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\nBOOK ELEVEN<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

\nThe Book of Everlasting Day<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nCANTO ONE<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nTHE ETERNAL DAY:-THE SOUL’S CHOICE AND<\/b><\/p>\n

\n THE SUPREME CONSUMMATION<\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t <\/td>\n\n

\nA
\n <\/font>
\nMARVELLOUS<\/font> sun looked down from ecstasy’s skies<\/P><\/p>\n

\nOn worlds of deathless bliss, perfection’s home,<\/p>\n

\nMagical unfoldings of the Eternal’s smile<\/p>\n

\nCapturing his secret heart-beats of delight.<\/p>\n

\nGod’s everlasting day surrounded her,<\/p>\n

\nDomains appeared1<\/sup> of sempiternal light<\/p>\n

\nInvading all Nature with the Absolute’s joy.<\/p>\n

\nHer body quivered with eternity’s touch,<\/p>\n

\nHer soul stood close to the founts of the infinite.<\/p>\n

\nInfinity’s finite fronts she lived in, new<\/p>\n

\nFor ever to an everlasting sight.<\/p>\n

\nEternity multiplied its vast self-look<\/p>\n

\nTranslating its endless mightiness and joy<\/p>\n

\nInto delight souls playing with Time could share<\/p>\n

\nIn grandeurs ever new-born from the unknown depths,<\/p>\n

\nIn powers that leaped immortal from unknown heights,<\/p>\n

\nIn passionate heart-beats of an undying love,<\/p>\n

\nIn scenes of a sweetness that can never fade.<\/p>\n

\nImmortal to the rapturous heart and eyes,<\/p>\n

\nIn serene arches of translucent calm<\/p>\n

\nFrom Wonder’s dream-vasts cloudless skies slid down<\/p>\n

\nAn abyss of sapphire; sunlight visited eyes<\/p>\n

\nWhich suffered without pain the absolute ray<\/p>\n

\nAnd saw immortal clarities of form.<\/p>\n

\nTwilight and mist were exiles from that air,<\/p>\n

\nNight was impossible to such radiant heavens.<\/p>\n

\nFinn in the bosom of immensity <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n    1<\/sup>Alternative: "Were there"  <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nSpiritual breadths were seen,
\nsublimely born<\/P><\/p>\n

\nFrom a still beauty of creative joy,<\/p>\n

\nEmbodied thoughts to sweet dimensions held<\/p>\n

\nTo please some carelessness of divine peace<\/p>\n

\nAnswered the deep demand of an infinite sense<\/p>\n

\nAnd its need of forms to house its bodiless thrill.<\/p>\n

\nA march of universal power in Time,<\/p>\n

\nThe harmonic order of self’s vastitudes<\/p>\n

\nIn cyclic symmetries and metric planes<\/p>\n

\nHarboured a cosmic rapture’s revelry<\/p>\n

\nIn an endless figuring of the spirit in things<\/p>\n

\nPlanned by the artist who has dreamed the worlds; <\/font><\/p>\n

\nOf all the beauty and the marvel here, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nOf all Time’s intricate variety <\/font><\/p>\n

\nEternity was the substance and the source, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNot from a plastic mist of Matter made, <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThey offered the suggestion of their depths <\/font><\/p>\n

\nAnd opened the great series of
\ntheir powers. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nArisen beneath a triple mystic
\nheaven <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe seven immortal earths were seen
\nsublime: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHomes of the blest released from
\ndeath and sleep <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhere grief can never come nor any
\npang <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nArriving from self-lost and seeking
\nworlds <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAlter Heaven-nature’s changeless
\nquietude <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd mighty posture of eternal calm, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIts pose of ecstasy immutable. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPlains lay that seemed the expanse
\nof God’s wide sleep, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThought’s wings climbed up towards
\nheaven’s vast repose <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLost in blue deeps of immortality. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA changed earth-nature felt the
\nbreath of peace. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAir seemed an ocean of felicity <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOr the couch of the unknown
\nspiritual rest, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA vast quiescence swallowing up all
\nsound <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInto a voicelessness of utter
\nbliss; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEven Matter brought a close
\nspiritual touch,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAll thrilled with the immanence of one divine.<\/p>\n

