{"id":3292,"date":"2013-07-13T01:47:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:47:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:47:15","slug":"05-book-4-canto-4-the-quest-vol-02-savitri-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/02-other-editions\/01-savitri\/02-savitri-1951\/05-book-4-canto-4-the-quest-vol-02-savitri-1951","title":{"rendered":"-05_Book 4 Canto 4 The Quest.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"0\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<p><b><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">CANTO FOUR<\/font><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"0\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"0\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<b><br \/>\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\nTHE QUEST<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"0\" style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse:collapse\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" valign=\"top\" width=\"24%\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" valign=\"top\" width=\"60%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTHE world-ways opened before<br \/>\nSavitri. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAt first a strangeness of new<br \/>\nbrilliant scenes<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nPeopled her mind and kept her body&#039;s gaze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nBut as she moved across the changing earth<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nA deeper consciousness welled up in her: <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nA citizen of many scenes and<br \/>\nclimes,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nEach soil and country it has made its home; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nIt took all clans and peoples for<br \/>\nher own,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTill the whole destiny of mankind was hers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThese unfamiliar spaces on her way<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWere known and neighbours to a sense within; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nLandscapes recurred like lost<br \/>\nforgotten fields, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nCities and rivers and plains her<br \/>\nvision claimed <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nLike slow-recurring memories in<br \/>\nfront, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe stars at night were her past&#039;s<br \/>\nbrilliant friends, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe winds murmured to her of<br \/>\nancient things <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAnd she met nameless comrades loved<br \/>\nby her once. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAll was a part of old forgotten<br \/>\nselves. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nVaguely or with a flash of sudden<br \/>\nhints <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nHer acts recalled a line of bygone<br \/>\npower, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nEven her motion&#039;s purpose was not<br \/>\nnew: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTraveller to a prefigured high<br \/>\nevent, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nShe seemed to her remembering<br \/>\nwitness soul <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTo trace again a journey often<br \/>\nmade. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nA guidance turned the dumb<br \/>\nrevolving wheels <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAnd in the eager body of their<br \/>\nspeed <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe dim-masked hooded godheads rode<br \/>\nwho move <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAssigned to man immutably from his<br \/>\nbirth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nReceivers of the inner and outer<br \/>\nlaw, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAt once the agents of his spirit&#039;s<br \/>\nwill <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;28<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAnd witnesses and executors of his<br \/>\nfate.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nInexorably faithful to their task,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey hold his nature&#039;s sequence in their guard<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nCarrying the unbroken thread old lives have spun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAttendants on his destiny&#039;s measured walk<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLeading to joys he has won and pains he has called,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nEven in his casual steps they intervene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nNothing we think or do is void or vain; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nEach is an energy loosed and holds<br \/>\nits course.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe shadowy keepers of our deathless past<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHave made our fate the child of our own acts,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd from the furrows laboured by our will<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWe reap the fruit of our forgotten deeds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nBut since unseen the tree that bore this fruit<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd we live in a present born from an unknown past,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey seem but parts of a mechanic Force,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTo a mechanic mind tied by earth&#039;s laws; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nYet are they instruments of a Will<br \/>\nsupreme,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWatched by a still all-seeing Eye above.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nA prescient architect of Fate and Chance<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWho builds our lives on a foreseen design<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe meaning knows and consequence of each step<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd watches the inferior stumbling powers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nUpon her silent heights she was aware<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOf a calm Presence throned above her brows<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWho saw the goal and chose each fateful curve; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nIt used the body for its pedestal,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe eyes that wandered were its searchlight fires,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe hands that held the reins its living took; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAll was the working of an ancient<br \/>\nplan,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nA way prepared by an unerring Guide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAcross wide noons and glowing afternoons,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nShe met with Nature and with human forms<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd listened to the voices of the world; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nDriven from within she followed her<br \/>\nlong road,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nMute in the luminous cavern of her heart,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLike a bright cloud through the resplendent day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAt first her path ran far through peopled tracts: <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAdmitted to the lion eye of States<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd theatres of the loud act of man,<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\"><\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\nPage <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">29<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nHer carven chariot with its fretted<br \/>\nwheels<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThreaded through clamorous marts and sentinel