The Hermit poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)

AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT

[Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]

At last an end of all I hoped and feared!

Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard.

Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred.

I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard.

To all God’s questions never a word he said,

But simply shook his venerable head.

God sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not,

Till people certified him insane.

But somehow all his fellow-luntaics

Began to imitate his silly ticks.

And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged

That one by one the patients were discharged.

God asked him by what right he interfered;

He only laughed and into his elfin beard.

When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer

He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire.

Our Hermi had dispensed with Sinai’s thunder,

But on the other hand he made no blunder;

He knew ( no doubt) that any axiom

Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom.

But!-all who urged that hermit to confess

Caught the infection of his happiness.

I would it were my fate to dree his weird;

I think that I will grow an elfin beard.

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