{"id":1014,"date":"2013-07-13T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:00","slug":"03-book-4-canto-02-the-growth-of-the-flame-vol-29-savitri-volume-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/29-savitri-volume-29\/03-book-4-canto-02-the-growth-of-the-flame-vol-29-savitri-volume-29","title":{"rendered":"-03_Book 4 Canto 02 The Growth of the Flame.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"24%\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\" align=\"justify\"><i> <span lang=\"EN-US\">Canto Two<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\" align=\"justify\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">The Growth of the<br \/>\nFlame<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\" align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And giant rivers pacing to vast seas,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A field of creation and spiritual hush,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Silence swallowing life&#8217;s acts into the deeps,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of thought&#8217;s transcendent climb and heavenward leap,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A brooding world of reverie and trance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Filled with the mightiest works of God and man,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Where Nature seemed a dream of the Divine<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And beauty and grace and grandeur had their home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Over her watched millennial influences<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And the deep godheads of a grandiose past<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Looked on her and saw the future&#8217;s godheads come<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As if this magnet drew their powers unseen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Earth&#8217;s brooding wisdom spoke to her still breast;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Mounting from mind&#8217;s last peaks to mate with gods,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Making earth&#8217;s brilliant thoughts a springing-board<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To dive into the cosmic vastnesses,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The knowledge of the thinker and the seer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Saw the unseen and thought the unthinkable,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Opened the enormous doors of the unknown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Rent Man&#8217;s horizons into infinity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A shoreless sweep was lent to the mortal&#8217;s acts,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And art and beauty sprang from the human depths;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nature and soul vied in nobility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Ethics the human keyed to imitate heaven;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The harmony of a rich culture&#8217;s tones<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Refined the sense and magnified its reach<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And taught the soul to soar beyond things known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Inspiring life to greaten and break its bounds,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 359<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aspiring to the Immortal&#8217;s unseen world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Leaving earth&#8217;s safety daring wings of Mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bore her above the trodden fields of thought<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Crossing the mystic seas of the Beyond<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To live on eagle heights near to the Sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">There wisdom sits on her eternal throne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All her life&#8217;s turns led her to symbol doors<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Admitting to secret Powers that were her kin;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adept of truth, initiate of bliss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A mystic acolyte trained in Nature&#8217;s school,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aware of the marvel of created things<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She laid the secrecies of her heart&#8217;s deep muse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Upon the altar of the Wonderful;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her hours were ritual in a timeless fane;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her acts became gestures of sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Invested with a rhythm of higher spheres<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The word was used as a hieratic means<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For the release of the imprisoned spirit<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Into communion with its comrade gods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or it helped to beat out new expressive forms<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of that which labours in the heart of life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Some immemorial Soul in men and things,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Seeker of the Unknown and the Unborn<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Carrying a light from the Ineffable<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To rend the veil of the last mysteries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Intense philosophies pointed earth to heaven<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or on foundations broad as cosmic Space<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Upraised the earth-mind to superhuman heights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Overpassing lines that please the outward eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But hide the sight of that which lives within<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Sculpture and painting concentrated sense<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Upon an inner vision&#8217;s motionless verge,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Revealed a figure of the invisible,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Unveiled all Nature&#8217;s meaning in a form,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or caught into a body the Divine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The architecture of the Infinite&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 360<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Discovered here its inward-musing shapes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Captured into wide breadths of soaring stone:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Music brought down celestial yearnings, song<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Linking the human with the cosmic cry;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The world-interpreting movements of the dance<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Moulded idea and mood to a rhythmic sway<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And posture; crafts minute in subtle lines<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Eternised a swift moment&#8217;s memory<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or showed in a carving&#8217;s sweep, a cup&#8217;s design<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The underlying patterns of the unseen:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Poems in largeness cast like moving worlds<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And metres surging with the ocean&#8217;s voice<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Translated by grandeurs locked in Nature&#8217;s heart<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But thrown now into a crowded glory of speech<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The beauty and sublimity of her forms,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The passion of her moments and her moods<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lifting the human word near to the god&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Man&#8217;s eyes could look into the inner realms;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">His scrutiny discovered number&#8217;s law<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And organised the motions of the stars,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Mapped out the visible fashioning of the world,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Questioned the process of his thoughts or made<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A theorised diagram of mind and life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These things she took in as her nature&#8217;s food,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But these alone could fill not her wide Self:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A human seeking limited by its gains,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To her they seemed the great and early steps<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hazardous of a young discovering spirit<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Which saw not yet by its own native light;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It tapped the universe with testing knocks<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or stretched to find Truth-mind&#8217;s divining rod;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<span lang=\"EN-US\"> growing out there was to numberless sides,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But not the widest seeing of the soul,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Not yet the vast direct immediate touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nor yet the art and wisdom of the Gods.