{"id":2443,"date":"2013-07-13T01:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:41:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:41:39","slug":"26-canto-two-the-growth-of-the-flame-vol-33-34-savitri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/33-34-savitri\/26-canto-two-the-growth-of-the-flame-vol-33-34-savitri","title":{"rendered":"-26_Canto Two &#8211; The Growth of the Flame.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"0\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\" valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\" valign=\"top\">\n<span lang=\"en-gb\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<i><font size=\"4\">Canto Two <\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<b><br \/>\n\t\t\t<i><font size=\"4\">The Growth of the Flame<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"justify\">\n<b><font size=\"5\">A<\/font> LAND<\/b> of mountains and wide sun-beat plains<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd giant rivers pacing to vast seas,<\/p>\n<p>A field of creation and spiritual hush,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSilence swallowing life&#8217;s acts into the deeps,<\/p>\n<p>Of thought&#8217;s transcendent climb and heavenward leap,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA brooding world of reverie and trance,<\/p>\n<p>Filled with the mightiest works of God and man,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tWhere Nature seemed a dream of the Divine<\/p>\n<p>And beauty and grace and grandeur had their home,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHarboured the childhood of the incarnate Flame.<\/p>\n<p>Over her watched millennial influences<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd the deep godheads of a grandiose past<\/p>\n<p>Looked on her and saw the future&#8217;s godheads come<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAs if this magnet drew their powers unseen.<\/p>\n<p>Earth&#8217;s brooding wisdom spoke to her still breast;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tMounting from mind&#8217;s last peaks to mate with gods,<\/p>\n<p>Making earth&#8217;s brilliant thoughts a springing-board<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTo dive into the cosmic vastnesses,<\/p>\n<p>The knowledge of the thinker and the seer<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSaw the unseen and thought the unthinkable,<\/p>\n<p>Opened the enormous doors of the unknown,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tRent man&#8217;s horizons into infinity.<\/p>\n<p>A shoreless sweep was lent to the mortal&#8217;s acts,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd art and beauty sprang from the human depths;<\/p>\n<p>Nature and soul vied in nobility.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tEthics the human keyed to imitate heaven;<\/p>\n<p>The harmony of a rich culture&#8217;s tones<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tRefined the sense and magnified its reach<\/p>\n<p>To hear the unheard and glimpse the invisible<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd taught the soul to soar beyond things known,<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring life to greaten and break its bounds,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>359<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aspiring to the Immortals&#8217; unseen world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tLeaving earth&#8217;s safety daring wings of Mind<\/p>\n<p>Bore her above the trodden fields of thought<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tCrossing the mystic seas of the Beyond<\/p>\n<p>To live on eagle heights near to the Sun.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThere Wisdom sits on her eternal throne.<\/p>\n<p>All her life&#8217;s turns led her to symbol doors<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAdmitting to secret Powers that were her kin;<\/p>\n<p>Adept of truth, initiate of bliss,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA mystic acolyte trained in Nature&#8217;s school,<\/p>\n<p>Aware of the marvel of created things<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tShe laid the secrecies of her heart&#8217;s deep muse<\/p>\n<p>Upon the altar of the Wonderful;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer hours were a ritual in a timeless fane;<\/p>\n<p>Her acts became gestures of sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tInvested with a rhythm of higher spheres<\/p>\n<p>The word was used as a hieratic means<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tFor the release of the imprisoned spirit<\/p>\n<p>Into communion with its comrade gods.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr it helped to beat out new expressive forms<\/p>\n<p>Of that which labours in the heart of life,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSome immemorial Soul in men and things,<\/p>\n<p>Seeker of the unknown and the unborn<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tCarrying a light from the Ineffable<\/p>\n<p>To rend the veil of the last mysteries.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tIntense philosophies pointed earth to heaven<\/p>\n<p>Or on foundations broad as cosmic Space<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tUpraised the earth-mind to superhuman heights.<\/p>\n<p>Overpassing lines that please the outward eyes<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tBut hide the sight of that which lives within<\/p>\n<p>Sculpture and painting concentrated sense<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tUpon an inner vision&#8217;s motionless verge,<\/p>\n<p>Revealed a figure of the invisible,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tUnveiled all Nature&#8217;s meaning in a form,<\/p>\n<p>Or caught into a body the Divine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe architecture of the Infinite<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>360<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Discovered here its inward-musing shapes<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tCaptured into wide breadths of soaring stone:<\/p>\n<p>Music brought down celestial yearnings, song<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHeld the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths,<\/p>\n<p>Linking the human with the cosmic cry;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe world-interpreting movements of the dance<\/p>\n<p>Moulded idea and mood to a rhythmic sway<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd posture; crafts minute in subtle lines<\/p>\n<p>Eternised a swift moment&#8217;s memory<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr showed in a carving&#8217;s sweep, a cup&#8217;s design<\/p>\n<p>The underlying patterns of the unseen:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tPoems in largeness cast like moving worlds<\/p>\n<p>And metres surging with the ocean&#8217;s voice<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTranslated by grandeurs locked in Nature&#8217;s heart<\/p>\n<p>But thrown now into a crowded glory of speech<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe beauty and sublimity of her forms,<\/p>\n<p>The passion of her moments and her moods<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tLifting the human word nearer to the god&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Man&#8217;s eyes could look into the inner realms;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHis scrutiny discovered number&#8217;s law<\/p>\n<p>And organised the motions of the stars,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tMapped out the visible fashioning of the world,<\/p>\n<p>Questioned the process of his thoughts or made<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA theorised diagram of mind and life.