\nPART TWO<\/b><\/p>\n
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\nBOOK FOUR<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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\nThe Book of Birth and Quest<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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\n\tCANTO ONE<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n\tTHE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF THE FLAME<\/font> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n AMAENAD of the cycles of desire<\/p>\n \n Around a Light she must notdare to touch,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Hastening towards a far-off unknown goal<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Earthfollowed the endless journey of the Sun.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A mind but half-awakein the swing of the void<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n On the bosom of Inconscience dreamedout life<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And bore this finite world of thought and deed<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Acrossthe immobile trance of the Infinite.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A vast immutable silencewith her ran:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Prisoner of speed upon a jewelled wheel,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Shecommuned with the mystic heart in Space.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Amid the ambiguousstillness of the stars<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n She moved towards some undisclosedevent<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And her rhythm measured the long whirl of Time.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Inceaseless motion round the purple rim<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Dayafter day sped by like coloured spokes,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andthrough a glamour of shifting hues of air<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The seasons drew inlinked significant dance<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The symbol pageant of the changingyear.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Across the burning langour of the soil<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Paced Summerwith his pomp of violent noons<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And stamped his tyranny oftorrid light<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And the blue seal of a great burnished sky.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nextthrough its fiery swoon or clotted knot<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Rain-tide burst inupon torn wings of heat,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Startled with lightnings air’sunquiet drowse,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Lashed with life-giving streams the torpidsoil,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Overcast with flare and sound and storm-winged dark<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thestar-defended doors of heaven’s dim sleep,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Or<\/font> fromthe gold eye of her paramour <\/font>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n Page 3<\/font><\/p>\n Coveredwith packed cloud-veils the earth’s brownface.<\/p>\n \n Annies of revolution crossed the time-field,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Theclouds’ unending march besieged the world,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Tempests’pronunciamentos claimed the sky<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And thunder drums announcedthe embattled gods.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A traveller from unquiet neighbouring seas<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thedense maned monsoon rode neighing through earth’s hours:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thicknow the emissary javelins:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Enormouslightnings split the horizon’s rim<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And, hurled from thequarters as from contending camps,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Married heaven’s edgessteep and bare and blind:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Asurge and hiss and onset of huge rain,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The long straightsleet-drift, clamours of winged storm-charge,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Throngs ofwind-faces, rushing of wind-feet<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Hurrying swept through theprone afflicted plains:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Heaven’swaters trailed and dribbled through the drowned land.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Then allwas a swift stride, a sibilant race,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/font><\/p>\n Orall was tempest’s shout and water’s fall.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Adimness sagged on the grey floor of day,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/font><\/p>\n Itsdingy sprawling length joined morn to eve,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Wallowingin sludge and shower it reached black dark.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/font><\/p>\n Daya<\/font> half darkness wore as its dulldress.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Light looked into dawn’s tarnished glass and met<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Itsown face there, twin to a half-lit night’s:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Downpourand drip and seeping mist swayed all<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And turned dry soil tobog and reeking mud:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Earthwas a quagmire, heaven a dismal block.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nonesaw through dank drenched wicks the dungeon sun.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Evenwhen no turmoil vexed air’s sombre rest,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Ora faint ray glimmered through weeping clouds<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Asa sad smile gleams veiled by returning tears,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Allpromised brightness failed at once denied<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Or,soon condemned, died like a brief-lived hope.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thena last massive deluge thrashed dead mire<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Anda subsiding mutter left all still,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Oronly the muddy creep of sinking floods<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Oronly a whisper and green toss of trees.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Earth’smood now changed; she lay in lulled repose,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thehours went by with slow contented tread:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Awide and tranquil air remembered peace,\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n <\/font><\/p>\n Page Earthwas the comrade of a happy sun.<\/p>\n \n A calmness neared as of theapproach of God,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A light of musing trance lit soil andsky.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And an identity and ecstasy<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Filled meditation’ssolitary heart.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A dream loitered in the dumb mind ofSpace,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Time opened its chambers of felicity,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n An exaltationentered and a hope:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n An inmost self looked up to a heavenlierheight,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n An inmost thought kindled a hidden flame<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And theinner sight adored an unseen sun.