\nThe lowest of these earths was still a heaven<\/p>\n

\nTranslating into the splendour of things divine<\/p>\n

\nThe beauty and brightness of terrestrial scenes.<\/p>\n

\nEternal mountains ridge on gleaming ridge\n<\/p>\n

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\nWhose lines were graved as on a
\nsapphire plate <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd etched the borders of heaven’s
\nlustrous noon <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nClimbed like piled temple stairs
\nand from their heads <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf topless meditation heard below <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe approach of a blue pilgrim
\nmultitude <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd listened to a great arriving
\nvoice <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf the wide travel hymn of timeless
\nseas. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA chanting crowd from mountain
\nbosoms slipped <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPast branches fragrant with a sigh
\nof flowers<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHurrying through sweetnesses with revel leaps, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe murmurous rivers of felicity <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDivinely rippled, honey-voiced
\ndesires, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMingling their sister eddies of
\ndelight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThen, widening to a pace of
\ncalm-lipped muse <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDown many-glimmered estuaries of
\ndream <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWent whispering into lakes of
\nliquid peace. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOn <\/b> a brink held of senseless
\necstasy<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd guarding an eternal poise of thought <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nSat sculptured souls dreaming by
\nrivers of sound <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn changeless attitudes of marble
\nbliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAround her lived the children of
\nGod’s day <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn an unspeakable felicity, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA happiness never lost, the
\nimmortal’s ease, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA glad eternity’s blissful
\nmultitude. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAround, the deathless nations moved
\nand spoke, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSouls of a luminous celestial joy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFaces of stark beauty, limbs of the
\nmoulded Ray; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn cities cut like gems of
\nconscious stone <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd wonderful pastures and on
\ngleaming coasts <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBright forms were seen, eternity’s
\nluminous tribes. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAbove her rhythming godheads
\nwhirled the spheres, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRapt mobile fixities here blindly
\nsought <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBy the huge erring orbits of our
\nstars. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEcstatic voices smote at hearing’s
\nchords, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEach movement found a music all its
\nown,. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSongs thrilled of birds upon
\nunfading boughs, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe colours of whose plumage had
\nbeen caught <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFrom the rainbow of imagination’s
\nwings. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImmortal fragrance packed the
\nquivering breeze, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn groves that seemed moved bosoms
\nand trembling depths <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe million children of the undying
\nspring<\/P><\/p>\n

\nBloomed, pure unnumbered stars of hued delight<\/p>\n

\nNestling for shelter in their emerald sky: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nFaery flower-masses looked with
\nlaughing eyes.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA dancing chaos, an iridescent sea<\/p>\n

\nEternised to Heaven’s ever wakeful sight<\/p>\n

\nThe crowding petal-glow of marvel’s tints<\/p>\n

\nWhich float across the curtained lids of dream.<\/p>\n

\nImmortal harmonies filled her listening ear; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA great spontaneous utterance of
\nthe heights<\/P><\/p>\n

\nOn titan wings of rhythmic grandeur borne,<\/p>\n

\nPoured from some deep spiritual heart of sound<\/p>\n

\nStrains trembling with the secrets of the gods.<\/p>\n

\nA spirit wandered happily in the wind,<\/p>\n

\nA spirit brooded in the leaf and stone; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe voices of thought-conscious
\ninstruments <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAlong a living verge of silence
\nstrayed, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd from some deep, a wordless
\ntongue of things <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nUnfathomed, inexpressible,
\nchantings rose <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTranslating into a voice the
\nUnknown. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA climber on the invisible stair of
\nsound, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMusic not with these few and
\nstriving steps <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAspired that wander upon transient
\nstrings;. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut changed its ever new uncounted
\nnotes <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a passion of unforeseeing
\ndiscovery, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd kept its old unforgotten
\necstasies <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA growing treasure in the mystic
\nheart. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA consciousness that yearned
\nthrough every cry <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf unexplored attraction and
\ndesire, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt found and searched again the
\nunsatisfied deeps <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHunting as if in some deep secret
\nheart <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo find some lost or missed
\nfelicity. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn those far-lapsing symphonies she
\ncould hear <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBreaking through enchantments of
\nthe ravished sense, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe lyric voyage of a divine soul <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMid spume and laughter tempting
\nwith its prow <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe charm of innocent Circean
\nisles, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAdventures without danger beautiful <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn lands where siren Wonder sings
\nits lures <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFrom rhythmic rocks in ever-foaming
\nseas. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nIn the harmony of an original sight<\/P><\/p>\n

