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Book Eleven. The Book of Everlasting Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music<\/th>Book Eleven. Canto One:The Eternal Day:
The Soul’s Choice and the Supreme Consummation<\/th><\/tr>
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898   “Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again;
899   For now from my highest being looks at thee
900   The nameless formless peace where all things rest.
901   In a happy vast sublime cessation know,-
902   An immense extinction in eternity,
903   A point that disappears in the infinite,-
904   Felicity of the extinguished flame,
905   Last sinking of a wave in a boundless sea,
906   End of the trouble of thy wandering thoughts,
907   Close of the journeying of thy pilgrim soul.
908   Accept, O music, weariness of thy notes,
909   O stream, wide breaking of thy channel banks.”
910   The moments fell into eternity.
911   But someone yearned within a bosom unknown
912   And silently the woman’s heart replied:
913   “Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep
914   Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time
915   For the magnificent soul of man on earth.
916   Thy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy.”
917   Limitless like ocean round a lonely isle
918   A second time the eternal cry arose:
919   “Wide open are the ineffable gates in front.
920   My spirit leans down to break the knot of earth,
921   Amorous of oneness without thought or sign
922   To cast down wall and fence, to strip heaven bare,
923   See with the large eye of infinity,
924   Unweave the stars and into silence pass.”
925   In an immense and world-destroying pause
926   She heard a million creatures cry to her.
927   Through the tremendous stillness of her thoughts
928   Immeasurably the woman’s nature spoke:
929   “Thy oneness, Lord, in many approaching hearts,
930   My sweet infinity of thy numberless souls.”
931   Mightily retreating like a sea in ebb
932   A third time swelled the great admonishing call:
933   “I spread abroad the refuge of my wings.