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Three thoughtful seasonspassed with shining tread<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And scanning one by one the pregnanthours<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Watched for a flame that lurked in luminous depths,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thevigil of some mighty birth to come.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Autumn led in the glory ofher moons<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And dreamed in the splendour of her lotus pools<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n AndWinter and Dew-time laid their calm cool hands<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n On Nature’sbosom still in a half sleep<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And deepened with hues of lax andmellow ease<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The tranquil beauty of the waning year.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n ThenSpring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And caught theearth-bride in his eager clasp;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His<\/font> adventwas a fire of irised hues,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His arms were a circle of thearrival of joy.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His voice was a call to the Transcendent’ssphere<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Whose secret touch upon our mortal lives<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Keeps evernew the thrill that made the world,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Remoulds an ancientsweetness to new shapes<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And guards intact unchanged by deathand Time<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The answer of our hearts to Nature’s charm<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andkeeps for ever new, yet still the same,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The throb that everwakes to the old delight<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And beauty and rapture and the joy tolive.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His coming brought the magic and the spell,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n At histouch life’s tired heart grew glad and young;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n He made joy awilling prisoner in her breast.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His grasp was a young god’supon earth’s limbs:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Changed by the passion of his divineoutbreak<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n He<\/font> made her body beautiful withhis kiss. <\/font>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n Page5<\/font><\/p>\n Impatientfor felicity he came,<\/p>\n \n High-fluting with the coil’s happyvoice,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His peacock turban trailing on the trees,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n His breathwas a warm summons to delight,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The dense voluptuous azure washis gaze.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A soft celestial urge surprised the blood<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Richwith the instinct of God’s sensuous joys;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Revealedin beauty, a cadence was abroad<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Insistent on therapture-thrill in life:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Immortalmovements touched the fleeting hours.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Agodlike packed intensity of sense<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Madeit a passionate pleasure even to breathe;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Allsights and voices wove a single charm.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The life of theenchanted globe became<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A storm of sweetness and of light andsong,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A revel of colour and of ecstasy,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A hymn of rays, alitany of cries:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Astrain of choral priestly music sang<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And, swung on the swayingcenser of the trees,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A sacrifice of perfume filled thehours.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Asocas burned in crimson spots of flame,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Pure likethe breath of an unstained desire<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n White jasmines haunted theenamoured air,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Pale mango-blossoms fed the liquid voice<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/font><\/p>\n Ofthe love-maddened coil, and the brown bee<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Mutteredin fragrance mid the honey-buds.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The sunlight was a greatgod’s golden smile.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n All Nature was at beauty’s festival.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/p>\n In this high signal moment of the gods<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Answering earth’syearning and her cry for bliss<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A greatness from our othercountries came.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A silence in the noise of earthlythings<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Immutably revealed the secret Word,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A mightierinflux filled the oblivious clay:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Alamp was lit, a sacred image made.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Amediating ray had touched the earth<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Bridgingthe gulf between man’s mind and God’s;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Translatingheaven into a human shape<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Its brightness linked our transienceto the Unknown.<\/font><\/p>\n \n \n \n Page6<\/font><\/p>\n Aspirit of its celestial source aware y<\/p>\n \n Descended into earth’simperfect mould<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And wept not fallen to mortality,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Butlooked on all with large and tranquil eyes.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n One had returnedfrom the transcendent planes<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And bore anew the load of mortalbreath,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Who had striven of old with our darkness and our pain;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Shetook again her divine unfinished task:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Survivorof death and the aeonic years,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Oncemore with her fathomless heart she fronted Time.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Againthere was renewed, again revealed<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Theancient closeness by earth-vision veiled,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thesecret contact broken off in Time,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Aconsanguinity of earth and heaven,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Betweenthe human portion toiling here<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andan as yet unborn and limitless Force.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Againthe mystic deep attempt began,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thedaring wager of the cosmic game.