{"id":1024,"date":"2013-07-13T01:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:32:05","slug":"19-book-9-canto-01-towards-the-black-void-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\/19-book-9-canto-01-towards-the-black-void-vol-29-savitri-volume-29","title":{"rendered":"-19_Book 9 Canto 01 Towards the Black Void.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight:700\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tPART THREE<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span><br \/>\n<span><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><font size=\"3\">( <\/font> <b><font size=\"3\">B<\/font><\/b><\/span><b><font size=\"3\">ooks<\/font><span><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nIX\u2013XII<\/font><\/span><\/b><span> )<\/span><\/span><span><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-weight:700\"><font size=\"4\">Book<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tNine<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t\t<b>The Book of Eternal Night<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"24%\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\"><i>Canto One<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\">\n<span><font size=\"4\">Towards the Black<br \/>\nVoid<\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">So was she left alone in the huge wood,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Surrounded by a dim unthinking world,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her husband&#8217;s corpse<br \/>\non her forsaken breast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She measured not her loss with helpless thoughts,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Nor rent with tears the marble seals of pain:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She rose not yet to face the dreadful god.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Over the body she loved her soul leaned out<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In a great stillness without stir or voice,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if her mind had died with Satyavan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But still the human heart in her beat on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Aware still of his being near to hers,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Closely she clasped to her the mute lifeless form<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As though to guard the oneness they had been<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And keep the spirit<br \/>\nstill within its frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then suddenly there came on her the change<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Which in tremendous moments of our lives<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Can overtake sometimes the human soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And hold it up towards its luminous source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The veil is torn, the thinker is no more:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Only the spirit sees and all is known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then a calm Power seated above our brows<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Is seen, unshaken by our thoughts and deeds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Its stillness bears the voices of the world:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Immobile, it moves Nature, looks on life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">It shapes immutably its far-seen ends;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Untouched and tranquil amid error and tears<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And measureless above our striving wills,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Its gaze controls the turbulent whirl of things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">To mate with the Glory it sees, the spirit grows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The voice of life is tuned to infinite sounds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The moments on great wings of lightning come&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 571<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And godlike thoughts surprise the mind of earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Into the soul&#8217;s splendour and intensity<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A crescent of miraculous birth is tossed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Whose horn of mystery<br \/>\nfloats in a bright void<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As into a heaven of strength and silence thought<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Is ravished; all this living mortal clay<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Is seized and in a swift and fiery flood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Of touches shaped by a Harmonist unseen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A new sight comes, new voices in us form<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A body of the music of the<br \/>\ngods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Immortal yearnings without name leap down,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Large quiverings of godhead seeking run<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And weave upon a puissant field of calm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A high and lonely ecstasy of will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">This in a moment&#8217;s depths was born in her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Now to the limitless gaze disclosed that sees<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Things barred from human thinking&#8217;s earthly lids,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The Spirit who had hidden in Nature soared<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Out of his luminous nest within the worlds:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like a vast fire it climbed the skies of night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Thus were the cords<br \/>\nof self-oblivion torn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like one who looks up to far heights she saw,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Ancient and strong as on a windless summit<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Above her where she had worked in her lone mind<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Labouring apart in a sole tower of self,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The source of all which she had seemed or wrought,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A power projected into cosmic space,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A slow embodiment of the aeonic will,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A starry fragment of the eternal Truth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The passionate instrument of an unmoved Power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A Presence was there<br \/>\nthat filled the listening world,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A central All assumed her boundless life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A sovereignty, a silence and a swiftness,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">One brooded over abysses who was she.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As in a choric robe of unheard sounds<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A force descended<br \/>\ntrailing endless lights;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Page \u2013 572<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Linking Time&#8217;s seconds to<br \/>\nInfinity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Illimitably it girt the earth and her:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">It sank into her soul and she was changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then like a thought fulfilled by some great word<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">That mightiness<br \/>\nassumed a symbol form;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her being&#8217;s spaces quivered with its touch,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">It covered her as with immortal wings;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">On its lips the curve of the unuttered Truth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A halo of Wisdom&#8217;s lightnings for its crown,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">It entered the mystic lotus in her head,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A thousand-petalled home of power and light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Immortal leader of her mortality,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Doer of her works and fountain of her words,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Invulnerable by Time, omnipotent,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">It stood above her calm, immobile, mute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-indent:25px;line-height:150%\">All in her mated with that mighty hour,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if the last remnant had been slain by Death<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Of the humanity that once was hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Assuming a spiritual wide control,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Making life&#8217;s sea a mirror of heaven&#8217;s sky,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The young divinity in her earthly limbs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Filled with celestial strength her mortal part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Over was the haunted pain, the rending fear:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her grief had passed away, her mind was still,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her heart beat quietly with a sovereign force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">There came a freedom from the heart-strings&#8217; clutch,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Now all her acts sprang from a godhead&#8217;s calm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Calmly she laid upon the forest soil<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The dead who still reposed upon her breast<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And bore to turn away from the dead form:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Sole now she rose to meet the dreadful god.