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- 1. My God, how I love Thee!
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- 2. With the vehement appetite of a beast I hunt Thee through the Universe.
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- 3. Thou art standing as it were upon a pinnacle at the edge of some
- fortified city. I am a white bird, and perch upon Thee.
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- 4. Thou art My Lover: I see Thee as a nymph with her white limbs stretched
- by the spring.
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- 5. She lies upon the moss; there is none other but she:
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- 6. Art Thou not Pan?
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- 7. I am He. Speak not, O my God! Let the work be accomplished in silence.
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- 8. Let my cry of pain be crystallized into a little white fawn to run away
- into the forest!
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- 9. Thou art a centaur, O my God, from the violet-blossoms that crown Thee
- to the hoofs of the horse.
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- 10. Thou art harder than tempered steel; there is no diamond beside Thee.
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- 11. Did I not yield this body and soul?
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- 12. I woo thee with a dagger drawn across my throat.
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- 13. Let the spout of blood quench Thy blood-thirst, O my God!
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- 14. Thou art a little white rabbit in the burrow Night.
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- 15. I am greater than the fox and the hole.
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- 16. Give me Thy kisses, O Lord God!
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- 17. The lightning came and licked up the little flock of sheep.
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- 18. There is a tongue and a flame; I see that trident walking over the sea.
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- 19. A phoenix hath it for its head; below are two prongs. They spear the
- wicked.
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- 20. I will spear Thee, O Thou little grey god, unless Thou beware!
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- 21. From the grey to the gold; from the gold to that which is beyond the gold
- of Ophir.
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- 22. My God! but I love Thee!
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- 23. Why hast Thou whispered so ambiguous things? Wast Thou afraid, O goat-
- hoofed One, O horned One, O pillar of lightning?
- 24. From the lightning fall pearls; from the pearls black specks of nothing.
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- 25. I based all on one, one on naught.
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- 26. Afloat in the aether, O my God, my God!
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- 27. O Thou great hooded sun of glory, cut off these eyelids!
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- 28. Nature shall die out; she hideth me, closing mine eyelids with fear, she
- hideth me from My destruction, O Thou open eye.
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- 29. O ever-weeping One!
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- 30. Not Isis my mother, nor Osiris my self; but the incestuous Horus given
- over to Typhon, so may I be!
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- 31. There thought; and thought is evil.
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- 32. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! it is enough.
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- 33. Fall not into death, O my soul! Think that death is the bed into which
- you are falling!
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- 34. O how I love Thee, O my God! Especially is there a vehement parallel
- light from infinity, vilely diffracted in the haze of this mind.
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- 35. I love Thee.
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- I love Thee.
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- I love This.
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- 36. Thou art a beautiful thing whiter than a woman in the column of this
- vibration.
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- 37. I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above.
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- 38. But it is death, and the flame of the pyre.
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- 39. Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my soul! Thy God is like the cold
- emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light.
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- 40. When Thou shall know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in
- Thy great N. O. X.
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- 41. What shalt Thou be, my God, when I have ceased to love Thee?
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- 42. A worm, a nothing, a niddering knave!
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- 43. But Oh! I love Thee.
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- 44. I have thrown a million flowers from the basket of the Beyond at Thy
- feet, I have anointed Thee and Thy Staff with oil and blood and kisses.
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- 45. I have kindled Thy marble into life ay! into death.
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- 46. I have been smitten with the reek of Thy mouth, that drinketh never wine
- but life.
- 47. How the dew of the Universe whitens the lips!
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- 48. Ah! trickling flow of the stars of the mother Supernal, begone!
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- 49. I Am She that should come, the Virgin of all men.
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- 50. I am a boy before Thee, O Thou satyr God.
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- 51. Thou wilt inflict the punishment of pleasure Now! Now! Now!
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- 52. Io Pan! Io Pan! I love Thee. I love Thee.
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- 53. O my God, spare me!
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- 54. Now!
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- It is done! Death.
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- 55. I cried aloud the word and it was a mighty spell to bind the Invisible,
- an enchantment to unbind the bound; yea, to unbind the bound.
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