I am that hawk of gold
Proud in adamantine poise
On the pillars of turquoise,
See, beyond the starry fold,
Where a darkling orb is rolled.
There, beneath a grove of yew,
Plays a babe. Should I despise
Such foam of gold, and eyes
Burning beryline, so blue
That the sun seems peeping through?
Did I swoop, were Heaven amazed?
With my beak I strike but once;
Out there leap a million suns.
Through the universe that blazed
Screams theit light, and death is dazed.
In my womb the babe may leap;
Seek him not within my eye,
Nor demand thou of me why
I should plunge from crystal steep
Like a plummet to the deep.
See yon solitary star
What a world of blackness wraps
Round it! Unimagined gaps.
Let it be. Content thy car
With the voyage to things that are.
Nor, an thou perchance behold
How I plunge and batten on
Earth's exentrate carrion,
Deem turquoise match midden mould
Or deny the Hawk of Gold.
On the pillars of turquoise,
See, beyond the starry fold,
Where a darkling orb is rolled.
There, beneath a grove of yew,
Plays a babe. Should I despise
Such foam of gold, and eyes
Burning beryline, so blue
That the sun seems peeping through?
Did I swoop, were Heaven amazed?
With my beak I strike but once;
Out there leap a million suns.
Through the universe that blazed
Screams theit light, and death is dazed.
In my womb the babe may leap;
Seek him not within my eye,
Nor demand thou of me why
I should plunge from crystal steep
Like a plummet to the deep.
See yon solitary star
What a world of blackness wraps
Round it! Unimagined gaps.
Let it be. Content thy car
With the voyage to things that are.
Nor, an thou perchance behold
How I plunge and batten on
Earth's exentrate carrion,
Deem turquoise match midden mould
Or deny the Hawk of Gold.
(Aleister Crowley)