object:1f.lovecraft - Poetry and the Gods
author class:H P Lovecraft
subject class:Fiction
genre class:Horror
class:chapter
and Anna Helen Crofts
A damp, gloomy evening in April it was, just after the close of the
Great War, when Marcia found herself alone with strange thoughts and
wishes; unheard-of yearnings which floated out of the spacious
twentieth-century drawing-room, up the misty deeps of the air, and
eastward to far olive-groves in Arcady which she had seen only in her
dreams. She had entered the room in abstraction, turned off the glaring
chandeliers, and now reclined on a soft divan by a solitary lamp which
shed over the reading table a green glow as soothing and delicious as
moonlight through the foliage about an antique shrine. Attired simply,
in a low-cut evening dress of black, she appeared outwardly a typical
product of modern civilisation; but tonight she felt the immeasurable
gulf that separated her soul from all her prosaic surroundings. Was it
because of the strange home in which she lived; that abode of coldness
where relations were always strained and the inmates scarcely more than
strangers? Was it that, or was it some greater and less explicable
misplacement in Time and Space, whereby she had been born too late, too
early, or too far away from the haunts of her spirit ever to harmonise
with the unbeautiful things of contemporary reality? To dispel the mood
which was engulfing her more deeply each moment, she took a magazine
from the table and searched for some healing bit of poetry. Poetry had
always relieved her troubled mind better than anything else, though
many things in the poetry she had seen detracted from the influence.
Over parts of even the sublimest verses hung a chill vapour of sterile
ugliness and restraint, like dust on a window-pane through which one
views a magnificent sunset.
Listlessly turning the magazine’s pages, as if searching for an elusive
treasure, she suddenly came upon something which dispelled her languor.
An observer could have read her thoughts and told that she had
discovered some image or dream which brought her nearer to her
unattained goal than any image or dream she had seen before. It was
only a bit of vers libre, that pitiful compromise of the poet who
overleaps prose yet falls short of the divine melody of numbers; but it
had in it all the unstudied music of a bard who lives and feels, and
who gropes ecstatically for unveiled beauty. Devoid of regularity, it
yet had the wild harmony of winged, spontaneous words; a harmony
missing from the formal, convention-bound verse she had known. As she
read on, her surroundings gradually faded, and soon there lay about her
only the mists of dream; the purple, star-strown mists beyond Time,
where only gods and dreamers walk.
“Moon over Japan,
White butterfly moon!
Where the heavy-lidded Buddhas dream
To the sound of the cuckoo’s call. . . .
The white wings of moon-butterflies
Flicker down the streets of the city,
Blushing into silence the useless wicks of round lanterns in the
hands of girls.
Moon over the tropics,
A white-curved bud
Opening its petals slowly in the warmth of heaven. . . .
The air is full of odours
And languorous warm sounds. . . .
A flute drones its insect music to the night
Below the curving moon-petal of the heavens.
Moon over China,
Weary moon on the river of the sky,
The stir of light in the willows is like the flashing of a thousand
silver minnows
Through dark shoals;
The tiles on graves and rotting temples flash like ripples,
The sky is flecked with clouds like the scales of a dragon.”
Amid the mists of dream the reader cried to the rhythmical stars, of
her delight at the coming of a new age of song, a rebirth of Pan. Half
closing her eyes, she repeated words whose melody lay hid like crystals
at the bottom of a stream before the dawn; hidden but to gleam
effulgently at the birth of day.
“Moon over Japan,
White butterfly moon!
Moon over the tropics,
A white-curved bud
Opening its petals slowly in the warmth of heaven.
The air is full of odours
And languorous warm sounds . . . languorous warm sounds.
Moon over China,
Weary moon on the river of the sky . . . weary moon!”