towers<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nPast figured gates and high dream-sculptured fronts<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd gardens hung in the sapphire of the skies,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nPillared assembly halls with armoured guards,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSmall fanes where one calm Image watched man&#039;s life<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd temples hewn as if by exiled gods<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTo imitate their lost eternity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOften from gilded dusk to argent dawn<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhere jewel-lamps flickered on frescoed walls<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd the stone lattice stared at moonlit boughs,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHalf-conscious of the tardy listening night<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nDimly she glided between banks of sleep<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAt rest in the slumbering palaces of kings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHamlet and village saw the fate-van pass, <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"> <\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHomes of a life bent to the soil it ploughs<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nFor sustenance of its short and passing days<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThat, transient, keep their old repeated course<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nUnchanging in the circle of a sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhich alters not above our mortal toil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAway from this thinking creature&#039;s burdened hours<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTo free and griefless spaces now she turned<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nNot yet perturbed by human joys and fears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHere was the childhood of primeval earth,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHere timeless musings large and glad and still,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nMen had forborne as yet to fill with cares,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nImperial acres of the eternal sower<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd wind-stirred grass-lands winking in the sun: <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nOr mid green musing of woods and<br \/>\nrough-browed hills,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIn the grove&#039;s murmurous bee-air humming wild<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr past the long lapsing voice of silver floods<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLike a swift hope journeying among its dreams<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHastened the chariot of the golden bride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOut of the world&#039;s immense unhuman past<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTract-memories and ageless remnants came,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nDomains of light enfeoffed to an antique calm<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nListened to the unaccustomed sound of hooves<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd large immune entangled silences<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAbsorbed her into emerald secrecy<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd slow hushed wizard nets of faery bloom <\/p>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;30<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nEnvironed with their coloured snare<br \/>\nher wheels.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe strong importunate feet of Time fell soft<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAlong these lonely ways, his titan pace<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nForgotten and his stark and ruinous rounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe inner ear that listens to solitude,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLeaning self-rapt unboundedly could hear<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe rhythm of the intenser wordless Thought<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThat gathers in the silence behind life,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd the low sweet inarticulate voice of earth<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIn the great passion of her sun-kissed trance<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAscended with its yearning undertone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAfar from the brute noise of clamorous needs<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe quieted all-seeking mind could feel,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAt rest from its blind outwardness of will,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe unwearied clasp of her mute patient love<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd know for a soul the mother of our forms. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThis spirit stumbling in the fields of sense,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThis creature bruised in the mortar of the days<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nCould find in her broad spaces of release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nNot yet was a world all occupied by care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe bosom of our mother kept for us still<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHer austere regions and her musing depths,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHer impersonal reaches lonely and inspired<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd the mightinesses of her rapture haunts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nMuse-lipped she nursed her symbol mysteries<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd guarded for her pure-eyed sacraments<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe valley-clefts between her breasts of joy,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHer mountain-altars for the fires of dawn<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd nuptial beaches where the ocean couched<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd the huge chanting of her prophet woods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nFields had she of her solitary mirth,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nPlains hushed and happy in the embrace of light,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAlone with the cry of birds and hue of flowers<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd wildernesses of wonder lit by her moons<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd grey seer-evenings kindling with the stars<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd dim movement in the night&#039;s infinitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAugust, exulting in her Maker&#039;s eye,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nShe felt her nearness to him in earth&#039;s breast,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nConversed still with a Light behind the veil,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nStill communed with Eternity beyond. <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;31<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nA few and fit inhabitants she<br \/>\ncalled <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTo share the glad communion of her<br \/>\npeace, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe breadth, the summit were their<br \/>\nnatural home. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe strong king-sages from their<br \/>\nlabour done, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nFreed from the warrior tension of<br \/>\ntheir task, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nCame to her serene sessions in<br \/>\nthese wilds; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe strife was over, the respite<br \/>\nlay in front.