What paths the moon may walk in daylit hours
[color=#fafafa][i]Ah, sky illumined by the smaller spheres![/i][/color]
Be projected ‘pon the supple sphere of Equus
[color=#fafafa][i]The world has slept its turn and now must rise.[/i][/color]
Like traceries of spiderweb about us. As a web,
[color=#fafafa][i]I feel it stirring; now my moment nears![/i][/color]
Whate’er thing may chance to brush a strand, it plays upon’t
[color=#fafafa][i]That orb of flame that never truly dies[/i][/color]
A note both strong and full of portent. As a spider might,
[color=#fafafa][i]But carries my convictions as a sign[/i][/color]
I place my being at the hub, and with the matrix mesh
[color=#fafafa][i]Of my eternal faith and promise true,[/i][/color]
Such tendings I am wont to spare where dreams divide my rest,
[color=#fafafa][i]Continues on its globe-compassing line,[/i][/color]
And thus through subtle strums I shape the Day with daring,
[color=#fafafa][i]And gifts the lands with rosy morning hue.[/i][/color]
And mold the mundane nearer heart’s encompassing desire
[color=#fafafa][i]My power flows in its Celestial ties![/i][/color]
Than fate or Solar influence might deign. She knoweth not
[color=#fafafa][i]The birds and beasts awaken with surmise,[/i][/color]
The full scope of my reach under her bright demesne,
[color=#fafafa][i]And my dear subjects rouse from nightborne guise![/i][/color]
And mayhap ‘tis for the best, for not all synthesis is wise,
[color=#fafafa][i]Let loving light pour through the crimson skies![/i][/color]
And her bright lance, though potent, cleaves much best left atangle.
[color=#fafafa][i]ARISE![/i][/color]
But now the hour doth approach. Hail, Greyswing! Arthrix, Hail!
[color=#fafafa][i]ARISE!![/i][/color]
Do keep to thy good works and guard my bed chamber well.
[color=#fafafa][i]ARISE!!![/i][/color]
Thy mistress under light of dawn is come to take repose;
[color=#fafafa][i][b]ARISE!!![/b][/i][/color]
Let naught disturb me til the Day is done.

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[color=#9900ff]I sought the sacred song to lift the Sun[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]Ah, here, in Moonlit realms, within my dreams,[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]For I must tread wherever knowledge leads,[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]Where stranger logics tear the daylight seams[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]And when the trace eludes me, there I run[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]That guide but constrain reason—Now begun,[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]To ground the million signs the magus reads[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]I grasp elusive lore in dream-webs spun![/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]From world and learned word. But now, undone,[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]The map is not the world; spurn its extremes![/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]I loose my grasp upon the scattered screeds[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]My arts perceive the bold and ancient schemes[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]That seem to mock my purpose. Not a one[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]By which the stars abide, and now, indeed—[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]Gives sign of reasoned steps or fulgent seeds[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]By perseverance prospered, I succeed![/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]That burgeon towards solution. I must shun[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]For deeper ties than friendship run the hours,[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]The warp and woof of words, and by my deeds[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]And passions felt from life inform the powers[/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]Seek deeper threads than black and white reason,[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]That come to me as reason’s highest prize![/i][/color]
[color=#9900ff]And spy the lore that facile truth impedes.[/color]
[color=#fafafa][i]I call upon them now! Arise! ARISE![/i][/color]