marquise

<div class="legacy-text">"Uncharmable charmer<br />Of Bacchus and Mars<br />In the sounding rebounding<br />Abyss of the stars!<br />O virgin in armour,<br />Thine arrows unsling<br />In the brilliant resilient<br />First rays of the spring!<br /><br />By the force of the fashion<br />Of love, when I broke<br />Through the shroud, through the cloud,<br />Through the storm, through the smoke,<br />To the mountain of passion<br />Volcanic that woke ---<br />By the rage of the mage<br />I invoke, I invoke!<br /><br />By the midnight of madness: -<br />The lone-lying sea,<br />The swoon of the moon,<br />Your swoon into me,<br />The sentinel sadness<br />Of cliff-clinging pine,<br />That night of delight<br />You were mine, you were mine!<br /><br />You were mine, O my saint,<br />My maiden, my mate,<br />By the might of the right<br />Of the night of our fate.<br />Though I fall, though I faint,<br />Though I char, though I choke,<br />By the hour of our power<br />I invoke, I invoke!<br /><br />By the mystical union<br />Of fairy and faun,<br />Unspoken, unbroken -<br />The dust to the dawn! -<br />A secret communion<br />Unmeasured, unsung,<br />The listless, resistless,<br />Tumultuous tongue! -<br /><br />O virgin in armour,<br />Thine arrows unsling,<br />In the brilliant resilient<br />First rays of the spring!<br />No Godhead could charm her,<br />But manhood awoke -<br />O fiery Valkyrie,<br />I invoke, I invoke!"<br /><br />Pan to Artemis by Aleister Crowley</div>