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Out of the mists gleamed godlike the form of a youth in winged helmet
and sandals, caduceus-bearing, and of a beauty like to nothing on
earth. Before the face of the sleeper he thrice waved the rod which
Apollo had given him in trade for the nine-corded shell of melody, and
upon her brow he placed a wreath of myrtle and roses. Then, adoring,
Hermes spoke:
“O Nymph more fair than the golden-haired sisters of Cyane or the
sky-inhabiting Atlantides, beloved of Aphrodite and blessed of Pallas,
thou hast indeed discovered the secret of the Gods, which lieth in
beauty and song. O Prophetess more lovely than the Sybil of Cumae when
Apollo first knew her, though hast truly spoken of the new age, for
even now on Maenalus, Pan sighs and stretches in his sleep, wishful to
awake and behold about him the little rose-crowned Fauns and the
antique Satyrs. In thy yearning hast thou divined what no mortal else,
saving only a few whom the world rejects, remembereth; that the Gods
were never dead, but only sleeping the sleep and dreaming the dreams of
Gods in lotos-filled Hesperian gardens beyond the golden sunset. And
now draweth nigh the time of their awaking, when coldness and ugliness
shall perish, and Zeus sit once more on Olympus. Already the sea about
Paphos trembleth into a foam which only ancient skies have looked on
before, and at night on Helicon the shepherds hear strange murmurings
and half-remembered notes. Woods and fields are tremulous at twilight
with the shimmering of white saltant forms, and immemorial Ocean yields
up curious sights beneath thin moons. The Gods are patient, and have
slept long, but neither man nor giant shall defy the Gods forever. In
Tartarus the Titans writhe, and beneath the fiery Aetna groan the
children of Uranus and Gaea. The day now dawns when man must answer for
centuries of denial, but in sleeping the Gods have grown kind, and will
not hurl him to the gulf made for deniers of Gods. Instead will their
vengeance smite the darkness, fallacy, and ugliness which have turned
the mind of man; and under the sway of bearded Saturnus shall mortals,
once more sacrificing unto him, dwell in beauty and delight. This night
shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those
dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to earth to shew that they
are not dead. For poets are the dreams of the Gods, and in each age
someone hath sung unknowing the message and the promise from the
lotos-gardens beyond the sunset.”
Then in his arms Hermes bore the dreaming maiden through the skies.
Gentle breezes from the tower of Aiolos wafted them high above warm,
scented seas, till suddenly they came upon Zeus holding court on the
double-headed Parnassus; his golden throne flanked by Apollo and the
Muses on the right hand, and by ivy-wreathed Dionysus and
pleasure-flushed Bacchae on the left hand. So much of splendour Marcia
had never seen before, either awake or in dreams, but its radiance did
her no injury, as would have the radiance of lofty Olympus; for in this
lesser court the Father of Gods had tempered his glories for the sight
of mortals. Before the laurel-draped mouth of the Corycian cave sat in
a row six noble forms with the aspect of mortals, but the countenances
of Gods. These the dreamer recognised from images of them which she had
beheld, and she knew that they were none else than the divine
Maeonides, the Avernian Dante, the more than mortal Shakespeare, the
chaos-exploring Milton, the cosmic Goethe, and the Musaean Keats. These
were those messengers whom the Gods had sent to tell men that Pan had
passed not away, but only slept; for it is in poetry that Gods speak to
men. Then spake the Thunderer:
“O Daughter—for, being one of my endless line, thou art indeed my
daughter—behold upon ivory thrones of honour the august messengers that
Gods have sent down, that in the words and writings of men there may be
still some trace of divine beauty. Other bards have men justly crowned
with enduring laurels, but these hath Apollo crowned, and these have I
set in places apart, as mortals who have spoken the language of the
Gods. Long have we dreamed in lotos-gardens beyond the West, and spoken
only through our dreams; but the time approaches when our voices shall
not be silent. It is a time of awaking and of change. Once more hath
Phaeton ridden low, searing the fields and drying the streams. In Gaul
lone nymphs with disordered hair weep beside fountains that are no
more, and pine over rivers turned red with the blood of mortals. Ares
and his train have gone forth with the madness of Gods, and have
returned, Deimos and Phobos glutted with unnatural delight. Tellus
moans with grief, and the faces of men are as the faces of the Erinyes,
even as when Astraea fled to the skies, and the waves of our bidding
encompassed all the land saving this high peak alone. Amidst this
chaos, prepared to herald his coming yet to conceal his arrival, even
now toileth our latest-born messenger, in whose dreams are all the
images which other messengers have dreamed before him. He it is that we
have chosen to blend into one glorious whole all the beauty that the
world hath known before, and to write words wherein shall echo all the
wisdom and the loveliness of the past. He it is who shall proclaim our
return, and sing of the days to come when Fauns and Dryads shall haunt
their accustomed groves in beauty. Guided was our choice by those who
now sit before the Corycian grotto on thrones of ivory, and in whose
songs thou shalt hear notes of sublimity by which years hence thou
shalt know the greater messenger when he cometh. Attend their voices as
one by one they sing to thee here. Each note shalt thou hear again in
the poetry which is to come; the poetry which shall bring peace and
pleasure to thy soul, though search for it through bleak years thou
must. Attend with diligence, for each chord that vibrates away into
hiding shall appear again to thee after thou hast returned to earth, as
Alpheus, sinking his waters into the soul of Hellas, appears as the
crystal Arethusa in remote Sicilia.”
