of dark speech with whom thy daughters did lie luxuriously?
Look forth now, my people, upon the land of behest,
even from Horeb and from Nebo and from Pisgah and from
the Horns of Hatten unto a land flowing with milk
and money. But thou hast suckled me with a bitter
milk: my moon and my sun thou hast quenched for
ever. And thou hast left me alone for ever in
the dark ways of my bitterness: and with a kiss
of ashes hast thou kissed my mouth. This tenebrosity
of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been
illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much
as mentioned for the Orient from on high Which brake
hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.
Assuefaction minorates atrocities (as Tully saith of
his darling Stoics) and Hamlet his father showeth
the prince no blister of combustion. The adiaphane
in the noon of life is an Egypt’s plague which
in the nights of prenativity and postmortemity is
their most proper UBI and QUOMODO. And as the
ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean
and measure with their inceptions and originals, that
same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth
from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis
that minishing and ablation towards the final which
is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar
being. The aged sisters draw us into life:
we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle,
die: over us dead they bend. First, saved
from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of
fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain,
an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the
hillcat and the ossifrage. And as no man knows
the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we
shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or to
Edenville in the like way is all hidden when we would
backward see from what region of remoteness the whatness
of our whoness hath fetched his whenceness.
Thereto Punch Costello roared out mainly Etienne
chanson but he loudly bid them, lo, wisdom hath
built herself a house, this vast majestic longstablished
vault, the crystal palace of the Creator, all in applepie
order, a penny for him who finds the pea.
Behold the mansion
reared by dedal Jack
see the malt
stored in many A refluent sack,
in the proud
cirque of JACKJOHN’S bivouac.
A black crack of noise in the street here, alack,
bawled back. Loud on left Thor thundered:
in anger awful the hammerhurler. Came now the
storm that hist his heart. And Master Lynch bade
him have a care to flout and witwanton as the god
self was angered for his hellprate and paganry.
And he that had erst challenged to be so doughty waxed
wan as they might all mark and shrank together and
his pitch that was before so haught uplift was now
of a sudden quite plucked down and his heart shook