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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 Four. The Book of Birth and Quest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music<\/th>Book Four. Canto One:The Birth and Childhood of
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020   Across the burning languor of the soil
021   Paced Summer with his pomp of violent noons
022   And stamped his tyranny of torrid light
023   And the blue seal of a great burnished sky.<\/td><\/tr>
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025   Rain-tide burst in upon torn wings of heat,
026   Startled with lightnings air’s unquiet drowse,
027   Lashed with life-giving streams the torpid soil,
028   Overcast with flare and sound and storm-winged dark
029   The star-defended doors of heaven’s dim sleep,
030   Or from the gold eye of her paramour
031   Covered with packed cloud-veils the earth’s brown face.<\/td><\/tr>
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068   Earth’s mood now changed; she lay in lulled repose,
069   The hours went by with slow contented tread:
070   A wide and tranquil air remembered peace,
071   Earth was the comrade of a happy sun.
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082   Three thoughtful seasons passed with shining tread
083   And scanning one by one the pregnant hours
084   Watched for a flame that lurked in luminous depths,
085   The vigil of some mighty birth to come.<\/td><\/tr>
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086   Autumn led in the glory of her moons
087   And dreamed in the splendour of her lotus pools<\/td><\/tr>
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088   And Winter and Dew-time laid their calm cool hands
089   On Nature’s bosom still in a half sleep
090   And deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease
091   The tranquil beauty of the waning year.<\/td><\/tr>
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092   Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves
093   And caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;
094   His advent was a fire of irised hues,
095   His arms were a circle of the arrival of joy.<\/td><\/tr>
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139   In this high signal moment of the gods
140   Answering earth’s yearning and her cry for bliss,
141   A greatness from our other countries came.
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149   A spirit of its celestial source aware
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151   Descended into earth’s imperfect mould
152   And wept not fallen to mortality,
153   But looked on all with large and tranquil eyes.<\/td><\/tr>
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199   Outlined by the pressure of this new descent
200   A lovelier body formed than earth had known.
201   As yet a prophecy only and a hint,
202   The glowing arc of a charmed unseen whole,
203   It came into the sky of mortal life
204   Bright like the crescent horn of a gold moon
205   Returning in a faint illumined eve.<\/td><\/tr>
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215   But soon the link of soul with form grew sure;
216   Flooded was the dim cave with slow conscient light,
217   The seed grew into a delicate marvellous bud,
218   The bud disclosed a great and heavenly bloom.
219   At once she seemed to found a mightier race.
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229   Her nature dwelt in a strong separate air
230   Like a strange bird with large rich-coloured breast
231   That sojourns on a secret fruited bough,
232   Lost in the emerald glory of the woods
233   Or flies above divine unreachable tops.<\/td><\/tr>
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335   An image made of heaven’s transparent light.
336   Its charm recalled things seen in vision’s hours,
337   A golden bridge spanning a faery flood,
338   A moon-touched palm-tree single by a lake
339   Companion of the wide and glimmering peace,
340   A murmur as of leaves in Paradise
341   Moving when feet of the Immortals pass,
342   A fiery halo over sleeping hills,
343   A strange and starry head alone in Night.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Four. Canto Two:The Growth of the Flame<\/th><\/tr>
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001   A land of mountains and wide sun-beat plains
002   And giant rivers pacing to vast seas,
003   A field of creation and spiritual hush,
004   Silence swallowing life’s acts into the deeps,
005   Of thought’s transcendent climb and heavenward leap,
006   A brooding world of reverie and trance,
007   Filled with the mightiest works of God and man,
008   Where Nature seemed a dream of the Divine
009   And beauty and grace and grandeur had their home,
010   Harboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.<\/td><\/tr>
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152   A friend and yet too great wholly to know,
153   She walked in their front towards a greater light,
154   Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls,
155   One close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.<\/td><\/tr>
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205   They were moved by her towards great unknown things,
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208   Some turned to her against their nature’s bent;
209   Divided between wonder and revolt,
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212   Impatient subjects, their tied longing hearts
213   Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,
214   Murmured at a yoke they would have wept to lose,
215   The splendid yoke of her beauty and her love:<\/td><\/tr>
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265   The Force in her drew earth’s subhuman broods;