<\/p>\n<p>These things she took in as her nature&#8217;s food,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tBut these alone could fill not her wide Self:<\/p>\n<p>A human seeking limited by its gains,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTo her they seemed the great and early steps<\/p>\n<p>Hazardous of a young discovering spirit<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tWhich saw not yet by its own native light;<\/p>\n<p>It tapped the universe with testing knocks<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr stretched to find truth mind&#8217;s divining rod;<\/p>\n<p>There was a growing out to numberless sides,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tBut not the widest seeing of the soul,<\/p>\n<p>Not yet the vast direct immediate touch,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tNor yet the art and wisdom of the Gods.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>361<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A boundless knowledge greater than man&#8217;s thought,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA happiness too high for heart and sense<\/p>\n<p>Locked in the world and yearning for release<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tShe felt in her; waiting as yet for form,<\/p>\n<p>It asked for objects around which to grow<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd natures strong to bear without recoil<\/p>\n<p>The splendour of her native royalty,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer greatness and her sweetness and her bliss,<\/p>\n<p>Her might to possess and her vast power to love:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tEarth made a stepping-stone to conquer heaven,<\/p>\n<p>The soul saw beyond heaven&#8217;s limiting boundaries,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tMet a great light from the Unknowable<\/p>\n<p>And dreamed of a transcendent action&#8217;s sphere.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAware of the universal Self in all<\/p>\n<p>She turned to living hearts and human forms,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer soul&#8217;s reflections, complements, counterparts,<\/p>\n<p>The close outlying portions of her being<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tDivided from her by walls of body and mind<\/p>\n<p>Yet to her spirit bound by ties divine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOvercoming invisible hedge and masked defence<\/p>\n<p>And the loneliness that separates soul from soul,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tShe wished to make all one immense embrace<\/p>\n<p>That she might house in it all living things<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tRaised into a splendid point of seeing light<\/p>\n<p>Out of division&#8217;s dense inconscient cleft,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd make them one with God and world and her.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few responded to her call:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tStill fewer felt the screened divinity<\/p>\n<p>And strove to mate its godhead with their own,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tApproaching with some kinship to her heights.<\/p>\n<p>Uplifted towards luminous secrecies<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr conscious of some splendour hidden above<\/p>\n<p>They leaped to find her in a moment&#8217;s flash,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tGlimpsing a light in a celestial vast,<\/p>\n<p>But could not keep the vision and the power<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd fell back to life&#8217;s dull ordinary tone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>362<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A mind daring heavenly experiment,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tGrowing towards some largeness they felt near,<\/p>\n<p>Testing the unknown&#8217;s bound with eager touch<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey still were prisoned by their human grain:<\/p>\n<p>They could not keep up with her tireless step;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tToo small and eager for her large-paced will,<\/p>\n<p>Too narrow to look with the unborn Infinite&#8217;s gaze<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTheir nature weary grew of things too great.<\/p>\n<p>For even the close partners of her thoughts<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tWho could have walked the nearest to her ray,<\/p>\n<p>Worshipped the power and light they felt in her<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tBut could not match the measure of her soul.<\/p>\n<p>A friend and yet too great wholly to know,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tShe walked in their front towards a greater light,<\/p>\n<p>Their leader and queen over their hearts and souls,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOne close to their bosoms, yet divine and far.<\/p>\n<p>Admiring and amazed they saw her stride<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAttempting with a godlike rush and leap<\/p>\n<p>Heights for their human stature too remote<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr with a slow great many-sided toil<\/p>\n<p>Pushing towards aims they hardly could conceive;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tYet forced to be the satellites of her sun<\/p>\n<p>They moved unable to forego her light,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tDesiring they clutched at her with outstretched hands<\/p>\n<p>Or followed stumbling in the paths she made.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr longing with their self of life and flesh<\/p>\n<p>They clung to her for heart&#8217;s nourishment and support:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe rest they could not see in visible light;<\/p>\n<p>Vaguely they bore her inner mightiness.