Shone over him: he bade me not despair.
“The Blood of the Osiris” was his word:
(Meaning the Christ?) “The life, the tears, the tomb!
The Love of Isis is its name!” (I heard
This for the love of Mary.) In her womb
Brews the Elixir, and the roses bloom.
For the Three Maries (so he said) were One:
Three aspects of the mystic spouse of God,
Isis! This pagan! “Look towards the Sun”
(Quoth he) “And seek a winepress to be trod;