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">That mightier spirit turned its mastering gaze<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">On life and things, inheritor of a work<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Left to it unfinished from her halting past,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">When yet the mind, a passionate learner, toiled&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Page \u2013 573<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And ill-shaped instruments were crudely moved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Transcended now was the poor human rule;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A sovereign power was there, a godlike will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A moment yet she lingered motionless<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And looked down on the dead man at her feet;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then like a tree recovering from a wind<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She raised her noble head; fronting her gaze<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Something stood there, unearthly, sombre, grand,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A limitless denial of all being<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">That wore the terror and wonder of a shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In its appalling eyes the tenebrous Form<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Bore the deep pity of<br \/>\ndestroying gods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A sorrowful irony curved the dreadful lips<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">That speak the word of doom. Eternal Night,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In the dire beauty of an immortal face,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Pitying arose, receiving all that lives<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">For ever into its fathomless heart, refuge<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Of creatures from their anguish and world-pain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">His shape was nothingness made real, his limbs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Were monuments of transience and beneath<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Brows of unwearying calm large godlike lids<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Silent beheld the writhing serpent, life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Unmoved their timeless wide unchanging gaze<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Had seen the unprofitable cycles pass,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Survived the passing of unnumbered stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And sheltered still the same immutable orbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The two opposed each other with their eyes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Woman and universal god: around her,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Piling their void unbearable loneliness<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Upon her mighty uncompanioned soul,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Many inhuman solitudes came close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Vacant eternities forbidding hope<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Laid upon her their huge and lifeless look,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And to her ears silencing earthly sounds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A sad and formidable voice arose<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Which seemed the whole adverse world&#8217;s. \u201cUnclasp,\u201d it cried,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 574<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\"><span>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThy passionate<br \/>\ninfluence and relax, O slave<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Of Nature, changing tool of changeless Law,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Who vainly writhst rebellious to my yoke,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Thy elemental grasp; weep and forget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Entomb thy passion in its living grave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Leave now the once-loved spirit&#8217;s abandoned robe:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Pass lonely back to thy vain life on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">It ceased, she moved not and it spoke again,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Lowering its mighty key to human chords,\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Yet a dread cry behind the uttered sounds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Echoing all sadness and immortal scorn,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Moaned like a hunger of far wandering waves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\u201cWilt thou for ever keep thy passionate hold,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Thyself, a creature doomed like him to pass,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Denying his soul death&#8217;s calm and silent rest?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Relax thy grasp; this body is earth&#8217;s and thine,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">His spirit now belongs to a greater power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Woman, thy husband suffers.\u201d Savitri<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Drew back her heart&#8217;s force that clasped his body still<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Where from her lap renounced on the smooth grass<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Softly it lay, as often before in sleep<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">When from their couch she rose in the white dawn<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Called by her daily<br \/>\ntasks: now too as if called<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She rose and stood gathered in lonely strength,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like one who drops his mantle for a race<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And waits the signal, motionlessly swift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She knew not to what course: her spirit above<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">On the crypt-summit of her secret form<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like one left sentinel on a mountain crest,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A fiery-footed splendour puissant-winged,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Watched flaming-silent with her voiceless soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like a still sail upon a windless sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">White passionless it rode, an anchored might,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Waiting what far-ridged impulse should arise<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Out of the eternal depths and cast its surge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then Death, the king, leaned boundless down, as leans&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 575<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Night over tired lands when evening pales<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And fading gleams break down the horizon&#8217;s walls,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Nor yet the dusk grows mystic with the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The dim and awful godhead rose erect<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">From his brief stooping to his touch on earth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And like a dream that wakes out of a dream,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Forsaking the poor mould of that dead clay,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Another luminous Satyavan arose,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Starting upright from the recumbent earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if someone over viewless borders stepped<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Emerging on the edge of unseen worlds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In the earth&#8217;s day the silent marvel stood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Between the mortal woman and the god.