{"id":1502,"date":"2013-07-13T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:35:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:16","slug":"36-epiphany-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/05-collected-poems-volume-05\/36-epiphany-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-36_Epiphany.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nEpiphany<\/p>\n

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\nMajestic,
\nmild, immortally august,<\/p>\n

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In
\nsilence throned, to just and to unjust<\/p>\n

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One
\nLord of deep unutterable love,<\/p>\n

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I
\nsaw Him, Shiva, like a brooding dove<\/p>\n

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Close-winged
\nupon her nest. The outcaste came,<\/p>\n

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The
\nsinners gathered round that tender Flame,<\/p>\n

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The
\ndemons, by the other sterner gods<\/p>\n

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Rejected
\nfrom their luminous abodes,<\/p>\n

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Gathered
\naround the Refuge of the lost,<\/p>\n

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Soft-smiling
\non that wild and grisly host.<\/p>\n

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All
\nwho were refugeless, wretched, unloved,<\/p>\n

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The
\nwicked and the good together moved<\/p>\n

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Naturally
\nto Him, the asylum sweet,<\/p>\n

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And
\nfound their heaven at their Master\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n

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The
\nvision changed and in His place there stood<\/p>\n

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A
\nTerror red as lightning or as blood;<\/p>\n

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His
\nfierce right hand a javelin advanced<\/p>\n

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And,
\nas He shook it, <\/i>earthquake reeling danced<\/p>\n

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Across
\nthe hemisphere, ruin <\/i>and plague<\/p>\n

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Rained
\nout of heaven, disasters swift <\/i>and vague<\/p>\n

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Threatened,
\na marching multitude of ills.<\/p>\n

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His
\n<\/i>foot strode forward to oppress the hills,<\/p>\n

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And
\nat the vision of His burning eyes<\/p>\n

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The
\nhearts of men grew faint with dread surmise<\/p>\n

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Of
\nsin and punishment; their cry was loud,<\/p>\n

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\u201cO
\nMaster of the stormwind and the cloud,<\/p>\n

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Spare,
\nRudra, spare. Show us that other form<\/p>\n

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Auspicious,
\nnot incarnate wrath and storm.\u201d
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\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPage-73<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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The
\nGod of Wrath, the God of Love are one,<\/p>\n

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Nor
\nleast He loves when most He smites. Alone<\/p>\n

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Who
\nrises above fear and plays with grief;<\/p>\n

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Defeat,
\nand death, inherits full relief<\/span><\/p>\n

From
\nblindness and beholds the single Form,<\/p>\n

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Love
\nmasking Terror, Peace supporting storm.<\/p>\n

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The
\nFriend of Man helps him with Life and Death,<\/p>\n

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Until
\nhe knows. Then freed from mortal breath<\/p>\n

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He
\nfeels the joy of the immortal play;<\/p>\n

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Grief,
\npain, resentment, terror pass away.<\/p>\n

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He
\ntoo grows Rudra fierce, august and dire,<\/p>\n

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And
\nShiva, sweet fulfiller of desire.
\n <\/p>\n

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