
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To thine own shape	D2
Thou round'st the chrysolite of the grape	D2
Bind'st thy gold lightnings in his veins	B2
Thou storest the white garners of the rains	B2
Destroyer and preserver thou	W
Who medicinest sickness and to health	W
Art the unthank ed marrow of its wealth	W
To those apparent sovereignties we bow	W
And bright appurtenances of thy brow	W
Thy proper blood dost thou not give	E2
That Earth the gusty Maenad drink and dance	B2
Art thou not life of them that live	F2
Yea in glad twinkling advent thou dost dwell	B
Within our body as a tabernacle	B
Thou bittest with thine ordinance	B2
The jaws of Time and thou dost mete	A
The unsustainable treading of his feet	A
Thou to thy spousal universe	B2
Art Husband she thy Wife and Church	D
Who in most dusk and vidual curch	D
Her Lord being hence	B2
Keeps her cold sorrows by thy hearse	B2
The heavens renew their innocence	B2
And morning state	A
But by thy sacrament communicate	A
Their weeping night the symbol of our prayers	B2
Our darkened search	D
And sinful vigil desolate	A
Yea biune in imploring dumb	E
Essential Heavens and corporal Earth await	A
The Spirit and the Bride say Come	E
Lo of thy Magians I the least	A
Haste with my gold my incenses and myrrhs	B2
To thy desired epiphany from the spiced	A
Regions and odorous of Song's traded East	A
Thou for the life of all that live	F2
The victim daily born and sacrificed	A
To whom the pinion of this longing verse	B2
Beats but with fire which first thyself did give	E2
To thee O Sun or is't perchance to Christ	A
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Ay if men say that on all high heaven's face	B2
The saintly signs I trace	B2
Which round my stol ed altars hold their solemn place	B2
Amen amen For oh how could it be	Y
When I with wing ed feet had run	Y
Through all the windy earth about	A
Quested its secret of the sun	Y
And heard what thing the stars together shout	A
I should not heed thereout	A
Consenting counsel won	Y
'By this O Singer know we if thou see	Y
When men shall say to thee Lo Christ is here	Z
When men shall say to thee Lo Christ is there	Z
Believe them yea and this then art thou seer	Z
When all thy crying clear	Z
Is but Lo here lo there ah me lo everywhere '	-