{"id":2776,"date":"2015-09-19T18:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T18:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2015-10-10T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T16:16:43","slug":"hymn-to-pan-by-aleister-crowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"Hymn to Pan by Aleister Crowley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fauns\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Thrill with lissome lust of the light,
\nO man! My man!
\nCome careering out of the night
\nOf Pan! Io Pan!<\/p>\n

Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea
\nFrom Sicily and from Arcady!<\/p>\n

Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards
\nAnd nymphs and satyrs for thy guards,<\/p>\n

On a milk-white ass, come over the sea
\nTo me, to me,<\/p>\n

Come with Apollo in bridal dress
\n(Spheperdess and pythoness)<\/p>\n

Come with Artemis, silken shod,
\nAnd wash thy white thigh, beautiful God,<\/p>\n

In the moon, of the woods, on the marble mount,
\nThe dimpled dawn of of the amber fount!<\/p>\n

Dip the purple of passionate prayer
\nIn the crimson shrine, the scarlet snare,<\/p>\n

The soul that startles in eyes of blue
\nTo watch thy wantoness weeping through<\/p>\n

The tangled grove, the gnarled bole
\nOf the living tree that is spirit and soul<\/p>\n

And body and brain -come over the sea,
\n(Io Pan ! Io Pan !)
\nDevil or god, to me, to me,
\nMy man! my man!<\/p>\n

Come with trumpets sounding shrill
\nOver the hill!
\nCome with drums low muttering
\nFrom the spring!<\/p>\n

Come with flute and come with pipe!
\nAm I not ripe?<\/p>\n

I, who wait and writhe and wrestle
\nWith air that hath no boughs to nestle<\/p>\n

My body, weary of empty clasp,
\nStrong as a lion, and sharp as an asp-<\/p>\n

Come, O come!
\nI am numb
\nWith the lonely lust of devildom.<\/p>\n

Thrust the sword through the galling fetter,
\nAll devourer, all begetter;<\/p>\n

Give me the sign of the Open Eye
\nAnd the token erect of thorny thigh<\/p>\n

And the word of madness and mystery,
\nO pan! Io Pan!<\/p>\n

Io Pan! Io Pan! Pan Pan! Pan,
\nI am a man:<\/p>\n

Do as thou wilt, as a great god can,
\nO Pan! Io Pan!<\/p>\n

Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! I am awake
\nIn the grip of the snake.<\/p>\n

The eagle slashes with beak and claw;
\nThe gods withdraw:<\/p>\n

The great beasts come, Io Pan! I am borne
\nTo death on the horn
\nOf the Unicorn.<\/p>\n

I am Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan!
\nI am thy mate, I am thy man,<\/p>\n

Goat of thy flock, I am gold , I am god,
\nFlesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod.<\/p>\n

With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks
\nThrough solstice stubborn to equinox.<\/p>\n

And I rave; and I rape and I rip and I rend
\nEverlasting, world without end.<\/p>\n

Mannikin, maiden, maenad, man,
\nIn the might of Pan.
\nIo Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man! My man! Come careering out of the night Of Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[176,177,51,63,226,228],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BLIO-IM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesectofthehornedgod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}