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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: Jonah - Christmas 1917 - - -Author: Aldous Huxley - - - -Release Date: July 20, 2020 [eBook #62709] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JONAH*** - - -E-text prepared by Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books -Library Project (http://books.google.com) and generously made available by -HathiTrust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/) - - - -Note: Images of the original pages are available through - HathiTrust Digital Library. See - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2528263 - - - - - -JONAH - -Christmas -1917 - - -[Illustration] - - - - - - -Printed at the Holywell Press, Oxford. - - - - -JONAH. - - - A cream of phospherescent light - Floats on the wash that to and fro - Slides round his feet—enough to show - Many a pendulous stalactite - Of naked mucus, whorls and wreaths - And huge festoons of mottled tripes, - With smaller palpitating pipes - Through which some yeasty liquor seethes. - - Seated upon the convex mound - Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays - And sings his canticles and hymns, - Making the hollow vault resound - God’s goodness and mysterious ways, - Till the great fish spouts music as he swims. - - - - -BEHEMOTH. - - - His eyes are little rutilant stones - Sunk in black basalt; scale by scale - Men count the wealth of silver mail - That laps his flesh and iron bones. - And from his navel, deep and wide - As an old Cyclops’ drinking-bowl, - Spring those stout nerves of twisted hide - That are his life and strength and soul. - - Basking his belly, fast asleep - He sprawls on the warm shingle bank; - And the bold Ethiops come and creep - Along his polished heaving flank, - And in his navel brew their wine - And drink vast strength and grow divine. - - - - -MINOAN PORCELAIN. - - - Her eyes of bright unwinking glaze - All imperturbable do not - Even make pretences to regard - The jutting absence of her stays - Where many a Tyrian gallipot - Excites desire with spilth of nard. - The bistred rims above the fard - Of cheeks as red as bergamot - Attest that no shamefaced delays - Will clog fulfilment nor retard - Full payment of the Cyprian’s praise - Down to the last remorseful jot. - Hail! priestess of we know not what - Strange cult of Mycenean days. - - - - -ZOO CELESTE. - - - Au coin le plus obscur du jardin des déesses - Dort le Singe Idéal, dont les immenses fesses - Etalent de l’Azur les éblouissements. - Une Négresse allaite un troupeau d’éléphants, - Mignons d’Olympe, dont la trompe au pâles lèvres - S’enivre d’un lait noir et qui donne les fièvres - Puis, abreuvés ils vont, balançant sur le dos - Le haut machicoulis fantasque des châteaux - D’ivoire et de jadis, broûter dans la prairie. - Des baleines de cuir, rêvant sur l’eau fleurie, - Font jaillir le cristal tournoyant de leur trombe, - Qui monte vers le ciel, se lasse, puis retombe - Avec un clapotis sonore de tambour - Sur les lotus gonflés de parfums et d’amour - Comme les chairs en feu de l’Anadyomène. - Voici, sur l’or de la plage qui se promène - Béhémot: et dans l’air voici le Roc géant, - Qui pond de temps à autre au giron du néant - De nouveaux univers complets, chacun garni - D’un petit Tout-Puissant qui se croit infini. - - - - -SONNET A L’INGENUE. - - - Tout en martyrisant les divines mandores - Du mensonge sacré des mots, je songe, ôsi - Nonchalamment belle! à ta voix de colibri: - Avec ta triste voix de colibri tu dores - Toute imbécillité qu’exhale les landores - Dans leurs meurtres de sens à jamais aboli; - Inconsciente, tu perces le coeur ravi, - Où je ne puis qu’à peine ouvrir un peu les stores. - - Péniblement de mes bouquins moisis j’évoque - L’esprit mystique et frais de la Sainte Alacocque; - Mais sans verve pour moi saigne le Sacré Coeur. - Tu parles, et ta voix de petite ingénue - Imite un Séraphin, cul nu sur une nue, - Louant Dieu de son psaume infiniment moqueur. - - - - -DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE. - - - Temple d’Amours passés, ton style rococo - Rappelle tristement le rire d’un gai âge. - Sur ton autel discret les belles de Watteau - Vouaient leur vierge offrande, onzième pucelage. - - Derrière tes volets, les beaux après-midis, - Elles out dénoué leur friponne ceinture, - Avec ménagement goûtant le paradis - Pour peur de violer leur chaste chevelure. - - Mais, Temple, maintenant te voilà négligé; - Car aucun pied furtif ne sonne sur tes dalles, - Et dans l’Alcôve froid, restes de volupté, - Poussent lubriquement de gros amorphophalles. - - - - -HOMMAGE A JULES LAFORGUE. - - - Que je t’aime, mon cher Laforgue, - Frère qui connais les nostalgies - Qu’engendrent les sanglots des violons; - Et puis, dans la rue, les pâmoisons - Crépusculaires des orgues—des orgues - D’une par trop lointaine Barbarie.