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\n
\n

\nSHORT
\nPOEMS<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/h2>\n

\nFragments<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n\n\n
 <\/td>\n\n

\n
\n   
\nMorcundeya<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

O will of God
\nthat stiffest and the Void<\/p>\n

Is peopled, men
\nhave called thee force, upbudyed<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Upon
\n<\/span>whose wings the stars borne round and round<\/p>\n

Need not one
\nhour of rest; light, form and sound<\/p>\n

Are marks of
\nthy eternal movement. We<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

See what thou
\nchoosest, but  <\/span>\u2019tis thou we see.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I Morcundeya
\nwhom the worlds release,<\/p>\n

The
\nSeer,<\/span> – but it is God alone that
\nsees<\/span>! \u2013 <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Soar
\nup<\/span> above the bonds that hold below<\/p>\n

Man to his
\nlittleness, lost in the show<\/p>\n

Perennial which
\nthe senses round him build;<\/p>\n

I find them out
\nand am no more beguiled.<\/p>\n

But ere I rise,
\nere I become the vast<\/p>\n

And luminous
\nInfinite and from the past<\/p>\n

And future
\nutterly released forget<\/p>\n

These beings who
\nthemselves their bonds create,<\/p>\n

Once I will
\nspeak and what I see declare.<\/p>\n

The rest is God.
\nThere\u2019s silence everywhere.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My eyes within
\nwere opened and I saw.
\n 
\n <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\n
\n    
\nA <\/span>voice <\/span>arose<\/a><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

         <\/span>(Alexandrines<\/i><\/font>)<\/font> <\/i><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

A voice arose
\nthat was so sweet and terrible<\/p>\n

It thrilled the
\nheart with love and pain, as if all hell<\/p>\n

Tuned with all
\nheaven in one inextricable note.<\/p>\n

Born from
\nabysmal depths on highest heights to float,<\/p>\n

It carried all
\nsorrow that the souls of creatures share,<\/p>\n

Yet hinted
\nevery rapture that the gods can bear.<\/p>\n

O Sun of God
\nwho camst into my blackest Night<\/p>\n

To sound
\nand know its gulfs and bring the immortal light.
\n <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

 
\n Page-117<\/font><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\n    
\n
\nI
\nwalked beside the waters<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/span> <\/font>
\n<\/a> <\/p>\n

 
\n (Alexandrines)<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I
\nwalked beside the waters of a world of light<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

On
\na gold ridge guarding two seas of high-rayed night.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

One
\nwas divinely topped with a pale bluish moon<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nswam as in a happy deep spiritual swoon<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

More
\nconscious than earth\u2019s waking; the other\u2019s wide delight<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Billowed
\ntowards an ardent orb of diamond white.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

But
\nwhere I stood, there joined in a bright marvellous haze<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nmiracled moons with the long ridge\u2019s golden blaze.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nknew not if two wakings or two mighty sleeps<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Mixed
\nthe great diamond fires and the pale pregnant deeps,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

But
\nall my glad expanding soul flowed satisfied<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Around
\nme and became the mystery of their tide.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

As
\none who finds his own eternal self, content,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Needing
\nnaught else beneath the spirit\u2019s firmament,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

It
\nknew not Space, it heard no more Time\u2019s running feet,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Termless,
\nfulfilled, lost richly in itself, complete.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nso it might have lain for ever. But there came<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

A
\ndire intrusion wrapped in married cloud and flame,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Across
\nthe blue-white moon-hush of my magic seas<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

A
\nsudden sweeping of immense peripheries<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Of
\ndarkness ringing lambent lustres; shadowy-vast<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

A
\nnameless dread, a Power incalculable passed<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Whose
\nfeet were death, whose wings were immortality;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Its
\nchanging mind was time, its heart eternity.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

All
\nopposites were there, unreconciled, uneased,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Struggling
\nfor victory, by victory unappeased.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

All
\nthings it bore, even that which brings undying peace,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

But
\nsecret, veiled, waiting for some supreme release.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nsaw the spirit of the cosmic Ignorance;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nfelt its power besiege my gloried fields of trance.<\/p>\n

            <\/span>
\n<\/span>     
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\nPage-118<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

    SHORT POEMS<\/title><\/p>\n

\n
\n  
\nUrvasie<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pururavus
\nfrom converse held with Gods<\/p>\n

