{"id":1020,"date":"2013-07-13T01:32:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:03","slug":"05-book-4-canto-04-the-quest-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\/05-book-4-canto-04-the-quest-vol-29-savitri-volume-29","title":{"rendered":"-05_Book 4 Canto 04 The Quest.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<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\"><i>Canto Four<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\">\n      <span><font size=\"4\">The Quest<\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nworld-ways opened before Savitri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At<br \/>\nfirst a strangeness of new brilliant scenes<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Peopled<br \/>\nher mind and kept her body&#8217;s gaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But<br \/>\nas she moved across the changing earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\ndeeper consciousness welled up in her:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\ncitizen of many scenes and climes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Each<br \/>\nsoil and country it has made its home;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">It<br \/>\ntook all clans and peoples for her own,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Till<br \/>\nthe whole destiny of mankind was hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">These<br \/>\nunfamiliar spaces on her way<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Were<br \/>\nknown and <span class=\"SpellE\">neighbours<\/span> to a sense within;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Landscapes<br \/>\nrecurred like lost forgotten fields,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Cities<br \/>\nand rivers and plains her vision claimed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Like<br \/>\nslow-recurring memories in front,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nstars at night were her past&#8217;s brilliant friends,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nwinds murmured to her of ancient things<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nshe met nameless comrades loved by her once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All<br \/>\nwas a part of old forgotten selves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Vaguely<br \/>\nor with a flash of sudden hints<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her<br \/>\nacts recalled a line of bygone power,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Even<br \/>\nher motion&#8217;s purpose was not new:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><span class=\"SpellE\">Traveller<\/span> to a prefigured high<br \/>\nevent,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She<br \/>\nseemed to her remembering witness soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\ntrace again a journey often made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nguidance turned the dumb revolving wheels<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nin the eager body of their speed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\ndim-masked hooded godheads rode who move<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Assigned<br \/>\nto man immutably from his birth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Receivers<br \/>\nof the inner and outer law,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At<br \/>\nonce the agents of his spirit&#8217;s will<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwitnesses and executors of his fate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 377<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Inexorably<br \/>\nfaithful to their task,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nhold his nature&#8217;s sequence in their guard<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Carrying<br \/>\nthe unbroken thread old lives have spun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Attendants<br \/>\non his destiny&#8217;s measured walk<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Leading<br \/>\nto joys he has won and pains he has called,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Even<br \/>\nin his casual steps they intervene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Nothing<br \/>\nwe think or do is void or vain;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Each<br \/>\nis an energy loosed and holds its course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nshadowy keepers of our deathless past<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Have<br \/>\nmade our fate the child of our own acts,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nfrom the furrows <span class=\"SpellE\">laboured<\/span> by<br \/>\nour will<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">We<br \/>\nreap the fruit of our forgotten deeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But<br \/>\nsince unseen the tree that bore this fruit<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwe live in a present born from an unknown past,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nseem but parts of a mechanic Force,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To a<br \/>\nmechanic mind tied by earth&#8217;s laws;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Yet<br \/>\nare they instruments of a Will supreme,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Watched<br \/>\nby a still all-seeing Eye above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nprescient architect of Fate and Chance<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Who<br \/>\nbuilds our lives on a foreseen design<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nmeaning knows and consequence of each step<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwatches the inferior stumbling powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Upon<br \/>\nher silent heights she was aware<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Of a<br \/>\ncalm Presence throned above her brows<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Who<br \/>\nsaw the goal and chose each fateful curve;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">It<br \/>\nused the body for its pedestal,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\neyes that wandered were its searchlight fires,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nhands that held the reins its living tools;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All<br \/>\nwas the working of an ancient plan,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nway prepared by an unerring Guide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Across<br \/>\nwide <span class=\"SpellE\">noons<\/span> and glowing<br \/>\nafternoons,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She<br \/>\nmet with Nature and with human forms<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nlistened to the voices of the