THE QUEENSLANDER

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

3 December 1904

(page 30)

LITERATURE.

From “The Argonaut,” a new poem by Aleister Crowley:

I hear the waters faint and far,

And look to where the Polar Star,

Half hidden in the haze, divides

The double chanting of the tides;

But, where the harbour’s gloomy mouth

Welcomes the stranger to the south,

The water shakes, and all the sea

Grows silver suddenly.

As one who standing on the moor

Sees the vast horns in silver hewn,

Himself in darkness, and beholds

How silently all space unfolds

Into her shapeless breast the spark

And sacred phantom of the dark;

So in the harbor-horns I stand

Till I forget the land.