Scarlet Muse
This is a song about Crowley's sometime mistress and pet violinist,
Leila Waddell -- as a Thelemic violinist myself, I feel a kinship with
her. She was a muse to him; and now she's my muse too.
- When you were green and love was, too,
and every hour with him a feast
beneath the canopy of night,
when did you see his goddess there?
And as that goddess spoke through you,
and he adored you as a priest,
did you feel ecstasy or fright?
When that Great Beast made you his care,
- he set a curb upon your tongue, but you would not be stilled.
- You didn't need the script he handed you to be fulfilled;
- you needed only Will.
- cho:
- Ringing strings
- spread the news
- in your head
- brilliant hues
- fingers float
- light the fuse
- songs of night
- Scarlet Muse
- The violin sang in your bones,
- a voice that would not be denied.
- As Knight Defender of the Grail,
- you took the bow up like a sword.
- The Angels spoke in overtones,
- the Spheres in sympathy replied.
- The iron of the Passion Nail
- dissolves in blood and wine you poured.
- Mother of Mystery, declare your mind, your will, your heart.
- Sister Scorpio, transmute by your alchemic art
- and take the Eagle's part.
- cho...
©1999 Leigh Ann Hussey
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