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Such seemed he as if one departed came<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Wearing the light of a celestial shape<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Splendidly alien to the mortal air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The mind sought things long loved and fell back foiled<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">From unfamiliar hues, beheld yet longed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">By the sweet radiant form unsatisfied,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Incredulous of its too bright hints of heaven;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Too strange the brilliant phantasm to life&#8217;s clasp<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Desiring the warm creations of the earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Reared in the ardour of material suns,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The senses seized in vain a glorious shade:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Only the spirit knew the spirit still,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And the heart divined the old loved heart, though changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Between two realms he stood, not wavering,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But fixed in quiet strong expectancy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like one who, sightless, listens for a command.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">So were they immobile on that earthly field,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Powers not of earth, though one in human clay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">On either side of one two spirits strove;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Silence battled with silence, vast with vast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But now the impulse of the Path was felt<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Moving from the Silence that supports the stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">To touch the confines of the visible world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Page \u2013 576<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Luminous he moved away; behind him Death<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Went slowly with his noiseless tread, as seen<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In dream-built fields a shadowy herdsman glides<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Behind some wanderer from his voiceless herds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And Savitri moved behind eternal Death,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her mortal pace was equalled with the god&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Wordless she travelled in her lover&#8217;s steps,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Planting her human feet where his had trod,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Into the perilous silences beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;text-indent:25px;line-height:150%\">At first in a blind stress of woods she moved<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">With strange inhuman paces on the soil,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Journeying as if upon an unseen road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Around her on the green and imaged earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The flickering screen<br \/>\nof forests ringed her steps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Its thick luxurious obstacle of boughs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Besieged her body pressing dimly through<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In a rich realm of whispers palpable,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And all the murmurous beauty of the leaves<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Rippled around her like an emerald robe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But more and more this grew an alien sound,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And her old intimate body seemed to her<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A burden which her being remotely bore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Herself lived far in some uplifted scene<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Where to the trance-chained vision of pursuit,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Sole presences in a high spaceless dream,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The luminous spirit glided stilly on<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And the great shadow travelled vague behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Still with an amorous crowd of seeking hands<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Softly entreated by their old desires<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her senses felt earth&#8217;s close and gentle air<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Cling round them and in troubled branches knew<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Uncertain treadings of a faint-foot wind:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She bore dim fragrances, far callings touched;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The wild bird&#8217;s voice and its winged rustle came<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if a sigh from some forgotten world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 577<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Earth stood aloof, yet near: round her it wove<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Its sweetness and its greenness and delight,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Its brilliance suave of well-loved vivid hues,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Sunlight arriving to its golden noon,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And the blue heavens and the caressing soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The ancient Mother offered to her child<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her simple world of kind familiar things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But now as if the body&#8217;s sensuous hold<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Curbing the godhead of her infinite walk<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Had freed those spirits to their grander road<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Across some boundary&#8217;s intangible bar,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The silent god grew mighty and remote<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In other spaces and the soul she loved<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Lost its consenting nearness to her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Into a deep and unfamiliar air<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Enormous, windless, without stir or sound<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">They seemed to enlarge away, drawn by some wide<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Pale distance, from the warm control of earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And her grown far. Now, now they would escape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then flaming from her body&#8217;s nest, alarmed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her violent spirit soared at Satyavan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Out mid the plunge of heaven-surrounded rocks<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">So in a terror and a wrath divine<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">From her eyrie streams against the ascending death,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Indignant at its crouching point of steel,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A fierce she-eagle threatened in her brood,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Borne on a rush of puissance and a cry,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Outwinging like a mass of golden fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">So on a spirit&#8217;s flaming outrush borne<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She crossed the borders of dividing sense;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like pale discarded sheaths dropped dully down<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her mortal members fell back from her soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A moment of a secret body&#8217;s sleep,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her trance knew not of sun or earth or world;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Thought, time and death were absent from her grasp:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She knew not self, forgotten was Savitri.