{"id":2341,"date":"2013-07-13T01:40:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:40:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:40:59","slug":"16-blank-verse-rendering-of-conto-1-vol-05-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/05-translations\/16-blank-verse-rendering-of-conto-1-vol-05-translations","title":{"rendered":"-16_Blank Verse Rendering of Conto 1.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border-width: 0px\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" width=\"30%\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"4\">The Birth of the War-God<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<b><br \/>\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">BLANK VERSE RENDERING<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"en-gb\"> <b>OF<\/b><\/span><b><span lang=\"en-gb\"> CANTO I<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">A god concealed in mountain majesty,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Embodied to our cloudy physical sight<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In snowy summits and green-gloried slopes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To northward of the many-rivered land<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Measuring the earth in an enormous ease,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Immense Himaloy dwells and in the moan<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of eastern ocean and in western floods<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Plunges his giant sides. Him once the hills<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Imagined as the mighty calf of earth<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">When the Wideness milked her udders; gems brilliant-rayed<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Were born and herbs on every mountain marge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">So in his infinite riches is he dressed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Not all his snows can slay his opulence,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And though they chill the feet of heaven, her sons<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Forget that fault mid all his crowding gifts,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">As faints in luminous floods the gloomy mark<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">On the moon&#8217;s argent disk; they choose his vales<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">For playground, his hill-peaks for divine homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Brightness of minerals on his rocks is spread<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Which to the Apsaras give adorning hues<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In their love-sports and in their dances; flung<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">On the split clouds their brilliant colours ranged,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Like an untimely sunset&#8217;s glories live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Far down the clouds droop to his girdle-waist;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Then by the low-hung plateaus&#8217; coolness drawn<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The Siddhas in soft shade repose, but flee<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Soon upward by wild driving rain distressed<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To summits splendid in the veilless sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The hunter seeks for traces on his sides,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 263<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And though their reddened footprints are expunged<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">By the new-falling snows, yet can he find<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The path his prey the mighty lions go;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">For, it is told, pearls from slain elephants<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Are clotted, fallen from their hollow claws,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And tell their dangerous passage. When he rests<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Tired with the chase and bares to winds his brow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">They come, fay-breezes dancing on the slopes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Shaking the cedars on Himaloy&#8217;s breast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Scattering the peacock&#8217;s gorgeous-plumed attire,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">With spray of Ganges&#8217; cascades on their wings<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Sprinkling his hair. He makes the grottoed glens<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">His chambers of desire and in the night<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">When the strong forest-wanderer is lain<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Twined with his love, marrying with hers his sighs,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The luminous herbs from the dim banks around,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Faint oilless lamps, give light to see her joy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Nor only earthly footsteps tread the grass,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Or mortal love finds there its happy scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The birch-leaves of the hills love-pages are;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Like spots of age upon the tusky kings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In ink of liquid metals letters strange<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Make crimson signs, pages where passion burns<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And divine Circes pen heart-moving things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The Kinnars wander singing in his glades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He fills the hollows of his bamboo flutes<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">With the wind rising from his deep ravines,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And with a moaning and melodious sound<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Breathes from his rocky mouths as if he meant<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To pipe, tune-giver to their minstrelsies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The delicate heels of the maned Kinnari<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Are by his frosted slabs of snow distressed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Yet for her burden of breasts and heavy hips<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Can change not their slow motion&#8217;s swaying grace<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To escape the biting pathway&#8217;s chill unease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">She too in grottoed caverns lies embraced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">When from her limbs is plucked the raiment fine<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 264<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of the Kinnar&#8217;s shamefast love, then hanging come<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The convex clouds across the grotto doors<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And make chance curtains against mortal eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Shielding the naked goddess from our sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The elephant herds there wander: resinous trees<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Shaken and rubbed by their afflicting brows<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Loose down their odorous tears in creamy drops;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The winds upon the plateaus burdened pant<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And make of all the air a scented dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The yaks are there; they lift their bushy tails<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And in their lashings scatter gleamings white<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">As moonbeams shed upon the sleeping hills:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Brightly they seem to fan the mountain king.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He hides in his deep caves the hunted night<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Fearful of the day&#8217;s brilliant eyes. His peaks<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Seem to outpeer the lower-circling sun,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Which sends its upward beams as if to wake<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Immortal lilies in his tarns unplucked<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">By the seven sages in their starry march.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Such is Himaloy&#8217;s greatness, such his strength<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">That seems to uplift to heaven the earth. He bears<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The honey Soma plant upon his heights,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of godward symbols the exalted source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He by the Master of sacrifice was crowned<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The ancient monarch of a million hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In equal rites he to his giant bed<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The mind-born child of the world-fathers bore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The earthly comrade and the help-fellow<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of Meru, their sublime celestial home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Stable of soul, to make a stable race<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Mena he wed whose wisdom seers adored.