Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Within whose wombs he wonned ; but chased in vain; For the more vanquished he, more power was his. Him, naked ghosts of maddening beauty, lamped By green and glistering gryphons' lidless eyes, Led to alchemic vaults, where sat some seer Great jewels minting, and from the refuse gold, That nought be wasted, rounding royal crowns. The costliest of all treasures, knowledge how Like treasures to produce, he gathered there, Nor cumbered him with perishable proofs. Though by this tempted, and that warned, he took The path of light, instinctive, and was saved. For having fought his way through flood and name, Helped by good dsemons, hindered by the bad, And closed the gates of thunder on the gods Where they in their marmoreal heaven abode, Dark as the hourless mansions of the dead, And tested all things; in the coffined core Of the heaven-wedding pyramid, at last He fainted in perfection; and discerned How sweet was truth, for death in truth was life. In that blest death the gods divided him, And the stars claimed the portions erst their own; They so adored him. World-beloved was he. The sun his head; the starry souls his eyes; His locks redundant asked the watery powers; The living spirit his temples; his strong hand The lord of fate; his bent knee worshipful The goddess of divine life; and his feet The guardian of the destinies of souls. Dear to the bearded serpent, spirit supreme, Whose omnipresent eye approves the world— Eye of the world of life, and nature's soul, Who lapped him in his cold blue coils, and flew Where live the stars: there, mid nocturnal day Where Death's grim orb illumes the restless ghosts, And with his scourge on their own hearts inscribes The tortures of the evils they have done, He, weighed 'gainst Truth, down-dipped the skiey scale. Then...