XV
Or, an you will, evoke me as the Sphinx
With lion's claws, bull's breast, and eagle's wings!
You are my riddle, and the answer sinks
Below the deep essential base of things,
Rises above the utmost brim of thought
And bubbles over as impatient song.
Yet "We are one" is all, and all is naught;
And this one "one", and "all", and "naught"
The whole content of our imagining, [shall throng
The great arcanum in the adytum hid
From men, and though we varve or kiss or sing,
The Sphinx is dumb, and blind the Pyramid.
—Now our affairs are ordered perfectly.
Give me your mouth, your mouth, and let us die!
With lion's claws, bull's breast, and eagle's wings!
You are my riddle, and the answer sinks
Below the deep essential base of things,
Rises above the utmost brim of thought
And bubbles over as impatient song.
Yet "We are one" is all, and all is naught;
And this one "one", and "all", and "naught"
The whole content of our imagining, [shall throng
The great arcanum in the adytum hid
From men, and though we varve or kiss or sing,
The Sphinx is dumb, and blind the Pyramid.
—Now our affairs are ordered perfectly.
Give me your mouth, your mouth, and let us die!
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