have trod Unto the shrine of the most obscene god, So steep the pathway is, I may not know, Until I reach the summit where I go. Crowley was highly impressed by Neuburg's poetic ability: ...in the next few years he produced some of the finest poetry of which the English language can boast. He had an extraordinary delicacy of rhythm, an unrivalled sense of perception, a purity and intensity of passion second to none, and a remarkable command of the English language. Back in London, Neuburg showed potential as a dancer, so Crowley gave him a leading role in his proto-performance art pieces Rites of Eleusis. Neuburg also pursued a doomed relationship with the actress Ione de Forest, who committed suicide shortly after their break-up. In 1913 Crowley and Neuburg again joined forces in a sexual ritual magic operation known as "the Paris Working". Neuburg appears to have broken with Crowley some time in 1914, before Crowley left on an extended tour of the United States. Neuburg may have suffered a nervous breakdown. According to one of Crowley's biographers, Lawrence Sutin, Crowley used anti-Semitic epithets to bully Neuburg: "Crowley leveled numerous brutal verbal attacks on Neuburg's family and Jewish ancestry ...". In 1930 Crowley wrote of Neuburg: A sausage-lipped songster of Steyning Was solemnly bent on attaining But he broke all the rules About managing tools And so broke down in the training. The Vine Press and "The Poet's Corner" From 1916 Neuburg served in the British Army. After the end of the First World War he moved to Steyning in Sussex, where he ran a small press, the Vine Press. In 1920 he published a collection of ballads and other verse under the title Lillygay. Many of these were adapted from earlier ballad collections. In 1923 Peter Warlock set five of these verses to music under the same title. From 1933 onwards Neuburg edited a section called "The Poet's Corner" in a British newspaper, the Sunday Referee. Here he encouraged new talent by awarding weekly prizes. One prize went to the then-unknown Dylan Thomas and the publisher of the Sunday Referee sponsored Thomas's first book, 18 Poems. Later life Neuburg married Kathleen Rose Goddard in 1921, but the marriage eventually broke up. They had a son, Victor Edward Neuburg (1924–1996), who became a writer on English literature. Neuburg later started a relationship with Runia Tharpe, and moved to