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Book 1<\/a>   Book II<\/a>   Book III<\/a>  Book IV<\/a>  Book V<\/a> Book VI<\/a>    Book VII<\/a>  Book VIII<\/a>    Book IX<\/a>    Book X<\/a>    Book XI<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Nine. The Book of Eternal Night<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music<\/th>Book Nine. Canto One:Towards the Black Void<\/th><\/tr>
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016   Then suddenly there came on her the change
017   Which in tremendous moments of our lives
018   Can overtake sometimes the human soul
019   And hold it up towards its luminous source.
020   The veil is torn, the thinker is no more:
021   Only the spirit sees and all is known.
022   Then a calm Power seated above our brows
023   Is seen, unshaken by our thoughts and deeds,
024   Its stillness bears the voices of the world:
025   Immobile, it moves Nature, looks on life.
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047   This in a moment’s depths was born in her.<\/td><\/tr>
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054   Like one who looks up to far heights she saw,
055   Ancient and strong as on a windless summit
056   Above her where she had worked in her lone mind
057   Labouring apart in a sole tower of self,
058   The source of all which she had seemed or wrought,
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073   That mightiness assumed a symbol form:
074   Her being’s spaces quivered with its touch,
075   It covered her as with immortal wings;<\/td><\/tr>
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084   All in her mated with that mighty hour,
085   As if the last remnant had been slain by Death
086   Of the humanity that once was hers.
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107   A moment yet she lingered motionless
108   And looked down on the dead man at her feet;<\/td><\/tr>
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109   Then like a tree recovering from a wind
110   She raised her noble head; fronting her gaze
111   Something stood there, unearthly, sombre, grand,
112   A limitless denial of all being
113   That wore the terror and wonder of a shape.<\/td><\/tr>
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130   The two opposed each other with their eyes,
131   Woman and universal god: around her,
132   Piling their void unbearable loneliness
133   Upon her mighty uncompanioned soul,
134   Many inhuman solitudes came close.<\/td><\/tr>
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179   The dim and awful godhead rose erect
180   From his brief stooping to his touch on earth,
181   And, like a dream that wakes out of a dream,
182   Forsaking the poor mould of that dead clay,
183   Another luminous Satyavan arose,
184   Starting upright from the recumbent earth
185   As if someone over viewless borders stepped
186   Emerging on the edge of unseen worlds.<\/td><\/tr>
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202   Between two realms he stood, not wavering,
203   But fixed in quiet strong expectancy,
204   Like one who, sightless, listens for a command.
205   So were they immobile on that earthly field,
206   Powers not of earth, though one in human clay.
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212   Luminous he moved away; behind him Death<\/td><\/tr>
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261   Into a deep and unfamiliar air
262   Enormous, windless, without stir or sound
263   They seemed to enlarge away, drawn by some wide
264   Pale distance, from the warm control of earth
265   And her grown far: now, now they would escape.
266   Then flaming from her body’s nest alarmed
267   Her violent spirit soared at Satyavan.<\/td><\/tr>
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321   Enigma of the Inconscient’s sculptural sleep,
322   Symbols of the approach to darkness old
323   And monuments of her titanic reign,<\/td><\/tr>
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331   Then, to that chill sere heavy line arrived
332   Where his feet touched the shadowy marches’ brink,
333   Turning arrested luminous Satyavan
334   Looked back with his wonderful eyes at Savitri.
335   But Death pealed forth his vast abysmal cry:
336   “O mortal, turn back to thy transient kind;
337   Aspire not to accompany Death to his home,
338   As if thy breath could live where Time must die.<\/td><\/tr>
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369   Still like a statue on its pedestal,
370   Lone in the silence and to vastness bared,
371   Against midnight’s dumb abysses piled in front
372   A columned shaft of fire and light she rose.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Nine. Canto Two:The Journey in Eternal Night
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016   The Woman first affronted the Abyss
017   Daring to journey through the eternal Night.
018   Armoured with light she advanced her foot to plunge
019   Into the dread and hueless vacancy;<\/td><\/tr>
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132   Once more she heard the treading of a god,
133   And out of the dumb darkness Satyavan,
134   Her husband, grew into a luminous shade.
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138   Death missioned to the night his lethal call.