world;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Driven<br \/>\nfrom within she followed her long road,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Mute<br \/>\nin the luminous cavern of her heart,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Like<br \/>\na bright cloud through the resplendent day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 378<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At<br \/>\nfirst her path ran far through peopled tracts:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Admitted<br \/>\nto the lion eye of States<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ntheatres of the loud act of man,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her<br \/>\ncarven chariot with its fretted wheels<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Threaded<br \/>\nthrough clamorous marts and sentinel towers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Past<br \/>\nfigured gates and high dream-sculptured fronts<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ngardens hung in the sapphire of the skies,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Pillared<br \/>\nassembly halls with <span class=\"SpellE\">armoured<\/span><br \/>\nguards,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Small<br \/>\nfanes where one calm Image watched man&#8217;s life<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ntemples hewn as if by exiled gods<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\nimitate their lost eternity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Often<br \/>\nfrom gilded dusk to argent dawn<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where<br \/>\njewel-lamps flickered on frescoed walls<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nthe stone lattice stared at moonlit boughs,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Half-conscious<br \/>\nof the tardy listening night<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Dimly<br \/>\nshe glided between banks of sleep<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At<br \/>\nrest in the slumbering palaces of kings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Hamlet<br \/>\nand village saw the fate-<span class=\"SpellE\">van<\/span><br \/>\npass,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Homes<br \/>\nof a life bent to the soil it ploughs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">For<br \/>\nsustenance of its short and passing days<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That,<br \/>\ntransient, keep their old repeated course<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Unchanging<br \/>\nin the circle of a sky<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Which<br \/>\nalters not above our mortal toil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Away<br \/>\nfrom this thinking creature&#8217;s burdened hours<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\nfree and griefless spaces now she turned<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Not<br \/>\nyet perturbed by human joys and fears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Here<br \/>\nwas the childhood of <span class=\"SpellE\">primeval<\/span><br \/>\nearth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Here<br \/>\ntimeless musings large and glad and still,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Men<br \/>\nhad forborne as yet to fill with cares,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Imperial<br \/>\nacres of the eternal <span class=\"SpellE\">sower<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwind-stirred grass-lands winking in the sun:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nmid green musing of woods and rough-browed hills,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In<br \/>\nthe grove&#8217;s <span class=\"SpellE\">murmurous<\/span> bee-air<br \/>\nhumming wild<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\npast the long lapsing voice of silver floods<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Like<br \/>\na swift hope journeying among its dreams<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Hastened<br \/>\nthe chariot of the golden bride.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 379<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Out<br \/>\nof the world&#8217;s immense <span class=\"SpellE\">unhuman<\/span><br \/>\npast<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Tract-memories<br \/>\nand ageless remnants came,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Domains<br \/>\nof light <span class=\"SpellE\">enfeoffed<\/span> to<br \/>\nan antique calm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Listened<br \/>\nto the unaccustomed sound of hooves<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nlarge immune entangled silences<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Absorbed<br \/>\nher into emerald secrecy<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nslow hushed wizard nets of faery bloom<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Environed<br \/>\nwith their <span class=\"SpellE\">coloured<\/span><br \/>\nsnare her wheels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nstrong importunate feet of Time fell soft<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Along<br \/>\nthese lonely ways, his titan pace<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Forgotten<br \/>\nand his stark and ruinous rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\ninner ear that listens to solitude,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Leaning<br \/>\nself-rapt unboundedly could hear<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nrhythm of the <span class=\"SpellE\">intenser<\/span><br \/>\nwordless Thought<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That<br \/>\ngathers in the silence behind life,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nthe low sweet inarticulate voice of earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In<br \/>\nthe great passion of her sun-kissed trance<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Ascended<br \/>\nwith its yearning undertone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Afar<br \/>\nfrom the brute noise of clamorous needs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nquieted all-seeking mind could feel,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At<br \/>\nrest from its blind <span class=\"SpellE\">outwardness<\/span><br \/>\nof will,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nunwearied clasp of her mute patient love<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nknow for a soul the mother of our forms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">This<br \/>\nspirit stumbling in the fields of sense,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">This<br \/>\ncreature bruised in the mortar of the days<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Could<br \/>\nfind in her broad spaces of