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr bound by the senses and the longing heart,<\/p>\n<p>Adoring with a turbid human love,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey could not grasp the mighty spirit she was<\/p>\n<p>Or change by closeness to be even as she.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSome felt her with their souls and thrilled with her,<\/p>\n<p>A greatness felt near yet beyond mind&#8217;s grasp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTo see her was a summons to adore,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>363<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>To be near her drew a high communion&#8217;s force.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSo men worship a god too great to know,<\/p>\n<p>Too high, too vast to wear a limiting shape;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey feel a Presence and obey a might,<\/p>\n<p>Adore a love whose rapture invades their breasts;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTo a divine ardour quickening the heart-beats,<\/p>\n<p>A law they follow greatening heart and life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOpened to the breath is a new diviner air,<\/p>\n<p>Opened to man is a freer, happier world:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHe sees high steps climbing to Self and Light.<\/p>\n<p>Her divine parts the soul&#8217;s allegiance called:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tIt saw, it felt, it knew the deity.<\/p>\n<p>Her will was puissant on their nature&#8217;s acts,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer heart&#8217;s inexhaustible sweetness lured their hearts,<\/p>\n<p>A being they loved whose bounds exceeded theirs;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer measure they could not reach but bore her touch,<\/p>\n<p>Answering with the flower&#8217;s answer to the sun<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey gave themselves to her and asked no more.<\/p>\n<p>One greater than themselves, too wide for their ken,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTheir minds could not understand nor wholly know,<\/p>\n<p>Their lives replied to hers, moved at her words:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey felt a godhead and obeyed a call,<\/p>\n<p>Answered to her lead and did her work in the world;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTheir lives, their natures moved compelled by hers<\/p>\n<p>As if the truth of their own larger selves<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tPut on an aspect of divinity<\/p>\n<p>To exalt them to a pitch beyond their earth&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey felt a larger future meet their walk;<\/p>\n<p>She held their hands, she chose for them their paths:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey were moved by her towards great unknown things,<\/p>\n<p>Faith drew them and the joy to feel themselves hers;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey lived in her, they saw the world with her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Some turned to her against their nature&#8217;s bent;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tDivided between wonder and revolt,<\/p>\n<p>Drawn by her charm and mastered by her will,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tPossessed by her, her striving to possess,<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>364<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tImpatient subjects, their tied longing hearts<\/p>\n<p>Hugging the bonds close of which they most complained,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tMurmured at a yoke they would have wept to lose,<\/p>\n<p>The splendid yoke of her beauty and her love:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOthers pursued her with life&#8217;s blind desires<\/p>\n<p>And claiming all of her as their lonely own,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHastened to engross her sweetness meant for all.<\/p>\n<p>As earth claims light for its lone separate need<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tDemanding her for their sole jealous clasp,<\/p>\n<p>They asked from her movements bounded like their own<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd to their smallness craved a like response.<\/p>\n<p>Or they repined that she surpassed their grip,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd hoped to bind her close with longing&#8217;s cords.<\/p>\n<p>Or finding her touch desired too strong to bear<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThey blamed her for a tyranny they loved,<\/p>\n<p>Shrank into themselves as from too bright a sun,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tYet hankered for the splendour they refused.<\/p>\n<p>Angrily enamoured of her sweet passionate ray<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe weakness of their earth could hardly bear,<\/p>\n<p>They longed but cried out at the touch desired<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tInapt to meet divinity so close,<\/p>\n<p>Intolerant of a Force they could not house.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSome drawn unwillingly by her divine sway<\/p>\n<p>Endured it like a sweet but alien spell;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tUnable to mount to levels too sublime,<\/p>\n<p>They yearned to draw her down to their own earth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr forced to centre round her their passionate lives,<\/p>\n<p>They hoped to bind to their heart&#8217;s human needs<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer glory and grace that had enslaved their souls.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 25pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tBut mid this world, these hearts that answered her call,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tNone could stand up her equal and her mate.<\/p>\n<p>In vain she stooped to equal them with her heights,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tToo pure that air was for small souls to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>These comrade selves to raise to her own wide breadths<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer heart desired and fill with her own power<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>365<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>That a diviner Force might enter life,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA breath of Godhead greaten human time.