{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos364.htm","path":"bos/bos364.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos364.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\n \n \n \n PAN TO ARTEMIS \n Uncharmable charmer \n Of Bacchus and Mars, \n In the sounding, rebounding \n Abyss of the stars! \n O virgin in armour, \n Thine arrows unsling \n In the brilliant resilient \n First rays of the spring! \n \n By the force of the fashion \n Of love, when I broke \n Through the shroud, through the cloud, \n Through the storm, through the smoke, \n To the mountain of passion \n Volcanic that woke-- \n By the rrage of the mage \n I invoke, I invoke! \n \n By the midnight of madness, \n The lone-lying sea, \n The swoon of the moon, \n Your swoon into me; \n The sentinel sadness \n Of cliff-clinging pine, \n That night of delight \n You were mine, you were mine! \n \n You were mine, O my saint, \n My maiden, my mate, \n By the might of the right \n Of the night of our fate. \n Though I fall, though I faint, \n Though I char, though I choke, \n By the hour of our power \n I invoke, I invoke! \n By the mystical union \n Of fairy and faun, \n Unspoken, unbroken-- \n The dusk to the dawn!-- \n A secret communion, \n Unmeasured, unsung, \n The listless, resistless, \n Tumultuous tongue!-- \n \n O virgin in armour \n Thine arrows unsling, \n In the brilliant resilient \n First rays of the spring! \n No Godhead could charm her, \n But manhood awoke-- \n O fiery Valkyrie, \n I invoke, I invoke! \n \n \n 1848","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Pan To Artemis (Hugh Read)","type":"page"}