Evil Eternal

I adore Thee, King of Evil, By the body you have fashioned In the likeness of a devil By its purity impassioned I adore Thee, King of Evil! I adore Thee, Lord of Malice, By the soul that you have moulded Lovely as a lily-chalice To the sombre sun unfolded I adore Thee, Lord of Malice! By its thirst, the cruel craving For things infinite, unheard-of, Dreams devouring and depraving Songs no God may guess a word of, Songs of crime and songs of craving By the drear eyes of the devil Bleak and sterile as they glitter I adore Thee, King of Evil! With these lips, as dry and glitter As the drear eyes of the devil! I adore Thee, I adore Thee, I abase myself before Thee, By the spells that once awoke the Lust of Chaos I adore Thee, I adore Thee, I invoke Thee! Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues emcompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit Embattled Cold, Imagination's Cramp Now were the Desolation's fain to stamp The congealed Spirit of Man into the pit, Save that, unquenchable because unlit, The love of God burns steady, like a Lamp. It burns! Beyond the sands, beyond the stars. It burns! Beyond the bands, beyond the bars. And so the Expanse of Mystery, veil by veil, Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over The dissolved hear of the amazèd lover- The angel wings upon the Holy Grail!