<\/p>\n<p>Although she leaned down to their littleness<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tCovering their lives with her strong passionate hands<\/p>\n<p>And knew by sympathy their needs and wants<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd dived in the shallow wave-depths of their lives<\/p>\n<p>And met and shared their heart-beats of grief and joy<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd bent to heal their sorrow and their pride,<\/p>\n<p>Lavishing the might that was hers on her lone peak<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tTo lift to it their aspiration&#8217;s cry,<\/p>\n<p>And though she drew their souls into her vast<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd surrounded with the silence of her deeps<\/p>\n<p>And held as the great Mother holds her own,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOnly her earthly surface bore their charge<\/p>\n<p>And mixed its fire with their mortality:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer greater self lived sole, unclaimed, within.<\/p>\n<p>Oftener in dumb Nature&#8217;s stir and peace<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA nearness she could feel serenely one;<\/p>\n<p>The Force in her drew earth&#8217;s subhuman broods;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd to her spirit&#8217;s large and free delight<\/p>\n<p>She joined the ardent-hued magnificent lives<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOf animal and bird and flower and tree.<\/p>\n<p>They answered to her with the simple heart.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tIn man a dim disturbing somewhat lives;<\/p>\n<p>It knows but turns away from divine Light<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tPreferring the dark ignorance of the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many who came drawn to her<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tNowhere she found her partner of high tasks,<\/p>\n<p>The comrade of her soul, her other self<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tWho was made with her, like God and Nature, one.<\/p>\n<p>Some near approached, were touched, caught fire, then failed,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tToo great was her demand, too pure her force.<\/p>\n<p>Thus lighting earth around her like a sun,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tYet in her inmost sky an orb aloof,<\/p>\n<p>A distance severed her from those most close.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tPuissant, apart her soul as the gods live.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>366<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 25pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAs yet unlinked with the broad human scene,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tIn a small circle of young eager hearts,<\/p>\n<p>Her being&#8217;s early school and closed domain,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tApprentice in the business of earth-life,<\/p>\n<p>She schooled her heavenly strain to bear its touch,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tContent in her little garden of the gods<\/p>\n<p>As blooms a flower in an unvisited place.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tEarth nursed, unconscious still, the inhabiting flame,<\/p>\n<p>Yet something deeply stirred and dimly knew;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThere was a movement and a passionate call,<\/p>\n<p>A rainbow dream, a hope of golden change;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tSome secret wing of expectation beat,<\/p>\n<p>A growing sense of something new and rare<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd beautiful stole across the heart of Time.<\/p>\n<p>Then a faint whisper of her touched the soil,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tBreathed like a hidden need the soul divines;<\/p>\n<p>The eye of the great world discovered her<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd wonder lifted up its bardic voice.<\/p>\n<p>A key to a Light still kept in being&#8217;s cave,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe sun-word of an ancient mystery&#8217;s sense,<\/p>\n<p>Her name ran murmuring on the lips of men<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tExalted and sweet like an inspired verse<\/p>\n<p>Struck from the epic lyre of rumour&#8217;s winds<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tOr sung like a chanted thought by the poet Fame.<\/p>\n<p>But like a sacred symbol&#8217;s was that cult.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAdmired, unsought, intangible to the grasp<\/p>\n<p>Her beauty and flaming strength were seen afar<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tLike lightning playing with the fallen day,<\/p>\n<p>A glory unapproachably divine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tNo equal heart came close to join her heart,<\/p>\n<p>No transient earthly love assailed her calm,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tNo hero passion had the strength to seize;<\/p>\n<p>No eyes demanded her replying eyes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA Power within her awed the imperfect flesh;<\/p>\n<p>The self-protecting genius in our clay<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tDivined the goddess in the woman&#8217;s shape<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>367<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And drew back from a touch beyond its kind<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tThe earth-nature bound in sense-life&#8217;s narrow make.<\/p>\n<p>The hearts of men are amorous of clay-kin<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAnd bear not spirits lone and high who bring<\/p>\n<p>Fire-intimations from the deathless planes<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tToo vast for souls not born to mate with heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever is too great must lonely live.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAdored he walks in mighty solitude;<\/p>\n<p>Vain is his labour to create his kind,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHis only comrade is the Strength within.<\/p>\n<p>Thus was it for a while with Savitri.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tAll worshipped marvellingly, none dared to claim.<\/p>\n<p>Her mind sat high pouring its golden beams,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tHer heart was a crowded temple of delight.<\/p>\n<p>A single lamp lit in perfection&#8217;s house,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tA bright pure image in a priestless shrine,<\/p>\n<p>Midst those encircling lives her spirit dwelt,<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tApart in herself until her hour of fate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%;text-indent: 0pt;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\tE<font size=\"2\">ND OF<\/font><br \/>\n\t\t\tC<font size=\"2\">ANTO<\/font>  T<font size=\"2\">WO<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n\t\t\t<font size=\"2\">Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u2013 <\/font>368<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Canto Two &nbsp; The Growth of the Flame &nbsp; A LAND of mountains and wide sun-beat plains And giant rivers pacing to vast 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