\nDelivered from our limiting ray of thought,<\/p>\n

\nAnd the reluctance of our blinded hearts<\/p>\n

\nTo embrace the Godhead in whatever guise,<\/p>\n

\nShe saw all Nature marvellous without fault.<\/p>\n

\nInvaded by beauty’s universal revel<\/p>\n

\nHer being’s fibre reached out vibrating<\/p>\n

\nAnd claimed deep union with its outer selves,<\/p>\n

\nAnd on the heart’s chords made pure to seize all tones<\/p>\n

\n Heaven’s subtleties of touch unwearying forced<\/p>\n

\nMore vivid raptures than earth’s life can bear.<\/p>\n

\nWhat would be suffering here, was fiery bliss.<\/p>\n

\nAll here but passionate hint and mystic shade<\/p>\n

\nDivined by the inner prophet who perceives<\/p>\n

\nThe spirit of delight in sensuous things,<\/p>\n

\nTurned to more sweetness than can now be dreamed.<\/p>\n

\nThe mighty signs of which earth fears the stress,<\/p>\n

\nTrembling because she cannot understand,<\/p>\n

\nAnd must keep obscure in forms strange and sublime,<\/p>\n

\nWere here the first lexicon of an infinite mind<\/p>\n

\nTranslating the language of eternal bliss.<\/p>\n

\nHere rapture was a common incident,<\/p>\n

\nThe lovelinesses of whose captured thrill<\/p>\n

\nOur human pleasure is a fallen thread,<\/p>\n

\nLay, symbol shapes, a careless ornament,<\/p>\n

\nSewn on the rich brocade of Godhead’s dress.<\/p>\n

\nThings fashioned were the imaged homes where mind<\/p>\n

\nArrived to fathom a deep physical joy,<\/p>\n

\nThe heart was a torch lit from infinity,<\/p>\n

\nThe limbs were trembling densities of soul.<\/p>\n

\nThese were the first domains, the outer courts<\/p>\n

\nImmense but least in range and least in price,<\/p>\n

\nThe slightest ecstasies of the undying gods.<\/p>\n

\nHigher her swing of vision swept and knew,<\/p>\n

\nAdmitted through large sapphire opening gates<\/p>\n

\nInto the wideness of a light beyond,<\/p>\n

\nThese were but sumptuous decorated doors<\/p>\n

\nTo worlds nobler, more felicitously fair.<\/p>\n

\nEndless aspired the climbing of those heavens; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nRealm upon realm received her
\nsoaring view. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n


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\nThen on what seemed one crown of
\nthe ascent <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhere finite and the infinite are
\none, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImmune she beheld the strong
\nimmortals’ seats <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho live for a celestial joy and
\nrule <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe middle regions of the unfading
\nRay. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGreat forms of deities sat in
\ndeathless tiers, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEyes of an unborn gaze towards her
\nleaned <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThrough a transparency of crystal
\nfire. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the beauty of bodies wrought
\nfrom rapture’s lines, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShapes of entrancing sweetness
\nstilling bliss, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFeet glimmering upon the sun-stone
\ncourts of mind, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHeaven’s cup-bearers bore round the
\nEtemal’s wine; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA tangle of bright bodies, of moved
\nsouls <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTracing the close and intertwined
\ndelight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe harmonious tread of lives for
\never joined <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the passionate oneness of a
\nmystic joy <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAs if sun-beams made living and
\ndivine, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe golden-bosomed Apsara
\ngoddesses, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn groves flooded from an argent
\ndisk of bliss <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat floated through a luminous
\nsapphire dream, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a cloud of raiment lit with
\ngolden limbs <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd gleaming footfalls treading
\nfaery swards, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVirgin motions of bacchant
\ninnocences <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho know their riot for a dance of
\nGod <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhirled linked in moonlit revels of
\nthe heart. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImpeccable artists of unerring
\nforms, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMagician builders of sound and
\nrhythmic words, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWind-haired Gundhurvas chanted to
\nthe ear <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe odes that shape the universal
\nthought, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe lines that tear the veil from
\nDeity’s face, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe rhythms that bring the sounds
\nof wisdom’s sea. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImmortal figures and illumined
\nbrows, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOur great forefathers in those
\nsplendours moved; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTermless in power and satisfied of
\nlight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey enjoyed the sense of all for
\nwhich we strive. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHigh seers, moved poets saw the
\neternal thoughts <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat, travellers from on high,
\narrive to us <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDeformed by our search, tricked by
\ncostuming mind, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLike gods disfigured by the pangs
\nof birth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSeized the great words which now
\nare frail sounds caught <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nBy difficult rapture on a mortal
\ntongue.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe strong who stumble and sin were calm proud gods.<\/p>\n

