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JAQUI’'S INITIATION

Say it three times, "I am a Witch"

And the gods will hear you and make it be so.

Gaze in the mirror and watch it happen.

No-one out on the street will know

But the flowering may will be friends with you

And the stars will shine for you, sisterlike.

MOTHER DAMNABLE

I will not be noticed.

I will go where a mouse can go.

I will come like lichen.

I will leave like snow.

And on holy days,

Lower your priest-entrammeled eye;

You may not see, you shall not see

Us witches rabbiting through the sky.

HALLOWEEN

Hierarchs hard as hitching posts

In a circle round the Lamb,

Copes all stiff with English work

Really? I don't give a damn.

Merrily, merrily ring the bells

Out of the merry village spire.

Lets go down to the bramble wood

And look for faces in the fire.

Jesus has a robe of purple,

On his head a crown of thorns.

All our master wears is winter,

Nothing on his head but horns.

Stars that clink at wrist and ankle

That is how the midnight sounds.

No-one here will get to bed

Before the milkman starts his rounds.

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