release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Not<br \/>\nyet was a world all occupied by care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nbosom of our mother kept for us still<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her<br \/>\naustere regions and her musing depths,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her<br \/>\nimpersonal reaches lonely and inspired<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nthe <span class=\"SpellE\">mightinesses<\/span> of her<br \/>\nrapture haunts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Muse-lipped<br \/>\nshe nursed her symbol mysteries<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nguarded for her pure-eyed sacraments<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nvalley-clefts between her breasts of joy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her<br \/>\nmountain-altars for the fires of dawn<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nnuptial beaches where the ocean couched&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 380<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nthe huge chanting of her prophet woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Fields<br \/>\nhad she of her solitary mirth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Plains<br \/>\nhushed and happy in the embrace of light,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Alone<br \/>\nwith the cry of birds and hue of flowers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwildernesses of wonder lit by her moons<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ngrey seer-evenings kindling with the stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ndim movement in the night&#8217;s infinitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">August,<br \/>\nexulting in her Maker&#8217;s eye,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She<br \/>\nfelt her nearness to him in earth&#8217;s breast,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Conversed<br \/>\nstill with a Light behind the veil,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Still<br \/>\ncommuned with Eternity beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nfew and fit inhabitants she called<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\nshare the glad communion of her peace;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nbreadths, the summit were their natural home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nstrong king-sages from their labour done,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Freed<br \/>\nfrom the warrior tension of their task,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Came<br \/>\nto her serene sessions in these wilds;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nstrife was over, the respite lay in front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Happy<br \/>\nthey lived with birds and beasts and flowers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nsunlight and the rustle of the leaves,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nheard the wild winds wandering in the night,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Mused<br \/>\nwith the stars in their mute constant ranks,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nlodged in the mornings as in azure tents,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwith the glory of the <span class=\"SpellE\">noons<\/span> were one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Some<br \/>\ndeeper plunged; from life&#8217;s external clasp<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Beckoned<br \/>\ninto a fiery privacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In<br \/>\nthe soul&#8217;s unassailed star-white recess<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nsojourned with an <span class=\"SpellE\">ever-living<\/span><br \/>\nBliss;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nVoice profound in the ecstasy and the hush<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nheard, beheld an all-revealing Light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All<br \/>\ntime-made difference they overcame;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nworld was fibred with their own heart-strings;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Close-drawn<br \/>\nto the heart that beats in every breast,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nreached the one self in all through boundless love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Attuned<br \/>\nto Silence and to the world-rhyme,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nloosened the knot of the imprisoning mind;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 381<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Achieved<br \/>\nwas the wide untroubled witness gaze,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Unsealed<br \/>\nwas Nature&#8217;s great spiritual eye;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\nthe height of heights rose now their daily climb:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Truth<br \/>\nleaned to them from her supernal realm;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Above<br \/>\nthem blazed eternity&#8217;s mystic suns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Nameless<br \/>\nthe austere ascetics without home<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Abandoning<br \/>\nspeech and motion and desire,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Aloof<br \/>\nfrom creatures sat absorbed, alone,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Immaculate<br \/>\nin tranquil heights of self<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">On<br \/>\nconcentration&#8217;s luminous voiceless peaks,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">World-naked<br \/>\nhermits with their matted hair<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Immobile<br \/>\nas the passionless great hills<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Around<br \/>\nthem grouped like thoughts of some vast mood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Awaiting<br \/>\nthe <span class=\"SpellE\">Infinite&#8217;s<\/span> behest to<br \/>\nend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nseers attuned to the universal Will,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Content<br \/>\nin Him who smiles behind earth&#8217;s forms<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Abode<br \/>\n      <span class=\"SpellE\">ungrieved<\/span> by the insistent<br \/>\ndays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">About<br \/>\nthem like green trees girdling a hill<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Young<br \/>\ngrave disciples fashioned by their touch,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Trained<br \/>\nto the simple act and conscious word,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Greatened<br \/>\nwithin and grew to meet their heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Far-wandering<br \/>\nseekers on the <span class=\"SpellE\">Eternal&#8217;s<\/span><br \/>\npath<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Brought<br \/>\nto these quiet founts their spirit&#8217;s thirst<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nspent the treasure of a silent hour<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Bathed<br \/>\nin the purity of the mild gaze<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That,<br \/>\n      <span class=\"SpellE\">uninsistent<\/span>, ruled them from<br \/>\nits peace,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nby its influence found the ways of calm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nInfants of the monarchy of the worlds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nheroic leaders of a coming time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">King-children<br \/>\nnurtured in that spacious air<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Like<br \/>\nlions <span class=\"SpellE\">gambolling<\/span> in sky and<br \/>\nsun<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Received<br \/>\nhalf-consciously their godlike stamp:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Formed<br \/>\nin the type of the high thoughts they sang<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nlearned the wide magnificence of mood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That<br \/>\nmakes us comrades of the cosmic urge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">No<br \/>\nlonger chained to their small separate selves,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 382<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Plastic<br \/>\nand firm beneath the eternal hand,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Met<br \/>\nNature with a bold and friendly clasp<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nserved in her the Power that shapes her works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">One-<span class=\"SpellE\">souled<\/span> to all and free from<br \/>\nnarrowing bonds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Large<br \/>\nlike a continent of warm sunshine<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In<br \/>\nwide equality&#8217;s impartial joy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">These<br \/>\nsages breathed for God&#8217;s delight in things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Assisting<br \/>\nthe slow entries of the gods,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Sowing<br \/>\nin young minds immortal thoughts they lived,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Taught<br \/>\nthe great Truth to which man&#8217;s race must rise<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nopened the gates of freedom to a few,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Imparting<br \/>\nto our struggling world the Light<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nbreathed like spirits from Time&#8217;s dull yoke released,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Comrades<br \/>\nand vessels of the cosmic Force,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Using<br \/>\na natural mastery like the sun&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Their<br \/>\nspeech, their silence was a help to earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nmagic happiness flowed from their touch;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Oneness<br \/>\nwas sovereign in that sylvan peace,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nwild beast joined in friendship with its prey,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Persuading<br \/>\nthe hatred and the strife to cease<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nlove that flows from the one Mother&#8217;s breast<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Healed<br \/>\nwith their hearts the hard and wounded world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Others<br \/>\nescaped from the confines of thought<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\nwhere Mind motionless sleeps waiting Light&#8217;s birth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ncame back quivering with a nameless Force<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Drunk<br \/>\nwith a wine of lightning in their cells;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Intuitive<br \/>\nknowledge leaping into speech,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Hearing<br \/>\nthe subtle voice that clothes the heavens,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Carrying<br \/>\nthe <span class=\"SpellE\">splendour<\/span> that has<br \/>\nlit the suns,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">They<br \/>\nsang Infinity&#8217;s names and deathless powers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In<br \/>\nmetres that reflect the moving worlds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Sight&#8217;s<br \/>\nsound-waves breaking from the soul&#8217;s great deeps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Some<br \/>\nlost to the person and his strip of thought<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In a<br \/>\nmotionless ocean of impersonal Power,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Sat<br \/>\nmighty, <span class=\"SpellE\">visioned<\/span> with the <span class=\"SpellE\">Infinite&#8217;s<\/span> Light,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or,<br \/>\ncomrades of the everlasting Will,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 383<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Surveyed<br \/>\nthe plan of past and future Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Some<br \/>\nwinged like birds out of the cosmic sea<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nvanished into a bright and featureless Vast:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Some<br \/>\nsilent watched the universal dance,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nhelped the world by world-indifference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Some<br \/>\nwatched no more merged in a lonely Self,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Absorbed<br \/>\nin the trance from which no soul returns,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All<br \/>\nthe occult world-lines for ever closed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nchains of birth and person cast away:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Some<br \/>\nuncompanioned reached the Ineffable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-indent: 25px;line-height: 150%\">As floats a<br \/>\nsunbeam through a shady place,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\ngolden virgin in her carven car<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Came<br \/>\ngliding among meditation&#8217;s seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Often<br \/>\nin twilight mid returning