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 361<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A boundless knowledge greater than man&#8217;s thought,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A happiness too high for heart and sense<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Locked in the world and yearning for release<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She felt in her; waiting as yet for form,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It asked for objects around which to grow<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And natures strong to bear without recoil<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The splendour of her native royalty,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her greatness and her sweetness and her bliss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her might to possess and her vast power to love:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Earth made a stepping-stone to conquer heaven,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The soul saw beyond heaven&#8217;s limiting boundaries,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Met a great light from the Unknowable<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And dreamed of a transcendent action&#8217;s sphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aware of the universal Self in all<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She turned to living hearts and human forms;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her soul&#8217;s reflections, complements, counterparts,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The close outlying portions of her being<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Divided from her by walls of body and mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yet to her spirit bound by ties divine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Overcoming invisible hedge and masked defence<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And the loneliness that separates soul from soul,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She wished to make all one immense embrace<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">That she might house in it all living things<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Raised into a splendid point of seeing light<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Out of division&#8217;s dense inconscient cleft,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And make them one with God and world and her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Only a few responded to her call:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Still fewer felt the screened divinity<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And strove to mate its godhead with their own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Approaching with some kinship to her heights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Uplifted towards luminous secrecies<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or conscious of some splendour hidden above<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They leaped to find her in a moment&#8217;s flash,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Glimpsing a light in a celestial vast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But could not keep the vision and the power<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And fell back to life&#8217;s dull ordinary tone.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 362<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A mind daring heavenly experiment,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Growing towards some largeness they felt near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Testing the unknown&#8217;s bound with eager touch<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They still were prisoned by their human grain:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They could not keep up with her tireless step;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Too small and eager for her large-paced will,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Too narrow to look with the unborn Infinite&#8217;s gaze<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Their nature weary grew of things too great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">For even the close partners of her thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Who could have walked the nearest to her ray,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Worshipped the power and light they felt in her<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But could not match the measure of her soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A friend and yet too great wholly to know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She walked in their front towards a greater light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">One close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Admiring and amazed they saw her stride<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Attempting with a godlike rush and leap<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Heights for their human stature too remote<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or with a slow great many-sided toil<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Pushing towards aims they hardly could conceive;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yet forced to be the satellites of her sun<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They moved unable to forego her light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Desiring they clutched at her with outstretched hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or followed stumbling in the paths she made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or longing with their self of life and flesh<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They clung to her for heart&#8217;s nourishment and support:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The rest they could not see in visible light;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Vaguely they bore her inner mightiness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or bound by the senses and the longing heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adoring with a turbid human love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They could not grasp the mighty spirit she was<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or change by closeness to be even as she.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Some felt her with their souls and thrilled with her;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A greatness felt near yet beyond mind&#8217;s grasp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To see her was a summons to adore,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 363<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To be near her drew a high communion&#8217;s force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">So men worship a god too great to know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They feel a Presence and obey a might,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adore a love whose rapture invades their breasts;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To a divine ardour quickening the heart-beats,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A law they follow greatening heart and life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Opened to a breath is a new diviner air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Opened to man is a freer, happier world:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">He sees high steps climbing to Self and Light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her divine parts the soul&#8217;s allegiance called:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It saw, it felt, it knew the deity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her will was puissant on their nature&#8217;s acts,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her heart&#8217;s inexhaustible sweetness lured their hearts,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A being they loved whose bounds exceeded theirs;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her measure they could not reach but bore her touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Answering with the flower&#8217;s answer to the sun<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They gave themselves to her and asked no more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">One greater than themselves, too wide for their ken,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Their minds could not understand nor wholly know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Their lives replied to hers, moved at her words:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They felt a godhead and obeyed a call,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Answered to her lead and did her work in the world;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Their lives, their natures moved compelled by hers<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As if the truth of their own larger selves<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Put on an aspect of divinity<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To exalt them to a pitch beyond their earth&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They felt a larger future meet their walk;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They were moved by her towards great unknown things,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Faith drew them and the joy to feel themselves hers;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They lived in her, they saw the world with her eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Some turned to her against their nature&#8217;s bent;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Divided between wonder and revolt,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Drawn by her charm and mastered by her will,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Possessed by her, her striving to possess,&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 364<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Impatient subjects, their tied longing hearts<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Murmured at a yoke they would have wept to lose,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The splendid yoke of her beauty and her love:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Others pursued her with life&#8217;s blind desires<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And claiming all of her as their lonely own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Hastened to engross her sweetness meant for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As earth claims light for its lone separate need,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Demanding her for their sole jealous clasp<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They asked from her movements bounded like their own<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And to their smallness craved a like response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or they repined that she surpassed their grip,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And hoped to bind her close with longing&#8217;s cords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or finding her touch desired too strong to bear<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They blamed her for a tyranny