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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 Ten: The Book of the Double Twilight<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music<\/th>Book Ten. Canto One:The Dream Twilight of the
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071   Night is not our beginning nor our end;
072   She is the dark Mother in whose womb we have hid
073   Safe from too swift a waking to world-pain.<\/td><\/tr>
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086   Assailed in the sovereign emptiness of its reign
087   The intolerant Darkness paled and drew apart
088   Till only a few black remnants stained that Ray.
089   But on a failing edge of dumb lost space
090   Still a great dragon body sullenly loomed;
091   Adversary of the slow struggling Dawn
092   Defending its ground of tortured mystery,
093   It trailed its coils through the dead martyred air
094   And curving fled down a grey slope of Time.<\/td><\/tr>
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095   There is a morning twilight of the gods;
096   Miraculous from sleep their forms arise
097   And God’s long nights are justified by dawn.
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109   Into a happy misty twilit world
110   Where all ran after light and joy and love
111   She slipped; there far-off raptures drew more close<\/td><\/tr>
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252   Above, her spirit in its mighty trance
253   Saw all, but lived for its transcendent task,
254   Immutable like a fixed eternal star<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Ten. Canto Two:The Gospel of Death and
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001   Then pealed the calm inexorable voice:
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011   This is the world from which thy yearnings came.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Ten. Canto Three:The Debate of Love and Death<\/th><\/tr>
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004   But Savitri answered to almighty Death:
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432   “O Death, I have triumphed over thee within;
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443   O Death, not for my heart’s sweet poignancy
444   Nor for my happy body’s bliss alone
445   I have claimed from thee the living Satyavan,
446   But for his work and mine, our sacred charge.
447   Our lives are God’s messengers beneath the stars;
448   To dwell under death’s shadow they have come
449   Tempting God’s light to earth for the ignorant race,<\/td><\/tr>
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462   But to the woman Death the god replied,
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480   O human face, put off mind-painted masks:
481   The animal be, the worm that Nature meant;
482   Accept thy futile birth, thy narrow life.
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523   But Savitri replied to mighty Death:
524   “My heart is wiser than the Reason’s thoughts,
525   My heart is stronger than thy bonds, O Death.
526   It sees and feels the one Heart beat in all,
527   It feels the high Transcendent’s sunlike hands,<\/td><\/tr>
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567   Death bowed his sovereign head in cold assent:
568   “I give to thee, saved from death and poignant fate
569   Whatever once the living Satyavan
570   Desired in his heart for Savitri.
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582   Return, O child, to thy forsaken earth.”
583   But Savitri replied, “Thy gifts resist.
584   Earth cannot flower if lonely I return.”<\/td><\/tr>
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585   Then Death sent forth once more his angry cry,
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587   “What knowst thou of earth’s rich and changing life
588   Who thinkst that one man dead all joy must cease?
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597   But Savitri replied to the vague god,
598   “Give me back Satyavan, my only lord.
599   Thy thoughts are vacant to my soul that feels
600   The deep eternal truth in transient things.”
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645   Thus with armed speech the great opponents strove.<\/td><\/tr>
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674   The mortal led, the god and spirit obeyed
675   And she behind was leader of their march
676   And they in front were followers of her will.
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Music<\/th>Book Ten. Canto Four:The Dream Twilight of the
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083   Once more arose the great destroying Voice:
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087   “Behold the figures of this symbol realm,
088   Its solid outlines of creative dream
089   Inspiring the great concrete tasks of earth.
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096   Where Nature changes not, man cannot change:
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121   Hope not to call God down into his life.
122   How shalt thou bring the Everlasting here?
123   There is no house for him in hurrying Time.<\/td><\/tr>
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234   But Savitri answered to the sophist God:
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290   If the chamber’s door is even a little ajar,
291   What then can hinder God from stealing in
292   Or who forbid his kiss on the sleeping soul?
293   Already God is near, the Truth is close:
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305   A lonely freedom cannot satisfy
306   A heart that has grown one with every heart:
307   I am a deputy of the aspiring world,
308   My spirit’s liberty I ask for all.”<\/td><\/tr>
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309   Then rang again a deeper cry of Death.
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378   Mighty art thou with the dread goddess filled,
379   To whom thou criedst at dawn in the dim woods.
380   Use not thy strength like the wild Titan souls!
381   Touch not the seated lines, the ancient laws,
382   Respect the calm of great established things.”
383   But Savitri replied to the huge god:
384   “What is the calm thou vauntst, O Law, O Death?
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401   I trample on thy law with living feet;
402   For to arise in freedom I was born.<\/td><\/tr>
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408   . . . Death replied to her,
409   “Why should the noble and immortal will
410   Stoop to the petty works of transient earth,
411   Freedom forgotten and the Eternal’s path?
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424   She answered, “Straight I trample on the road
425   The strong hand hewed for me which planned our paths.
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446   Freedom is this with ever seated soul,
447   Large in life’s limits, strong in Matter’s knots,
448   Building great stuff of action from the worlds
449   To make fine wisdom from coarse, scattered strands
450   And love and beauty out of war and night,
451   The wager wonderful, the game divine.<\/td><\/tr>
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461   Immutable, Death’s denial met her cry:
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496   All things hang here between God’s yes and no,
497   Two Powers real but to each other untrue,
498   Two consort stars in the mooned night of mind
499   That towards two opposite horizons gaze,
500   The white head and black tail of the mystic drake,
501   The swift and the lame foot, wing strong, wing broken
502   Sustaining the body of the uncertain world,
503   A great surreal dragon in the skies.<\/td><\/tr>
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539   The Woman answered to the mighty Shade,
540   And as she spoke, mortality disappeared;
541   Her Goddess self grew visible in her eyes,
542   Light came, a dream of heaven, into her face.<\/td><\/tr>
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666   On summit Mind are radiant altitudes
667   Exposed to the lustre of Infinity,
668   Outskirts and dependencies of the house of Truth,
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671   A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes;
672   Its smallest parts are here philosophies
673   Challenging with their detailed immensity,<\/td><\/tr>
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675   But higher still can climb the ascending light;
676   There are vasts of vision and eternal suns,
677   Oceans of an immortal luminousness,
678   Flame-hills assaulting heaven with their peaks,<\/td><\/tr>
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684   A highest flight climbs to a deepest view:
685   In a wide opening of its native sky
686   Intuition’s lightnings range in a bright pack
687   Hunting all hidden truths out of their lairs,
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695   Thought there has revelation’s sun-bright eyes;
696   The Word, a mighty and inspiring Voice,
697   Enters Truth’s inmost cabin of privacy
698   And tears away the veil from God and life.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n