\nThere lightning-filled with glory and with flame,<\/p>\n

\nMelting in waves of sympathy and sight,<\/p>\n

\nSmitten like a lyre thai throbs to others’ bliss,<\/p>\n

\nDrawn by the cords of ecstasies unknown,<\/p>\n

\nHer human nature faint with heaven’s delight,<\/p>\n

\nShe beheld the clasp to earth denied and bore<\/p>\n

\nThe imperishable eyes of veilless love,<\/p>\n

\nMore climbed above, level to level reached,<\/p>\n

\nBeyond what tongue can utter or mind dream: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nWorlds of an infinite reach crowned
\nNature’s stir. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere was a greater tranquil
\nsweetness there, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA subtler and profounder ether’s
\nfield <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd mightier scheme than
\nheavenliest sense can give. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere breath carried a stream of
\nseeing mind, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nForm was a tenuous raiment of the
\nsoul: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nColour was a visible tone of
\necstasy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShapes seen half immaterial by the
\ngaze <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd yet voluptuously palpable <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMade sensible to touch the
\nindwelling spirit. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe high perfected sense illumined
\nlived <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA happy vassal of the inner ray, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEach feeling was the Etemal’s
\nmighty child <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd every thought was a sweet
\nburning god. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAir was a luminous feeling, sound a
\nvoice, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSunlight the soul’s vision and
\nmoonlight its dream. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOn a<\/b> wide living base of
\nwordless calm <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll was a potent and a lucid joy. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInto those heights her spirit went
\nfloating up <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLike an upsoaring bird who mounts
\nunseen <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVoicing to the ascent his throbbing
\nheart <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf melody till a pause of closing
\nwings <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nComes quivering in his last
\ncontented cry <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd he is silent with his soul
\ndischarged, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDelivered of his heart’s burden of
\ndelight. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nExperience mounted on joy’s
\ncoloured breast <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo inaccessible spheres in spiral
\nflight. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere Time dwelt with Eternity as
\none, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImmense felicity joined rapt
\nrepose. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\n     As one
\ndrowned in a sea of splendour and bliss<\/font><\/p>\n