troops<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Of<br \/>\ncattle thickening with their dust the shades<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">When<br \/>\nthe loud day had slipped below the verge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Arriving<br \/>\nin a peaceful hermit grove<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She<br \/>\nrested drawing round her like a cloak<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Its<br \/>\nspirit of patient muse and potent prayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nnear to a lion river&#8217;s tawny mane<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ntrees that worshipped on a praying shore,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\ndomed and <span class=\"SpellE\">templed<\/span> air&#8217;s serene<br \/>\nrepose<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Beckoned<br \/>\nto her hurrying wheels to stay their speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In<br \/>\nthe solemnity of a space that seemed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\nmind remembering ancient silences,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where<br \/>\nto the heart great bygone voices called<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nthe large liberty of brooding seers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Had<br \/>\nleft the long impress of their soul&#8217;s scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Awake<br \/>\nin candid dawn or darkness mooned,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To<br \/>\nthe still touch inclined the daughter of Flame<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Drank<br \/>\nin hushed <span class=\"SpellE\">splendour<\/span> between<br \/>\ntranquil lids<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nfelt the kinship of eternal calm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But<br \/>\nmorn broke in reminding her of her quest<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nfrom low rustic couch or mat she rose<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nwent impelled on her unfinished way&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 384<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nfollowed the fateful orbit of her life<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Like<br \/>\na desire that questions silent gods,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Then<br \/>\npasses <span class=\"SpellE\">starlike<\/span> to some<br \/>\nbright Beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Thence<br \/>\nto great solitary tracts she came,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where<br \/>\nman was a passer-by towards human scenes<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nsole in Nature&#8217;s vastness strove to live<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ncalled for help to <span class=\"SpellE\">ensouled<\/span><br \/>\ninvisible Powers,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Overwhelmed<br \/>\nby the immensity of his world<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nunaware of his own infinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nEarth multiplied to her a changing brow<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\ncalled her with a far and nameless voice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nmountains in their anchorite solitude,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nforests with their multitudinous chant<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Disclosed<br \/>\nto her the masked divinity&#8217;s doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">On<br \/>\ndreaming plains, an indolent expanse,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\ndeath-bed of a pale enchanted eve<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Under<br \/>\nthe glamour of a sunken sky,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Impassive<br \/>\nshe lay as at an age&#8217;s end,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\ncrossed an eager pack of huddled hills<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Lifting<br \/>\ntheir heads to hunt a <span class=\"SpellE\">lairlike<\/span><br \/>\nsky,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or <span class=\"SpellE\">travelled<\/span> in a strange and<br \/>\nempty land<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where<br \/>\ndesolate summits camped in a weird heaven,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Mute<br \/>\nsentinels beneath a drifting moon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nwandered in some lone tremendous wood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Ringing<br \/>\nfor ever with the crickets&#8217; cry,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nfollowed a long glistening serpent road<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Through<br \/>\nfields and pastures lapped in <span class=\"SpellE\">moveless<\/span><br \/>\nlight,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or<br \/>\nreached the wild beauty of a desert space<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where<br \/>\nnever plough was driven nor herd had grazed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nslumbered upon stripped and thirsty sands<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Amid<br \/>\nthe savage wild-beast Night&#8217;s appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Still<br \/>\nunaccomplished was the fateful quest;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Still<br \/>\nshe found not the one predestined face<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">For<br \/>\nwhich she sought amid the sons of men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A<br \/>\ngrandiose silence wrapped the regal day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nmonths had fed the passion of the sun&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 385<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And<br \/>\nnow his burning breath assailed the soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\ntiger heats prowled through the fainting earth;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All<br \/>\nwas licked up as by a lolling tongue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The<br \/>\nspring winds failed; the sky was set like bronze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">End of Canto Four<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">End of Book Four&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n      <span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 386<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"16%\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt;margin-bottom: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Canto Four&nbsp; &nbsp; The Quest&nbsp; &nbsp; The world-ways opened before Savitri. 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