— - O ciel, tu les as senties - Percer ton coeur de Bon Breton! - - Tu avais la solitude dans l’âme: - Orphelin par ton génie, - Tu n’as jamais trouvé la femme - Qui pourrait être l’Unique Amie. - - Parmi les parfums et les frou-frous, - Malgré toi ta chair est restée pure, - Et tu en as devenu presque fou; - Tu pensais, tu étais un Hors-Nature. - - Hélas, il faut que l’on vivote - Selon la Nature et le père Aristote; - Mais c’était une bien autre loi - Que nous suivions, toi et moi. - Vois-tu, mon pauvre Jules, - Nous nous sommes faits assez ridicules. - - - - -SENTENTIOUS SONG. - - - God’s in his Heaven:—He never issues - (Wise man!) to visit this world of ours. - Unchecked the cancer gnaws our tissues, - Stops to lick chops and then again devours. - - They find who most delight to roam - ’Mid castles of remotest Spain - There’s luckily no place like home, - And so they start upon their travels again. - - Beauty for some provides escape, - Who gain a happiness in eyeing - The gorgeous buttocks of the ape - Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. - - Some swoon before the uplifted Host, - Or gazing on their navels find - Both Father, Son and Holy Ghost - In that small Ark of Ecstasy confined. - - And some to better worlds than this - Mount up on wings as frail and misty - As passion’s all-too-transient kiss, - (Though afterwards—oh, omne animal triste!) - - But I, too rational by half - To live but where I bodily am, - Can only do my best to laugh, - Can only sip my misery dram by dram. - - While happier mortals take to drink, - A dolorous dipsomaniac, - Fuddled with grief I sit and think, - Looking upon the bile when it is black. - - _Chorus, in unison._ - - Then brim the bowl with atrabilious liquor! - We’ll pledge our Empire vast across the flood; - For Blood, as all men know, than Water’s thicker, - But water’s wider, thank the Lord, than Blood. - - - - -THE OXFORD VOLUNTEERS. - - - The volunteers in vomit-colour - Go forth to shoot the Lamb of God. - Their leaden faces redden to a blazing comet-colour - And they sweat as they plod. - - Parson and Poet Laureate, - Professor, Grocer, Don— - This one as fat as Ehud, that (poor dear!) would grow the more he ate, - Yet more a skeleton. - - Some have piles and some have goitres, - Most of them have Bright’s disease, - Uric acid has made them flaccid and one gouty hero loiters, - Anchylosed in toes and knees. - - ’Tis Duty drags their aching carrion - Through the rain and through the mud. - England calls! From Windsor walls sounds the once Coburgian clarion, - Screaming: Empire, Home and Blood! - - - - -THE CONTEMPLATIVE SOUL. - - - Fathoms from sight and hearing, - Where seas are blind and deaf. - My soul like a fish goes steering - Her fabulous gargoyle nef: - - Her nef of silver and mouldering - Mother-of-pearl with eyes - Of bulging coral smouldering - Down dim green galleries. - - To climb the brightening ladder - Of layer on layer of the sea - She dare not; her swimming-bladder - Would burst in the ecstasy - - Of sunlight and windy motion, - White moons and the sky’s red gates. - Still in the depth of ocean - She sits and contemplates. - - - - -THE BETROTHAL OF PRIAPUS. - - - Dark water: the moonless side of the trees: - The Dog-Star sweating in the roses: Mind - Heat-curdled to sheer flesh. For ease - And the sake of coolness, having dined, - - I loose a button, wrench a stud. - We belch to the tune of drunk Moselle. - What a noise in the temples—hammering blood. - Shall we sit down? Are we altogether well? - - ‘How weedily the river exhales!’ - ‘Like the smell of caterpillar’s dung.’ - ‘You too collected?’ ‘When I was young, - But used no camphor; Moth prevails - - Over moths, you take me.’ Sounding close, - But God knows where, two landrails scrape - Nails on combs. Her hair is loose, - One tendril astray upon the nape - - Of a neck which star-revealed is white - Like an open-eyed tobacco-flower— - Frail thurible that fills the night - With the subtle intoxicating power - - Of summer perfume. And you too— - Your scent intoxicates; the smell - Of clothes, of hair, the essence of you. - But for the ferments of Moselle. - - I’ld swoon in the languor of your perfume, - In the drowsed delicious contemplation - Of a neck seen palely through the gloom. - Another hideous eructation.— - - And I wake, distressingly aware - That there are uglier things in life - Than perfumed stars and women’s hair.— - Action, then, action! will you be my wife? - - - - -FAREWELL TO THE MUSES. - - - My typewriter has been writing crookedly - For a very considerable time; - It is so hard to write in metre and rhyme - With a typewriter that writes crookedly. - Lines should look clean and decent to the eye, - And mine have ceased to do so; and so that is why - I am ceasing to be a poet.... - Because my typewriter writes so exacerbatingly, - So distressingly crookedly. - - - -***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JONAH*** - - -******* This file should be named 62709-0.txt or 62709-0.zip ******* - - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/2/7/0/62709 - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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