Then arose Homeros, the ancient among bards, who took his lyre and
chaunted his hymn to Aphrodite. No word of Greek did Marcia know, yet
did the message not fall vainly upon her ears; for in the cryptic
rhythm was that which spake to all mortals and Gods, and needed no
interpreter.
So too the songs of Dante and Goethe, whose unknown words clave the
ether with melodies easy to read and to adore. But at last remembered
accents resounded before the listener. It was the Swan of Avon, once a
God among men, and still a God among Gods:
“Write, write, that from the bloody course of war,
My dearest master, your dear son, may hie;
Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far,
His name with zealous fervour sanctify.”
Accents still more familiar arose as Milton, blind no more, declaimed
immortal harmony:
“Or let thy lamp at midnight hour
Be seen in some high lonely tower,
Where I might oft outwatch the Bear
With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere
The spirit of Plato, to unfold
What worlds or what vast regions hold
Th’ immortal mind, that hath forsook
Her mansion in this fleshly nook.
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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy
In sceptred pall come sweeping by,
Presenting Thebes, or Pelops’ line,
Or the tale of Troy divine.”
Last of all came the young voice of Keats, closest of all the
messengers to the beauteous faun-folk:
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on. . . .
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When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st,
‘Beauty is truth—truth beauty’—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
As the singer ceased, there came a sound in the wind blowing from far
Egypt, where at night Aurora mourns by the Nile for her slain son
Memnon. To the feet of the Thunderer flew the rosy-fingered Goddess,
and kneeling, cried, “Master, it is time I unlocked the gates of the
East.” And Phoebus, handing his lyre to Calliope, his bride among the
Muses, prepared to depart for the jewelled and column-raised Palace of
the Sun, where fretted the steeds already harnessed to the golden car
of day. So Zeus descended from his carven throne and placed his hand
upon the head of Marcia, saying:
“Daughter, the dawn is nigh, and it is well that thou shouldst return
before the awaking of mortals to thy home. Weep not at the bleakness of
thy life, for the shadow of false faiths will soon be gone, and the
Gods shall once more walk among men. Search thou unceasingly for our
messenger, for in him wilt thou find peace and comfort. By his word
shall thy steps be guided to happiness, and in his dreams of beauty
shall thy spirit find all that it craveth.” As Zeus ceased, the young
Hermes gently seized the maiden and bore her up toward the fading
stars; up, and westward over unseen seas.
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Many years have passed since Marcia dreamt of the Gods and of their
Parnassian conclave. Tonight she sits in the same spacious
drawing-room, but she is not alone. Gone is the old spirit of unrest,
for beside her is one whose name is luminous with celebrity; the young
poet of poets at whose feet sits all the world. He is reading from a
manuscript words which none has ever heard before, but which when heard
will bring to men the dreams and fancies they lost so many centuries
ago, when Pan lay down to doze in Arcady, and the greater Gods withdrew
to sleep in lotos-gardens beyond the lands of the Hesperides. In the
subtle cadences and hidden melodies of the bard the spirit of the
maiden has found rest at last, for there echo the divinest notes of
Thracian Orpheus; notes that moved the very rocks and trees by Hebrus’
banks. The singer ceases, and with eagerness asks a verdict, yet what
can Marcia say but that the strain is “fit for the Gods”?
And as she speaks there comes again a vision of Parnassus and the
far-off sound of a mighty voice saying, “By his word shall thy steps be
guided to happiness, and in his dreams of beauty shall thy spirit find
all that it craveth.”
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