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: : : 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 ja : : 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. 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