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Their joy of love was like themselves immense<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And in the wide felicitous lapse of time<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Its long and puissant ecstasy bore fruit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Bearing the banner of her unchanged youth<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And beauty to charmed motherhood she crossed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Mainac she bore, the guest of the deep seas,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 265<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Upon whose peaks the serpent-women play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Their jewelled tresses glittering through the gloom,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Race of a cavernous and monstrous world;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">There fled when Indra tore the mountains&#8217; wings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">His divine essence bore no cruel sign,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Nor felt the anguish of the lightning&#8217;s bite.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Next to a nobler load her womb gave place;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">For Daksha&#8217;s daughter, Shiva&#8217;s wife, the Lord<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of Being, in her angry will who left<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her body soulless in her father&#8217;s hall,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Sought in their mountain home a happier birth,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And by her in a trance profound of joy<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Conceived was born of great Himaloy&#8217;s seed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Out of the soul unseen the splendid child<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Came like success with daring for its sire<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And for its mother clear-eyed thought sublime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Then were the regions subtle with delight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Soft, pure from cloud and stain; then heaven&#8217;s shells<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Blew sweetly, flowery rain came drifting down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Earth answered to the rapture of the skies<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And all her moving and unmoving life<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Felt happiness because the Bride was born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">So this fair mother by this daughter shone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">So that new beauty radiated its beams<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">As if a land of lapis lazuli<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Torn by the thunder&#8217;s voice shot suddenly forth<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">A jewelled sprouting from the mother bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Parvati was she called, the mountain&#8217;s child,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">When love to love cried answer in her house<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And to that sound she turned her lovely face,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">But after-days the great maternal name<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of Uma gave. On her as fair she grew<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her father banqueted his sateless look;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He felt himself a lamp fulfilled in light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Heaven&#8217;s silent path by Ganges voiceful made,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Or thought made glorious by a perfect word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Like bees that winging come upon the wind<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 266<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Among the infinite sweets of honeyed spring<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Drawn to the mango-flower&#8217;s delicious breast,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">All eyes sought her. Her little childlike form<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Increasing to new curves of loveliness,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">She grew like the moon&#8217;s arc from day to day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Among her fair companions of delight<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">She built frail walls of heavenly Ganges&#8217; sands<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Or ran to seize the tossing ball or pleased<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">With puppet children her maternal mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Absorbed in play, the mother of the worlds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And easily too to her as if in play<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">All sciences and wisdoms crowding came<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Out of her former life, like swans that haste<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In autumn to a sacred river&#8217;s shores;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">They started from her mind as grow at night<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Born from some luminous herb its glimmering rays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To her child-body youth, a charm, arrived<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Adorning every limb, a wine of joy<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To intoxicate the heart, the eyes that gazed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Shooting the arrows of love&#8217;s curving bow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Even as a painting grows beneath the hand<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of a great master, as the lotus opens<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Its petals to the flatteries of the sun,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">So into perfect roundness grew her limbs<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And opened up sweet colour, form and light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her feet limned a red rose at every step<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">On the enamoured earth; like magic flowers<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">They moved from spot to spot their petalled bloom;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her motion studied from the queenly swans<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">With wanton swaying musically timed<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The sweet-voiced anklets&#8217; murmurous refrain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">From moulded knee to ankle the supreme<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Divinely lessening curve so lovely was<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">It looked as if on this alone were spent<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">All her Creator&#8217;s cunning. Well the rest<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Might tax his labour to build half such grace,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Yet was that miracle accomplished. Soft<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 267<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In roundness, warm in their smooth sweep her thighs<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Were without parallel in Nature&#8217;s work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The greatness of her hips on which life&#8217;s girdle<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Had found its ample rest deserved already<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The lap of divine love where she alone<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Might hope one day embosomed by God to lie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Deep was her navel&#8217;s hollow where wound in<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Above her raiment&#8217;s knot that tender line<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of down as slight as the dark ray shot up<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">From the blue jewel central in her zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her waist was like an altar&#8217;s middle small<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And there the triple stair of love was built.