The Book Of Tephi PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...as stands a statue when he touched the new plucked leaf To the withered at my girdle, kneeling still, but still the chief Of my stature, and the crescent which upon my brow had rest Was beneath the leaf he gathered when he set it in his crest. Stark he knelt in homage pleading to my crescent where I stood Icy cold, till some strange Summer thawed away my Winter mood. Weak I grew and blind and dizzy in that newborn Summer drouth, And my hands stayed on his shoulders, and my lips just passed his mouth, And a cry was all about us in the dancing shapes around (3) Moon and sun are met together, and this place is holy ground. My bridegroom, my chosen, my strong one, in whom my soul had delight, My feet were by thine, my hand was in thine, as they led us to plight Our faith by the Stone. My heart was thy heart, My will was thy will, When Sri and the priests spake with us, and bade our souls to fulfil The vow of the lips by vow of the soul and swear with the Soul In sight of the people.and priests and scribes that stood to record Our oath of faith with people and priests and chiefs as a pair That God made first in the land, to have it in heedful care And seek not ourselves but Eriu. The words of that sacred oath Were mine, but I know the Spirit of God had fallen on both For his day of days, being joyous thereat in a waking dream Wherein all faces and garments danced in one sunny stream Of eddying light, one only resting stalwart and tall, For though many great chiefs were round us he stood the first of them all. After that oath I stood calmer, and watched with a careful eye, When the oldest priest of Eriu set in the hands of Sri A vessel of alabaster that once in the Promised Land Was shapen and graved with the names of God by its maker's...