266   And to her spirit’s large and free delight
267   She joined the ardent-hued magnificent lives
268   Of animal and bird and flower and tree.
269   They answered to her with the simple heart.<\/td><\/tr>
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301   A key to a Light still kept in being’s cave,
302   The sun-word of an ancient mystery’s sense,
303   Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men<\/td><\/tr>
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312   No equal heart came close to join her heart,
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335   Midst those encircling lives her spirit dwelt,
336   Apart in herself until her hour of fate.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Four. Canto Three:The Call to the Quest<\/th><\/tr>
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001   A morn that seemed a new creation’s front,
002   Bringing a greater sunlight, happier skies,
003   Came burdened with a beauty moved and strange
004   Out of the changeless origin of things.
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014   King Aswapati listened through the ray
015   To other sounds than meet the sense-formed ear.<\/td><\/tr>
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109   The Voice withdrew into its hidden skies.
110   But like a shining answer from the gods
111   Approached through sun-bright spaces Savitri.<\/td><\/tr>
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165   An impromptu from the deeper sight within,
166   Thoughts rose in him that knew not their own scope.
167   Then to those large and brooding depths whence Love
168   Regarded him across the straits of mind,
169   He spoke in sentences from the unseen Heights.<\/td><\/tr>
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239   Accustomed scenes were now an ended play:
240   Moving in muse amid familiar powers,
241   Touched by new magnitudes and fiery signs,
242   She turned to vastnesses not yet her own;
243   Allured her heart throbbed to unknown sweetnesses;
244   The secrets of an unseen world were close.<\/td><\/tr>
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255   When the pale dawn slipped through Night’s shadowy guard,
256   Vainly the new-born light desired her face;
257   The palace woke to its own emptiness;
258   The sovereign of its daily joys was far;
259   Her moonbeam feet tinged not the lucent floors:
260   The beauty and divinity were gone.
261   Delight had fled to search the spacious world.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/th>Book Four. Canto Four:The Quest<\/th><\/tr>
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001   The world-ways opened before Savitri.
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025   A guidance turned the dumb revolving wheels
026   And in the eager body of their speed
027   The dim-masked hooded godheads rode who move
028   Assigned to man immutably from his birth,
029   Receivers of the inner and outer law,
030   At once the agents of his spirit’s will
031   And witnesses and executors of his fate.<\/td><\/tr>
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079   Often from gilded dusk to argent dawn,
080   Where jewel-lamps flickered on frescoed walls
081   And the stone lattice stared at moonlit boughs,
082   Half-conscious of the tardy listening night
083   Dimly she glided between banks of sleep
084   At rest in the slumbering palaces of kings.<\/td><\/tr>
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085   Hamlet and village saw the fate-wain pass,
086   Homes of a life bent to the soil it ploughs
087   For sustenance of its short and passing days
088   That, transient, keep their old repeated course,
089   Unchanging in the circle of a sky
090   Which alters not above our mortal toil.<\/td><\/tr>
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091   Away from this thinking creature’s burdened hours
092   To free and griefless spaces now she turned
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094   Here was the childhood of primaeval earth,
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097   Imperial acres of the eternal sower
098   And wind-stirred grass-lands winking in the sun:
099   Or mid green musing of woods and rough-browed hills,
100   In the grove’s murmurous bee-air humming wild
101   Or past the long lapsing voice of silver floods
102   Like a swift hope journeying among its dreams
103   Hastened the chariot of the golden bride.<\/td><\/tr>
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131   The bosom of our mother kept for us still
132   Her austere regions and her musing depths,
133   Her impersonal reaches lonely and inspired
134   And the mightinesses of her rapture haunts.
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147   August, exulting in her Maker’s eye,
148   She felt her nearness to him in earth’s breast,
149   Conversed still with a Light behind the veil,
150   Still communed with Eternity beyond.<\/td><\/tr>
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190   The seers attuned to the universal Will,
191   Content in Him who smiles behind earth’s forms,
192   Abode ungrieved by the insistent days.
193   About them like green trees girdling a hill
194   Young grave disciples fashioned by their touch,
195   Trained to the simple act and conscious word,
196   Greatened within and grew to meet their heights.<\/td><\/tr>
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259   As floats a sunbeam through a shady place,
260   The golden virgin in her carven car
261   Came gliding among meditation’s seats.
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277   Awake in candid dawn or darkness mooned,
278   To the still touch inclined the daughter of Flame
279   Drank in hushed splendour between tranquil lids
280   And felt the kinship of eternal calm.<\/td><\/tr>
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315   Still unaccomplished was the fateful quest;
316   Still she found not the one predestined face
317   For which she sought amid the sons of men.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n