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Twin breasts large, lovely, pale with darkened paps<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Could not allow the slender lotus thread<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">A passage, on whose either side there waited<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Softer than delicatest flowers the arms<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Which Love victorious in defeat would find<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">His chains to bow down the Eternal&#8217;s neck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her throat adorned the necklace which it wore;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Its sweep and undulation to the breast<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Outmatched the gleaming roundness of its gems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Above all this her marvellous face where met<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The golden mother of beauty and delight<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">At once the graces of her lotus throne<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And the soft lustres of the moon. Her smile<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Parted the rosy sweetness of her lips<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Like a white flower across a ruddy leaf<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Or pearls that sever lines of coral. Noble<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her speech dropped nectar from a liquid voice<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To which the co<font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00ef<\/font>l&#8217;s call seemed rude and harsh<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And sob of smitten lyres a tuneless sound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">She had exchanged with the wild woodland deer<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The startled glance of her long lovely eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Fluttering like a blue lotus in the wind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The pencilled long line of her arching brows<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Made vain the beauty of Love&#8217;s bow. Her hair&#8217;s<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Tossed masses put voluptuously to shame&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 268<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The mane of lions and the drift of clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To clasp all beauty in a little space<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He who created all this wondrous world<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Had fashioned only her. Throned in her limbs<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">All possibilities of loveliness<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Here crowded to their fair attractive seat<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And now the artist eyes that scan all things<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Saw every symbol and sweet parallel<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of beauty only realised in her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Then was he satisfied and loved his work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The sages ranging at their will the stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Saw her and knew that this indeed was she<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Who must become by love the beautiful half<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of the fair body of the Lord and all<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">His heart. This from the seers of future things<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Her father heard and his high hope renounced<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">All other but the greatest for her spouse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">She waited like an offering for the fire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">For to compel himself the divine mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He dared not, but remained like a great soul<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Which watches for the destined hour&#8217;s approach<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Curbing the impatience of its godlike hopes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">But he the spirit of the world, forsaken<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">By that first body of the mother of all<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Nor to her second birth yet come, abode<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Unwed, ascetic, stern, mid crowded worlds<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Alone and passionless and unespoused,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">The Master of the animal life absorbed<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In dreamings, wandering with his demon hordes<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Desireless in the blind desire of things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">At length he ceased; like sculptured marble still<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">To meditation turned he yoked his spirit;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Clothed in the skins of beasts, with ashes smeared<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He sat a silent shape upon the hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Below him curved Himadri&#8217;s slope; a soil<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">With fragrance of the musk-deer odorous<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Was round him, where the awful Splendour mused<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 269<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Mid cedars sprinkled with the sacred dew<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Of Ganges. Softly murmuring their chants<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In strains subdued the Kinnar minstrels sang,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">On oil-filled slabs among the resinous herbs<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">His grisly hosts sat down, their bodies stained<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">With mineral unguents, bark upon their limbs;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Ill-shaped they were and their tremendous hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Around their ears had wreathed the hillside&#8217;s flowers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">On the white rocks compact of frozen snow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">His great bull voicing low immortal pride<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Pawed with his hoof the argent soil to dust,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Alarmed the bisons fled his gaze; he bellowed<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Impatient of the mountain lion&#8217;s roar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Concentrating his world-vast energies<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Built daily his eternal shape of flame<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He who gives all austerities their fruit,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In what impenetrable and deep desire?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And though to him the worship even of gods<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Is negligible, worship the mountain gave<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And gave his daughter the Great Soul to serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Nor though to remote trance near beauty brings<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Its lovely danger, was that gift refused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Surrounded by all sweetness in the world<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He can be passionless who is creation&#8217;s king.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">She brought him daily offering of flowers<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And holy water morn and noon and eve<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And swept the altar of the divine fire<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">And heaped his altar-seat of sacred grass,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Then bending over his feet her falling locks<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Drowned all her soft fatigue of gentle toil<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">In the cool moonbeams from the Eternal&#8217;s head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">So had they met on summits of the world<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Like the still Spirit and its unwakened force,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Near were they now, yet to each other unknown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">He meditating, she in service bowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Closing awhile her vast and shining lids<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\">Fate over them paused suspended on the hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left:0pt\">\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Page \u2013 270<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" width=\"20%\" valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 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