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 578<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">All was the violent ocean of a will<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Where lived captive to an immense caress,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Possessed in a supreme identity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her aim, joy, origin, Satyavan alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her sovereign prisoned in her being&#8217;s core,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">He beat there like a rhythmic heart,\u2014herself<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But different still, one loved, enveloped, clasped,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A treasure saved from the collapse of space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Around him nameless, infinite she surged,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her spirit fulfilled in his spirit, rich with all Time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if Love&#8217;s deathless moment had been found,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A pearl within eternity&#8217;s white shell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then out of the engulfing sea of trance<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Her mind rose drenched to light streaming with hues<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Of vision and, awake once more to Time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Returned to shape the lineaments of things<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And live in borders of the seen and known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Onward the three still moved in her soul-scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if pacing through fragments of a dream,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">She seemed to travel on, a visioned shape,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Imagining other musers like herself,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">By them imagined in their lonely sleep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Ungrasped, unreal, yet familiar, old,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Like clefts of unsubstantial memory,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Scenes often traversed, never lived in, fled<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Past her unheeding to forgotten goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In voiceless regions they were travellers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Alone in a new world where souls were not,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But only living moods.<br \/>\nA strange, hushed, weird<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Country was round them, strange far skies above,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A doubting space where dreaming objects lived<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Within themselves their own unchanged idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Weird were the<br \/>\ngrasses, weird the treeless plains,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Weird ran the road which like fear hastening<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Towards that of which it has most terror, passed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Phantasmal between pillared conscious rocks&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 579<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Sombre and high, gates brooding, whose stone thoughts<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Lost their huge sense beyond in giant night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Enigma of the Inconscient&#8217;s sculptural sleep,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Symbols of the approach to darkness old<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And monuments of her titanic reign,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Opening to depths like dumb appalling jaws<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">That wait a traveller down a haunted path<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Attracted to a mystery that slays,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">They watched across her road, cruel and still;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Sentinels they stood of dumb Necessity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Mute heads of vigilant and sullen gloom,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Carved muzzle of a dim enormous world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Then to that chill sere heavy line arrived<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Where his feet touched the shadowy marches&#8217; brink,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Turning arrested luminous Satyavan<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Looked back with his wonderful eyes at Savitri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">But Death pealed forth his vast abysmal cry:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">\u201cO mortal, turn back to thy transient kind;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Aspire not to accompany Death to his home,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">As if thy breath could live where Time must die.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Think not thy mind-born passion strength from heaven<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">To uplift thy spirit from its earthly base<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And, breaking out from the material cage,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">To upbuoy thy feet of dream in groundless Nought<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">And bear thee through the pathless infinite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Only in human limits man lives safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Trust not in the unreal Lords of Time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Immortal deeming this image of thyself<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Which they have built on a<br \/>\ndream&#8217;s floating ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Let not the dreadful goddess move thy soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">To enlarge thy vehement trespass into worlds<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Where it shall perish like a helpless thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Know the cold term-stones of thy hopes in life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Armed vainly with the Idea&#8217;s<br \/>\nborrowed might<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Dare not to outstep<br \/>\nman&#8217;s bound and measured force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Ignorant and stumbling, in brief boundaries pent,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 580<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='text-align:center'>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">He crowns himself the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s mock suzerain<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Tormenting Nature with the works of Mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">O sleeper dreaming of divinity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Wake trembling mid the indifferent silences<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">In which thy few weak chords of being die.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Impermanent creatures, sorrowful foam of Time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Your transient loves bind not the eternal gods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The dread voice ebbed in the consenting hush<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Which seemed to close upon it, wide, intense,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A wordless sanction from the jaws of Night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">The Woman answered not. Her high nude soul,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Stripped of the girdle of mortality,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Against fixed destiny and the grooves of law<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Stood up in its sheer will a primal force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Still like a statue on its pedestal,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Lone in the silence and to vastness bared,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">Against midnight&#8217;s dumb abysses piled in front<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">A columned shaft of fire and light she rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin:0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>End of Canto One&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style='margin:0;text-align:center;line-height:150%'>\n<span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Page \u2013 581<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"16%\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PART THREE &nbsp;( Books IX\u2013XII )&nbsp; &nbsp; Book Nine &nbsp; The Book of Eternal Night &nbsp; &nbsp; Canto One &nbsp;&nbsp; Towards the Black Void&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29-savitri-volume-29","wpcat-22-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}