they loved,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Shrank into themselves as from too bright a sun,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yet hankered for the splendour they refused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Angrily enamoured of her sweet passionate ray<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The weakness of their earth could hardly bear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They longed but cried out at the touch desired<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Inapt to meet divinity so close,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Intolerant of a Force they could not house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Some drawn unwillingly by her divine sway<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Endured it like a sweet but alien spell,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Unable to mount to levels too sublime<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They yearned to draw her down to their own earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or forced to centre round her their passionate lives<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They hoped to bind to their heart&#8217;s human needs<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her glory and grace that had enslaved their souls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-indent: 25px;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But mid this world, these hearts that answered her call,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">None could stand up her equal and her mate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In vain she stooped to equal them with her heights,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Too pure that air was for small souls to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">These comrade selves to raise to her own wide breadths<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her heart desired and filled with her own power&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 365<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">That a diviner Force might enter life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A breath of Godhead greaten human time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Although she leaned down to their littleness<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Covering their lives with her strong passionate hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And knew by sympathy their needs and wants<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And dived in the shallow wave-depths of their lives<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And met and shared their heart-beats of grief and joy<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And bent to heal their sorrow and their pride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Lavishing the might that was hers on her lone peak<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">To lift to it their aspiration&#8217;s cry,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And though she drew their souls into her vast<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And surrounded with the silence of her deeps<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And held as the great Mother holds her own,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Only her earthly surface bore their charge<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And mixed its fire with their mortality:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her greater self lived sole, unclaimed, within.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Oftener in dumb Nature&#8217;s stir and peace<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A nearness she could feel serenely one;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Force in her drew earth&#8217;s subhuman broods;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And to her spirit&#8217;s large and free delight<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">She joined the ardent-hued magnificent lives<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Of animal and bird and flower and tree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">They answered to her with the simple heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In man a dim disturbing somewhat lives;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It knows but turns away from divine Light<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Preferring the dark ignorance of the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Among the many who came drawn to her<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Nowhere she found her partner of high tasks,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The comrade of her soul, her other self<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Who was made with her, like God and Nature, one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Some near approached, were touched, caught fire, then<br \/>\nfailed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Too great was her demand, too pure her force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Thus lighting earth around her like a sun,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yet in her inmost sky an orb aloof,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A distance severed her from those most close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Puissant, apart her soul as the gods live.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 366<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-indent: 25px;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As yet unlinked with the broad human scene,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In a small circle of young eager hearts,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her being&#8217;s early school and closed domain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Apprentice in the business of earth-life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\nShe schooled her heavenly strain to bear its touch,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Content in her little garden of the gods<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">As blossoms a flower in an unvisited place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nwide world know not yet the inhabitant flame,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Yet something deeply stirred and dimly knew;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">There was a movement and a passionate call,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A rainbow dream, a hope of golden change;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Some secret wing of expectation beat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A growing sense of something new and rare<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And beautiful stole across the heart of Time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Then a faint whisper of her touched the soil,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Breathed like a hidden need the soul divines;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The eye of the great world discovered her,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A wonder lifted up its bardic voice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\nA key to a Light still kept in being&#8217;s core,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The sun-word of an ancient mystery&#8217;s sense,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Exalted and sweet like an inspired verse<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Struck from the epic lyre of rumour&#8217;s winds<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Or sung like a chanted thought by the poet Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But like a sacred symbol&#8217;s was that cult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Admired, unsought, intangible to the grasp<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her beauty and flaming strength were seen afar<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Like lightning playing with the fallen day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A glory unapproachably divine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">No equal heart came close to join her heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">No transient earthly love assailed her calm,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">No hero passion had the strength to seize;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">No eyes demanded her replying eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A Power within her awed the imperfect flesh;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The self-protecting genius in our clay<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Divined the goddess in the woman&#8217;s shape&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\" lang=\"EN-US\">Page \u2013 367<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And drew back from a touch beyond its kind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The earth-nature bound in the sense-life&#8217;s narrow make.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The hearts of men are amorous of clay-kin<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">And bear not spirits lone and high who bring<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Fire-intimations from the deathless planes<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Too vast for souls not born to mate with heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Whoever is too great must lonely live,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Adored he walks in mighty solitude;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Vain is his labour to create his kind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">His only comrade is the Strength within.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Thus was it for a while with Savitri,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">All worshipped marvellingly, none dared to claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her mind sat high pouring its golden beams,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Her heart was a crowded temple of delight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A single lamp lit in perfection&#8217;s house,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A bright pure image in a priestless shrine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Midst those encircling lives her spirit dwelt,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Apart in herself until her hour of fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span lang=\"EN-US\">End of Canto Two&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" 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