139   “This is my silent dark immensity,
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142   Entombing the vanity of life’s desires.
143   Hast thou beheld thy source, O transient heart,
144   And known from what the dream thou art was made?<\/td><\/tr>
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222   At last she spoke; her voice was heard by Night:
223   “I bow not to thee, O huge mask of death,
224   Black lie of night to the cowed soul of man,
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227   Conscious of immortality I walk.
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247   First I demand whatever Satyavan,
248   My husband, waking in the forest’s charm
249   Out of his long pure childhood’s lonely dreams,
250   Desired and had not for his beautiful life.
251   Give, if thou must, or, if thou canst, refuse.”<\/td><\/tr>
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252   Death bowed his head in scornful cold assent,
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255   Uplifting his disastrous voice he spoke:
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257   I yield to his blind father’s longing heart
258   Kingdom and power and friends and greatness lost
259   And royal trappings for his peaceful age,
260   The pallid pomps of man’s declining days,
261   The silvered decadent glories of life’s fall.<\/td><\/tr>
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275   But Savitri answered the disdainful Shade:
276   “World-spirit, I was thy equal spirit born.
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278   I am immortal in my mortality.
279   I tremble not before the immobile gaze
280   Of the unchanging marble hierarchies
281   That look with the stone eyes of Law and Fate.
282   My soul can meet them with its living fire.
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296   Wherever thou leadst his soul I shall pursue.”<\/td><\/tr>
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308   Against the Woman’s boundless heart arose
309   The almighty cry of universal Death.
310   “Hast thou god-wings or feet that tread my stars,
311   Frail creature with the courage that aspires,
312   Forgetting thy bounds of thought, thy mortal role?
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340   I will take from thee the black eternal grip:
341   Clasping in thy heart thy fate’s exiguous dole
342   Depart in peace, if peace for man is just.”<\/td><\/tr>
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343   But Savitri answered meeting scorn with scorn,
344   The mortal woman to the dreadful Lord:
345   “Who is this God imagined by thy night,
346   Contemptuously creating worlds disdained,
347   Who made for vanity the brilliant stars?
348   Not he who has reared his temple in my thoughts
349   And made his sacred floor my human heart.
350   My God is will and triumphs in his paths,
351   My God is love and sweetly suffers all.
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360   Love’s golden wings have power to fan thy void:
361   The eyes of love gaze starlike through death’s night,
362   The feet of love tread naked hardest worlds.<\/td><\/tr>
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371   Once more a Thought, a Word in the void arose
372   And Death made answer to the human soul:
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384   Wilt thou claim immortality, O heart,
385   Crying against the eternal witnesses
386   That thou and he are endless powers and last?
387   Death only lasts and the inconscient Void.
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394   All from my depths are born, they live by death;
395   All to my depths return and are no more.
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403   I, Death, am the one refuge of thy soul.<\/td><\/tr>
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439   But Savitri replied to the dread Voice:
440   “O Death, who reasonest, I reason not,
441   Reason that scans and breaks, but cannot build
442   Or builds in vain because she doubts her work.
443   I am, I love, I see, I act, I will.”
444   Death answered her, one deep surrounding cry:
445   “Know also. Knowing, thou shalt cease to love
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449   But Savitri replied for man to Death:
450   “When I have loved for ever, I shall know.
451   Love in me knows the truth all changings mask.<\/td><\/tr>
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466   Like one disdaining violent helpless words
467   From victim lips Death answered not again.
468   He stood in silence and in darkness wrapped,
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471   Half-seen in clouds appeared a sombre face;
472   Night’s dusk tiara was his matted hair,
473   The ashes of the pyre his forehead’s sign.<\/td><\/tr>
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477   Around her rolled the shuddering waste of gloom,
478   Its swallowing emptiness and joyless death
479   Resentful of her thought and life and love.
480   Through the long fading night by her compelled,
481   Gliding half-seen on their unearthly path,
482   Phantasmal in the dimness moved the three.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n