934   Out of its incommunicable deeps
935   My power looks forth of mightiest splendour, stilled
936   Into its majesty of sleep, withdrawn
937   Above the dreadful whirlings of the world.”
938   A sob of things was answer to the voice,
939   And passionately the woman’s heart replied:
940   “Thy energy, Lord, to seize on woman and man,
941   To take all things and creatures in their grief
942   And gather them into a mother’s arms.”
943   Solemn and distant like a seraph’s lyre
944   A last great time the warning sound was heard:
945   “I open the wide eye of solitude
946   To uncover the voiceless rapture of my bliss,
947   Where in a pure and exquisite hush it lies
948   Motionless in its slumber of ecstasy,
949   Resting from the sweet madness of the dance
950   Out of whose beat the throb of hearts was born.”
951   Breaking the Silence with appeal and cry
952   A hymn of adoration tireless climbed,
953   A music beat of winged uniting souls,
954   Then all the woman yearningly replied:
955   “Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain,
956   Thy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe,
957   Thy magic flowing waters of deep love,
958   Thy sweetness give to me for earth and men.”
959   Then after silence a still blissful cry
960   Began, such as arose from the Infinite
961   When the first whisperings of a strange delight
962   Imagined in its deep the joy to seek,
963   The passion to discover and to touch,
964   The enamoured laugh which rhymed the chanting worlds:
965   “O beautiful body of the incarnate Word,
966   Thy thoughts are mine, I have spoken with thy voice.
967   My will is thine, what thou hast chosen I choose:
968   All thou hast asked I give to earth and men.
969   All shall be written out in destiny’s book
970   By my trustee of thought and plan and act,
971   The executor of my will, eternal Time.
972   But since thou hast refused my maimless Calm
973   And turned from my termless peace in which is expunged
974   The visage of Space and the shape of Time is lost,
975   And from happy extinction of thy separate self
976   In my uncompanioned lone eternity,-
977   For not for thee the nameless worldless Nought,
978   Annihilation of thy living soul
979   And the end of thought and hope and life and love
980   In the blank measureless Unknowable,-
981   I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame,
982   I lay my hands upon thy heart of love,
983   I yoke thee to my power of work in Time.
984   Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will,
985   Because thou hast chosen to share earth’s struggle and fate
986   And leaned in pity over earth-bound men
987   And turned aside to help and yearned to save,
988   I bind by thy heart’s passion thy heart to mine
989   And lay my splendid yoke upon thy soul.
990   Now will I do in thee my marvellous works.
991   I will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength,
992   Subdue to my delight thy spirit’s limbs
993   And make thee a vivid knot of all my bliss
994   And build in thee my proud and crystal home.
995   Thy days shall be my shafts of power and light,
996   Thy nights my starry mysteries of joy
997   And all my clouds lie tangled in thy hair
998   And all my springtides marry in thy mouth.
999   O Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light
1000   And bring down God into the lives of men;
1001   Earth shall be my work-chamber and my house,
1002   My garden of life to plant a seed divine.
1003   When all thy work in human time is done
1004   The mind of earth shall be a home of light,
1005   The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven,
1006   The body of earth a tabernacle of God.
1007   Awakened from the mortal’s ignorance
1008   Men shall be lit with the Eternal’s ray
1009   And the glory of my sun-lift in their thoughts
1010   And feel in their hearts the sweetness of my love
1011   And in their acts my Power’s miraculous drive.
1012   My will shall be the meaning of their days;
1013   Living for me, by me, in me they shall live.
1014   In the heart of my creation’s mystery
1015   I will enact the drama of thy soul,
1016   Inscribe the long romance of Thee and Me.
1017   I will pursue thee across the centuries;
1018   Thou shalt be hunted through the world by love,
1019   Naked of ignorance’ protecting veil
1020   And without covert from my radiant gods.
1021   No shape shall screen thee from my divine desire,
1022   Nowhere shalt thou escape my living eyes.
1023   In the nudity of thy discovered self,
1024   In a bare identity with all that is,
1025   Disrobed of thy covering of humanity,
1026   Divested of the dense veil of human thought,
1027   Made one with every mind and body and heart,
1028   Made one with all Nature and with Self and God,
1029   Summing in thy single soul my mystic world
1030   I will possess in thee my universe,
1031   The universe find all I am in thee.
1032   Thou shalt bear all things that all things may change,
1033   Thou shalt fill all with my splendour and my bliss,
1034   Thou shalt meet all with thy transmuting soul.
1035   Assailed by my infinitudes above,
1036   And quivering in immensities below,
1037   Pursued by me through my mind’s wall-less vast,
1038   Oceanic with the surges of my life,
1039   A swimmer lost between two leaping seas
1040   By my outer pains and inner sweetnesses
1041   Finding my joy in my opposite mysteries
1042   Thou shalt respond to me from every nerve.
1043   A vision shall compel thy coursing breath,
1044   Thy heart shall drive thee on the wheel of works,
1045   Thy mind shall urge thee through the flames of thought,
1046   To meet me in the abyss and on the heights,
1047   To feel me in the tempest and the calm,
1048   And love me in the noble and the vile,
1049   In beautiful things and terrible desire.
1050   The pains of hell shall be to thee my kiss,
1051   The flowers of heaven persuade thee with my touch.
1052   My fiercest masks shall my attractions bring.
1053   Music shall find thee in the voice of swords,
1054   Beauty pursue thee through the core of flame.
1055   Thou shalt know me in the rolling of the spheres
1056   And cross me in the atoms of the whirl.
1057   The wheeling forces of my universe
1058   Shall cry to thee the summons of my name.
1059   Delight shall drop down from my nectarous moon,
1060   My fragrance seize thee in the jasmine’s snare,
1061   My eye shall look upon thee from the sun.
1062   Mirror of Nature’s secret spirit made,
1063   Thou shalt reflect my hidden heart of joy,
1064   Thou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed
1065   In my pure lotus-cup of starry brim.
1066   My dreadful hands laid on thy bosom shall force
1067   Thy being bathed in fiercest longing’s streams.
1068   Thou shalt discover the one and quivering note,
1069   And cry, the harp of all my melodies,
1070   And roll, my foaming wave in seas of love.
1071   Even my disasters’ clutch shall be to thee
1072   The ordeal of my rapture’s contrary shape:
1073   In pain’s self shall smile on thee my secret face:
1074   Thou shalt bear my ruthless beauty unabridged
1075   Amid the world’s intolerable wrongs,
1076   Trampled by the violent misdeeds of Time
1077   Cry out to the ecstasy of my rapture’s touch.
1078   All beings shall be to thy life my emissaries;
1079   Drawn to me on the bosom of thy friend,
1080   Compelled to meet me in thy enemy’s eyes,
1081   My creatures shall demand me from thy heart.
1082   Thou shalt not shrink from any brother soul.
1083   Thou shalt be attracted helplessly to all.
1084   Men seeing thee shall feel my hands of joy,
1085   In sorrow’s pangs feel steps of the world’s delight,
1086   Their life experience its tumultuous shock
1087   In the mutual craving of two opposites.
1088   Hearts touched by thy love shall answer to my call,
1089   Discover the ancient music of the spheres
1090   In the revealing accents of thy voice
1091   And nearer draw to me because thou art:
1092   Enamoured of thy spirit’s loveliness
1093   They shall embrace my body in thy soul,
1094   Hear in thy life the beauty of my laugh,
1095   Know the thrilled bliss with which I made the worlds.
1096   All that thou hast, shall be for others’ bliss,
1097   All that thou art, shall to my hands belong.
1098   I will pour delight from thee as from a jar,
1099   I will whirl thee as my chariot through the ways,
1100   I will use thee as my sword and as my lyre,
1101   I will play on thee my minstrelsies of thought.
1102   And when thou art vibrant with all ecstasy,
1103   And when thou liv’st one spirit with all things,
1104   Then will I spare thee not my living fires,
1105   But make thee a channel for my timeless force.
1106   My hidden presence led thee unknowing on
1107   From thy beginning in earth’s voiceless bosom
1108   Through life and pain and time and will and death,
1109   Through outer shocks and inner silences
1110   Along the mystic roads of Space and Time
1111   To the experience which all Nature hides.
1112   Who hunts and seizes me, my captive grows:
1113   This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats.
1114   For ever love, O beautiful slave of God!
1115   O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose,
1116   Become my cord of universal love.
1117   The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight
1118   Of creation’s oneness sweet and fathomless,
1119   Compelled to embrace my myriad unities
1120   And all my endless forms and divine souls.
1121   O Mind, grow full of the eternal peace;
1122   O Word, cry out the immortal litany:
1123.   Built is the golden tower, the flame-child born.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n