On
\nunseen crest of Nature high, occult,<\/p>\n

Traversed
\nthe tumult of the flame-tossed seas<\/p>\n

That
\ncast their fire between the spirit\u2019s poles.<\/p>\n

Alone
\nlike a bright star twixt earth and heaven,<\/p>\n

He
\nreached the crossways of infinity.(eternity.)<\/span><\/p>\n

A
\nSoul to our apparent life reborn<\/p>\n

Out
\nof the vastness of the original Self,<\/p>\n

Journeying
\nin dim momentous solitude<\/p>\n

Led
\nby the flickering of uncertain suns,<\/p>\n

He
\nessayed the fringe of Night\u2019s tremendous home.<\/p>\n

Before
\nhim lay the subtle realm of light<\/p>\n

Our
\norganed sense conceals, the light that gleams<\/p>\n

Across
\nthe sealless musings of the seer,<\/p>\n

A
\nslumberless wide eye upon our scene.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Attracted
\n(<\/span> But destined<\/span>
\n) to earth\u2019s darkly pregnant dream<\/p>\n

He
\ntarried not on these mysterious shores<\/p>\n

But
\nstill descended the divine abyss<\/p>\n

To
\nnew adventure in the eternal Night,<\/p>\n

Transgressed
\nthe wonder-line of things beyond<\/p>\n

Abruptly
\ninto mortal space and time.<\/p>\n

A
\nUniverse appeared of difficult birth,<\/p>\n

The
\nlabour of eclipsed and ignorant gods,<\/p>\n

An
\nimmortality of chance and change.<\/p>\n

Bridging
\nthe gulf between antagonist planes<\/p>\n

He
\nsaw the circles of Heaven\u2019s rash advance,<\/p>\n

Sun
\nupon sun, God\u2019s sentinels in the void;<\/p>\n

Life\u2019s
\nradiant and immeasurable camp<\/p>\n

Blazed
\nin the order of the aeonic Will.<\/p>\n

But
\nwith the menace of the dragon depths<\/p>\n

The
\nold blind vigilant Nescience stretched afar<\/p>\n

Hungering
\nin serpent dumb infinitude,<\/p>\n

And
\nher dark shade besieged the luminaries.<\/p>\n

Silence
\nand Death opposed the invading Fire.<\/p>\n

And
\neven before he broke into our pale<\/p>\n

There
\ncame on him a breath from tarnished worlds.
\n <\/p>\n

 
\n Page-119 <\/p>\n

\n
\n<\/div>\n

        
\nAverse from an obscure material touch<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nimages of the supernal realms<\/span>(
\nfields<\/span> )<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

That
\nhe had left sank from the front of thought<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nheld their session in the heart’s dumb cave.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nglory and grace, the light, the sacred life<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Receded
\nas behind a burning door:<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Subliminal
\nbeneath the lid of mind<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The
\ngrandeur and the passion and the calm.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

His
\nmind became a beat of memory.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Sight,
\nhearing changed towards our diminished scale;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nlittle views grew great, the great grew small.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

As
\nyet some largeness was of inmost things<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nhe remembered in the formless sense<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Proud
\nkingdoms of intense and beautiful life<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nlove left free to do his absolute will<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\ndreams at once commuted into power.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Affronting
\nmany starfields of our space<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nshortening ever the vast lens of Time<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nmet a smaller movement of desire<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Prisoned
\nin the orbit of a few pale globes<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nknew in front our little solar belt<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Hung
\ncasually among the giant stars.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Then
\n<\/span>( Our)<\/span>
\nearth received him mid her living forms.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Her
\ndeep inconscient motions packed and mute,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Her
\ndarknesses more wise than her small lights<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Oppressed
\nagain his young divinity.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

 
\n  <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n  
\nThe
\nCosmic Man<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

I
\nlook across the world and no horizon walls my gaze;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nsee Paris and<\/span> Tokio and New
\nYork,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

I
\nsee the bombs bursting on, Barcelona and on canton streets.<\/p>\n

Man\u2019s
\nnumberless misdeeds and rare good deeds take place within my single self.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I
\nam the beast he slays, the bird he feeds and saves.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The
\nthoughts of unknown minds exalt me with their thrill,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

I
\ncarry the sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage-120<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 \n <\/p>\n

 \n <\/p>\n

 \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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