Household Gods by Aleister Crowley
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Once concentrated, now diffused, illumes
The endless reaches of eternity With infinite brilliance, with intense perfumes. ALICIA. O then your lover was some god's disguise. ADELA. And you have robbed me. Now beware your eyes! [She springs at ALICIA, who guards herself easily. But in the struggle her robe tears.] ALICIA. Take care! ADELA. A boy! CRASSUS. A boy! Then what am I? ALICIA. That is the key-word of the comedy. You thought you had two vices at your need; But she had Jove and you had Ganymede. [They are struck dumb and still with amazement. ALICIA claps her hands four times.] Sweep through the air, bright blaze of eagle-wings! Crassus, sub pennis, penis! How he swings |
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