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Forsince upon this blind -and whirling globe<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Earth-plasmfirst quivered with the illumining mind<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andlife invaded the material sheath<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n AfflictingInconscience with the need to feel,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Sincein Infinity’s silence woke a word,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A Mother wisdom works in Nature's breast<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n To pour delight onthe heart of toil and want<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And press perfection on life’s stumbling powers,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Imposeheaven-sentience on the obscure abyss<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And make dumb Matterconscious of its God.<\/p>\n <\/P><\/p>\n Althoughour fallen minds forget to climb,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Although our human stuffresists or breaks,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n She keeps her will that hopes to diviniseclay;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Failurecannot repress, defeat o’erthrow;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Timecannot weary her nor the Void subdue,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The ages have not madeher passion less,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n No victory she admits of Death orFate.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Always she drives the souls to new attempt;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Alwaysher magical infinitude<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Forcesto aspire the inert brute elements;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Asone who has all infinity to waste,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n She scatters the seed ofthe Etemal's strength\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n <\/font><\/p>\n Page7<\/font><\/p>\n Ona half-animate and crumbling mould,<\/p>\n \n Plants heaven’s delight inthe heart’s passionate mire,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Pours godhead’s seekings into abare beast frame,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Hides immortality in a mask of death,<\/p>\n \n \n \n Once more that Will put on an earthly shape.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A Mind empoweredfrom Truth’s immutable seat<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Was framed for vision andinterpreting act<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And instruments were sovereignly designed<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Toexpress divinity in terrestrial signs.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Outlined by thepressure of this new descent<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A lovelier body formed than earthhad known.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n As yet a prophecy only and a hint,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The glowingarc of a charmed unseen whole,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n It came into the sky of mortallife<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Bright like the crescent horn of a gold moon<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Returningin a faint illumined eve.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n At first glimmering like an unshapedidea<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Passive she lay sheltered in wordless sleep,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Involvedand drowned in Matter’s giant trance,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n An infant heart of thedeep-caved world-plan<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n In cradle of divine inconsciencerocked<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n By the universal ecstasy of the suns.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Some missionedPower in the half-wakened frame<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nursed a transcendent birth’sdumb glorious seed<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n For which this vivid tenement was made.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Butsoon the link of soul with form grew sure;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Floodedwas the dim cave with slow conscient light,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The seed grew intoa delicate marvellous bud,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The bud disclosed a great andheavenly bloom.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n At once she seemed to found a mightierrace.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Arrived upon the strange and dubious globe<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The childremembering inly a far home<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Lived guarded in her spirit’sluminous cell,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Alone mid men in her diviner kind.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Even inher childish movements could be felt<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The nearness of a lightstill kept from earth,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Feelings that only eternity couldshare,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thoughts natural and native to the gods.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n As needingnothing but its own rapt flight<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Her nature dwelt in a strongseparate air <\/font>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n Page8<\/font><\/p>\n Likea strange bird with large rich-coloured breast<\/p>\n \n That sojournson a secret fruited bough<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Lost in the emerald glory of thewoods<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Or flies above divine unreachable tops.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Harmoniouslyshe impressed the earth with heaven.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Aligned to a swift rhythmof sheer delight<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And singing to themselves her days went by;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Eachminute was a throb of beauty’s heart,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The hours were tuned toa sweet-toned content<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Which asked for nothing, but took alllife gave<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Sovereignly as her nature’s inborn right.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nearwas her spirit to its parent Sun,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The Breath within to theeternal joy.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The first fair life that breaks from Nature’sswoon,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Mountsin a line of rapture to the skies;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Absorbedin its own happy urge it lives,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Sufficientto itself, yet turned to all.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Ithas no seen communion with its world,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Noopen converse with surrounding things.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thereis a oneness native and occult<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thatneeds no instruments and erects no form;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Inunison it grows with all that is,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n All contacts it assumes intoits trance,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Laugh-tossed consents to the wind’s kiss andtakes<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Transmutingly the shocks of sun and breeze:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Ablissful yearning riots in its leaves,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Amagic passion trembles in its blooms,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Itsboughs aspire in hushed felicity.