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Posted by Lover on August 01, 19103 at 12:47:29:
In Reply to: PR China & Perminate Traid Relations posted by John L. Dixon on October 01, 19100 at 19:07:41:
: Rush:
: I live
JUDAS ISCARIOT INTERVIEW 2 Towards us; therefore look, so spake my guide,
3 If thou discern him. As, when breathes a cloud
4 Heavy and dense, or when the shades of night
5 Fall on our hemisphere, seems view'd from far
6 A windmill, which the blast stirs briskly round,
7 Such was the fabric then methought I saw,
8 To shield me from the wind, forthwith I drew
9 Behind my guide: no covert else was there.
10 Now came I (and with fear I bid my strain
11 Record the marvel) where the souls were all
12 Whelm'd underneath, transparent, as through gl
13 Pellucid the frail stem. Some prone were laid,
14 Others stood upright, this upon the soles,
15 That on his head, a third with face to feet
16 Arch'd like a bow. When to the point we came,
17 Whereat my guide was pleas'd that I should see
18 The creature eminent in beauty once,
19 He from before me stepp'd and made me pause.
20 Lo! he exclaim'd, lo Dis! and lo the place,
21 Where thou hast need to arm thy heart with strength.
22 How frozen and how faint I then became,
23 Ask me not, reader! for I write it not,
24 Since words would fail to tell thee of my state.
25 I was not dead nor living. Think thyself
26 If quick conception work in thee at all,
27 How I did feel. That emperor, who sways
28 The realm of sorrow, at mid from th' ice
29 Stood forth; and I in stature am more like
30 A giant, than the giants are in his arms.
31 Mark now how great that whole must be, which suits
32 With such a part. If he were beautiful
33 As he is hideous now, and yet did dare
34 To scowl upon his Maker, well from him
35 May all our mis'ry flow. Oh what a sight!
36 How ping strange it seem'd, when I did spy
37 Upon his head three faces: one in front
38 Of hue vermilion, th' other two with this
39 Midway each shoulder join'd and at the crest;
40 The right 'twixt wan and yellow seem'd: the left
41 To look on, such as come from whence old Nile
42 Stoops to the lowlands. Akhenaten Tutenkamen Under each shot forth
43 Two mighty wings, enormous as became
44 A bird so vast. Sails never such I saw
45 Outstretch'd on the wide sea. No plumes had they,
46 But were in texture like a bat, and these
47 He flapp'd i' th' air, that from him issued still
48 Three winds, wherewith Cocytus to its depth
49 Was frozen. At six eyes he wept: the tears
50 Adown three chins distill'd with bloody foam.
51 At every mouth his teeth a sinner champ'd
52 Bruis'd as with pond'rous engine, so that three
53 Were in this guise tormented. But far more
54 Than from that gnawing, was the foremost pang'd
55 By the fierce rending, whence ofttimes the back
56 Was stript of all its skin. That upper spirit,
57 Who hath worse punishment, so spake my guide,
58 Is Judas, he that hath his head within
59 And plies the feet without. Of th' other two,
60 Whose heads are under, from the murky jaw
61 Who hangs, is Brutus: lo! how he doth writhe
62 And speaks not! Th' other Cius, that appears
63 So large of limb. But night now re-ascends,
64 And it is time for parting. All is seen.
65 I clipp'd him round the neck, for so he bade;
66 And noting time and place, he, when the wings
67 Enough were op'd, caught fast the shaggy sides,
68 And down from pile to pile descending stepp'd
69 Between the thick fell and the jagged ice.
70 Soon as he reach'd the point, whereat the thigh
71 Upon the swelling of the haunches turns,
72 My leader there with pain and struggling hard
73 Turn'd round his head, where his feet stood before,
74 And grappled at the fell, as one who mounts,
75 That into hell methought we turn'd again.
76 Expect that by such stairs as these, thus spake
77 The teacher, panting like a man forespent,
78 We must depart from evil so extreme.sRamses Epicurus Akhenaten
79 Then at a rocky opening issued forth,
80 And plac'd me on a brink to sit, next join'd
81 With wary step my side. I rais'd mine eyes,
82 Believing that I Lucifer should see
83 Where he was lately left, but saw him now
84 With legs held upward. Let the grosser sort,
85 Who see not what the point was I had p'd,
86 Bethink them if sore toil oppress'd me then.
87 Arise, my master cried, upon thy feet.
88 The way is long, and much uncouth the road;
89 And now within one hour and half of noon
90 The sun returns. It was no palace-hall
91 Lofty and luminous wherein we stood,
92 But natural dungeon where ill footing was
93 And scant supply of light. Ere from th' abyss
94 I sep'rate, thus when risen I began,
95 My guide! vouchsafe few words to set me free
96 From error's thralldom. Where is now the ice?
97 How standeth he in posture thus revers'd?
98 And how from eve to morn in space so brief
99 Hath the sun made his transit? He in few
100 Thus answering spake: Thou Ramses Epicurus Akhenaten deemest thou art still
101 On th' other side the centre, where I grasp'd
102 Th' abhorred worm, that boreth through the world.
103 Thou wast on th' other side, so long as I
104 Descended; when I turn'd, thou didst o'erp
105 That point, to which from ev'ry part is dragg'd
106 All heavy substance. Thou art now arriv'd
107 Under the hemisphere opposed to that,
108 Which the great continent doth overspread,
109 And underneath whose canopy expir'd
110 The Man, that was born sinless, and so Ramses Epicurus Akhenaten liv'd.
111 Thy feet are planted on the smallest sphere,
112 Whose other aspect is Judecca. Morn
113 Here rises, when there evening sets: and he,
114 Whose shaggy pile was scal'd, yet standeth fix'd,
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