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHappy they lived with birds and beasts and flowers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd sunlight and the rustle of the leaves,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd heard the wild winds wandering in the night,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nMused with the stars in their mute constant ranks,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd lodged in the mornings as in azure tents,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd with the glory of the noons were one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSome deeper plunged; from life&#039;s external clasp<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nBeckoned into a fiery privacy<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIn the soul&#039;s unassailed star-white recess<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey sojourned with an ever-living Bliss; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nA Voice profound in the ecstasy and<br \/>\nthe hush<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey heard, beheld an all-revealing Light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAll time-made difference they overcame; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe world was fibred with their own<br \/>\nheart-strings; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nClose-drawn to the heart that beats<br \/>\nin every breast,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey reached the one self in all through boundless love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAttuned to Silence and to the world-rhyme,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey loosened the knot of the imprisoning mind; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAchieved was the wide untroubled<br \/>\nwitness gaze,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nUnsealed was Nature&#039;s great spiritual eye; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTo the height of heights rose now<br \/>\ntheir daily climb: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTruth leaned to them from her<br \/>\nsupernal realm; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAbove them blazed eternity&#039;s mystic<br \/>\nsuns. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nNameless the austere ascetics<br \/>\nwithout home <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAbandoning speech and motion and<br \/>\ndesire, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAloof from creatures sat absorbed,<br \/>\nalone, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nImmaculate in tranquil heights of<br \/>\nself <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nOn concentration&#039;s luminous<br \/>\nvoiceless peaks, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nWorld-naked hermits with their<br \/>\nmatted hair <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nImmobile as the passionless great<br \/>\nhills <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAround them grouped like thoughts<br \/>\nof some vast mood <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAwaiting the Infinite&#039;s behest to<br \/>\nend. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe seers attuned to the universal<br \/>\nWill, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">32<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nContent in Him who smiles behind<br \/>\nearth&#039;s forms<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAbode ungrieved by the insistent days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAbout them like green trees girdling a hill<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nYoung grave disciples fashioned by their touch,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTrained to the simple act and conscious word,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nGreatened within and grew to meet their heights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nFar-wandering seekers on the Eternal&#039;s path<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nBrought to these quiet founts their spirit&#039;s thirst<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd spent the treasure of a silent hour<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nBathed in the purity of the mild gaze<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThat, uninsistent, ruled them from its peace,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd by its influence found the ways of calm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe Infants of the monarchy of the worlds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe heroic leaders of a coming time,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nKing-children nurtured in that spacious air<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLike lions gambolling in sky and sun<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nReceived half-consciously their godlike stamp: <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nFormed in the type of the high<br \/>\nthoughts they sang <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThey learned the wide magnificence<br \/>\nof mood <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThat makes us comrades of the<br \/>\ncosmic urge, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nNo longer chained to their small<br \/>\nseparate selves, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nPlastic and firm beneath the<br \/>\neternal hand, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nMet Nature with a bold and friendly<br \/>\nclasp <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAnd served in her the Power that<br \/>\nshapes her works. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nOne-souled to all and free from<br \/>\nnarrowing bonds, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nLarge like a continent of warm<br \/>\nsunshine <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nIn wide equality&#039;s impartial joy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThese sages breathed for God&#039;s<br \/>\ndelight in things. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAssisting the slow entries of the<br \/>\ngods, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nSowing in young minds immortal<br \/>\nthoughts they lived, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTaught the great Truth to which<br \/>\nman&#039;s race must rise <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nOr opened the gates of freedom to a<br \/>\nfew, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nImparting to our struggling world<br \/>\nthe Light <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThey breathed like spirits from<br \/>\nTime&#039;s dull yoke released<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nComrades and vessels of the cosmic<br \/>\nForce, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nUsing a natural mastery like the<br \/>\nsun&#039;s: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTheir speech, their silence was a<br \/>\nhelp to earth.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nA magic happiness flowed from their touch,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOneness was sovereign in that sylvan peace,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe wild beast joined in friendship with its prey,<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;33<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nPersuading the hatred and the<br \/>\nstrife to cease <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nThe love that flows from the one<br \/>\nMother&#039;s breast <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nHealed with their hearts the hard<br \/>\nand wounded world. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nOthers escaped from the confines of<br \/>\nthought <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nTo where Mind motionless sleeps<br \/>\nwaiting Light&#039;s birth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nAnd came back quivering with a<br \/>\nnameless Force <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nDrunk with a wine of lightning in<br \/>\ntheir cells; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nIntuitive knowledge leaping into<br \/>\nspeech,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHearing the subtle voice that clothes the heavens,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nCarrying the splendour that has lit the suns,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThey sang Infinity&#039;s names and deathless powers<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIn metres that reflect the moving worlds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSight&#039;s sound-waves breaking from the soul&#039;s great deeps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSome lost to the person and his strip of thought<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIn a motionless ocean of impersonal Power,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSat mighty, visioned with the Infinite&#039;s Light,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr, comrades of the everlasting Will,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSurveyed the plan of past and future Time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSome winged like birds out of the cosmic sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd vanished into a bright and featureless Vast: <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nSome silent watched the universal<br \/>\ndance,<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr helped the world by<br \/>\nworld-indifference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nSome watched no more merged in a lonely Self,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAbsorbed in the trance from which no soul returns,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAll the occult world-lines for ever closed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe chains of birth and person cast away: <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nSome uncompanioned reached the<br \/>\nIneffable. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As floats<br \/>\na sunbeam through a shady place,<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe golden virgin in her carven car<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nCame gliding among meditation&#039;s seats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOften in twilight mid returning troops<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOf cattle thickening with their dust the shades<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhen the loud day had slipped below the verge,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nArriving in a peaceful hermit grove<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nShe rested drawing round her like a cloak<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIts spirit of patient muse and potent prayer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\"><\/P><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr <\/b>near to a lion river&#039;s<br \/>\ntawny mane<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd trees that worshipped on a praying shore,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nA domed and templed air&#039;s serene repose <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;34<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nBeckoned to her hurrying wheels to<br \/>\nstay their speed.<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nIn the solemnity of a space that seemed<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nA mind remembering ancient silences,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhere to the heart great bygone voices called<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd the large liberty of brooding seers<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nHad left the long impress of their soul&#039;s scene<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAwake in candid dawn or darkness mooned,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nTo the still touch inclined the daughter of Flame<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nDrank in hushed splendour between tranquil lids<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd felt the kinship of eternal calm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nBut mom broke in reminding her of her quest<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd from low rustic couch or mat she rose<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd went impelled on her unfinished way<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd followed the fateful orbit of her life<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLike a desire that questions silent gods,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThen passes starlike to some bright Beyond.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThence to great solitary tracts she came,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhere man was a passer-by towards human scenes<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr sole in Nature&#039;s vastness strove to live<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd called for help to ensouled invisible Powers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOverwhelmed by the immensity of his world<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd unaware of his own infinity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe Earth multiplied to her a changing brow<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd called her with a far and nameless voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe mountains in their anchorite solitude,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe forests with their multitudinous chant<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nDisclosed to her the masked divinity&#039;s doors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOn dreaming plains, an indolent expanse,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThe death-bed of a pale enchanted eve<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nUnder the glamour of a sunken sky,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nImpassive she lay as at an age&#039;s end,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr crossed an eager pack of huddled hills<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nLifting their heads to hunt a lairlike sky,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr travelled in a strange and empty land<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhere desolate summits camped in a weird heaven,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nMute sentinels beneath a drifting moon,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr wandered in some lone tremendous wood<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nRinging for ever with the crickets&#039; cry,<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nOr followed a long glistening serpent road<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nThrough fields and pastures lapped in moveless light <\/p>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\" align=\"center\">\n<font size=\"2\">Page <\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;35<\/font><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;text-align: left;margin-left: 0in;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nOr reached the wild beauty of a<br \/>\ndesert space<\/P><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nWhere never plough was driven nor herd had grazed<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAnd slumbered upon stripped and thirsty sands<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nAmid the savage wild-beast Night&#039;s appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\nStill unaccomplished was the fateful quest; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:  0in;margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0;line-height:150%\">\n<p style=\"margin-left: 0in;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%\" align=\"left\">\nStill she found not the one<br \/>\npredestined face<\/P><\/p>\n<p 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failed; the sky was set like bronze. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;line-height: 150%;text-align: center;margin-top:0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEND OF BOOK FOUR<\/font><\/td>\n<td style=\"border-style: none;border-width: medium\" valign=\"top\" width=\"16%\">\n\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANTO FOUR &nbsp; THE QUEST &nbsp; &nbsp; THE world-ways opened before Savitri. 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