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Anoccult godhead of this beauty is cause,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thespirit and intimate guest of all this charm,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thissweetness’s priestess and this reverie’s muse.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Invisiblyprotected from our sense<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n TheDryad lives drenched in a deeper ray<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andfeels another air of storms and calms<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andquivers inwardly with mystic rain.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thisat a heavenlier height was shown in her.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Evenwhen she bent to meet earth’s intimacies<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Herspirit kept the stature of the gods;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Itstooped but was not lost in Matter’s reign.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A world translatedwas her gleaming mind, <\/font>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n Page9<\/font><\/p>\n Andmarvel-mooned bright crowding fantasies<\/p>\n \n Fedwith spiritual sustenance of dreams<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Theideal goddess in her house of gold.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Awareof forms to which our eyes are closed,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Consciousof nearnesses we cannot feel,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n ThePower within her shaped her moulding sense<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Indeeper figures than our surface types.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Aninvisible sunlight ran within her veins<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andflooded her brain with heavenly brilliancies<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thatwoke a wider sight than earth could know.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Outlinedin the sincerity of that ray<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Herspringing childlike thoughts were richly turned<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Intoluminous patterns of her soul’s deep truth,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andfrom her eyes she cast another look<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Onall around her than man’s ignorant view.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Allobjects were to her shapes of living selves<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andshe perceived a message from her kin<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Ineach awakening touch of outward things.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Eachwas a symbol power, a vivid flash<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Inthe circuit of infinities half-known;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nothingwas alien or inanimate,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nothing without its meaning or itscall.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n For with a greater Nature she was one.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Asfrom the soil sprang glory of branch and flower,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n As from theanimal’s life rose thinking man,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A new epiphany appeared inher<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A mind of light, a life of rhythmic force,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A bodyinstinct with hidden divinity<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Prepared an image of the cominggod;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Andwhen the slow rhyme of the expanding years<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n And the richmurmurous swarm-work of the days<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Had honey-packed her senseand filled her limbs,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Accomplishing the moon-orb of hergrace,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Self-guarded in the silence of her strength<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Hersolitary greatness was not less.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Nearer the godhead to thesurface pressed,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A sun replacing childhood’s nebula<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Sovereignin a blue and lonely sky.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Upward it rose to grasp the humanscene:<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Thestrong Inhabitant turned to watch her field, <\/font>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n Page10<\/font><\/p>\n Alovelier light assumed her spirit brow<\/P><\/p>\n And sweet and solemngrew her musing gaze,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Celestial-human deep warm slumbrousfires<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Woke in the long fringed glory of her eyes<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Likealtar-burnings in a mysteried shrine.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Out of those crystalwindows gleamed a will<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n That brought a large significance tolife.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Holding her forehead’s candid stainless space<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Behindthe student arch a noble power<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Of wisdom looked from light ontransient things.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A scout of victory in a vigil tower,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Heraspiration called high destiny down,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A silent warrior paced inher city of strength<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Inviolate, guarding Truth’s diamondthrone.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A nectarous haloed moon her passionate heart<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Lovedall and spoke no word and made no sign,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n But kept her bosom’srapturous secrecy<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A blissful ardent moved and voicelessworld.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Proud, swift and joyful ran the wave of life<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Withinher like a stream in Paradise.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Many high gods dwelt in onebeautiful home;<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Yet was her nature’s orb a perfect whole,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Harmoniouslike a chant with many tones,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Immense and various like auniverse.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n The body that held this greatness seemed almost<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Animage made of heaven’s transparent light.<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Its charm recalledthings seen in vision’s hours,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A golden bridge spanning afaery flood,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A moon-touched palm tree single by alake<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Companion of the wide and glimmering peace,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A murmuras of leaves in Paradise<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n Moving when feet of the Immortalspass,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A fiery halo over sleeping hills,<\/p>\n \n \n <\/P><\/p>\n A strange andstarry head alone in Night.<\/font><\/p>\n \n \n \n Page11<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PART TWO BOOK 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