\n<\/P><\/p>\n

\nMute in the maze of these surprising worlds<\/p>\n

\nTurning she saw their living knot and source,<\/p>\n

\nKey to their charm and fount of their delight,<\/p>\n

\nAnd knew him for the same who snares our lives<\/p>\n

\nCaptured in his terrifying pitiless net,<\/p>\n

\nAnd makes the universe his prison camp<\/p>\n

\nAnd makes in his immense and vacant vasts<\/p>\n

\nThe labour of the stars a circuit vain<\/p>\n

\nAnd death the end of every human road<\/p>\n

\nAnd grief and pain the wages of man’s toil.<\/p>\n

\nOne whom her soul had faced as Death and Night<\/p>\n

\nA sum of all sweetness gathered into his limbs<\/p>\n

\nAnd blinded her heart to the beauty of the suns.<\/p>\n

\nTransfigured was the formidable shape.<\/p>\n

\nHis darkness and his sad destroying might<\/p>\n

\nAbolishing for ever and disclosing<\/p>\n

\nThe mystery of his high and violent deeds,<\/p>\n

\nA secret splendour rose revealed to sight<\/p>\n

\nWhere once the vast embodied Void had stood.<\/p>\n

\nNight the dim mask had grown a wonderful face.<\/p>\n

\nThe vague infinity was slain whose gloom<\/p>\n

\nHad outlined from the terrible Unknown<\/p>\n

\nThe obscure disastrous figure of a god,<\/p>\n

\nFled was the error that arms the hands of grief,<\/p>\n

\nAnd lighted the ignorant gulf whose hollow deeps<\/p>\n

\nHad given to nothingness a dreadful voice.<\/p>\n

\nAs when before the eye that wakes in sleep<\/p>\n

\nIs opened the sombre binding of a book,<\/p>\n

\nIllumined letterings are seen which kept<\/p>\n

\nA golden blaze of thought inscribed within,<\/p>\n

\nA marvellous form responded to her gaze<\/p>\n

\nWhose sweetness justified life’s blindest pain; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll Nature’s struggle was its easy
\nprice, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe universe and its agony seemed
\nworth while. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAs if the choric calyx of a flower <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAerial, visible on music’s waves, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA lotus of light-petalled ecstasy <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTook shape out of the tremulous
\nheart of things. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere was no more the torment under
\nthe stars, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe evil sheltered behind Nature’s
\nmask; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere was no more the dark pretence
\nof hate,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe cruel ictus on Love’s altered face.<\/p>\n

\nHate was the grip of a dreadful amour’s strife; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA ruthless love intent only to
\npossess<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHas here replaced the sweet original god; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nForgetting the Will-to-love that
\ngave it birth,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe passion to lock itself in and to unite,<\/p>\n

\nIt would swallow all into one lonely self,<\/p>\n

\nDevouring the soul that it had made its own,<\/p>\n

\nBy suffering and annihilation’s pain<\/p>\n

\nPunishing the unwillingness to be one,<\/p>\n

\nAngry with the refusals of the world,<\/p>\n

\nPassionate to take but knowing not how to give.<\/p>\n

\nDeath’s sombre cowl was cast from Nature’s brow; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThere lightened on her the
\ngodhead’s lurking love.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAll grace and glory and all divinity<\/p>\n

\nWere here collected in a single form; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll worshipped eyes looked through
\nhis from one face; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe bore all godheads in his
\ngrandiose limbs.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAn oceanic spirit dwelt within; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIntolerant and invincible in joy<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA flood of freedom and transcendent bliss<\/p>\n

\nInto immortal lines of beauty rose.<\/p>\n

\nIn him the fourfold Being bore its crown<\/p>\n

\nThat wears the mystery of a nameless Name,<\/p>\n

\nThe universe writing its tremendous sense<\/p>\n

\nIn the inexhaustible meaning of a word.<\/p>\n

\nIn him the architect of the visible world,<\/p>\n

\nAt once the art and artist of his works,<\/p>\n

\nSpirit and seer and thinker of things seen,<\/p>\n

\nVirat, who lights his camp-fires in the suns<\/p>\n

\nAnd the star-entangled ether is his hold,<\/p>\n

\nExpressed himself with Matter for his speech: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nObjects are his letters, forces are
\nhis words,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nEvents are the crowded history of his life,<\/p>\n

\nAnd sea and land are the pages of his tale,<\/p>\n

\nMatter is his means and his spiritual sign; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nHe hangs the thought upon a lash’s
\nlift,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nIn the current of the blood makes flow the soul, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nHis is the dumb will of atom and of
\nclod; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA Will that without sense or motive
\nacts,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAn Intelligence needing not to think or plan,<\/p>\n

\nThe world creates itself invincibly; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nFor its body is the body of the
\nLord<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd in its heart stands Virat, King of kings.<\/p>\n

\nIn him shadows his form the Golden Child<\/p>\n

\nWho in the Sun-capped Vast cradles his birth: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nHiranyagarbha, author of thoughts
\nand dream,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nWho sees the invisible and hears the sounds<\/p>\n

\nThat never visited a mortal ear,<\/p>\n

\nDiscoverer of unthought realities,<\/p>\n

\nTruer to Truth than all we have ever known,<\/p>\n

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\nHe is the leader on the inner
\nroads; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nA seer, he has entered the
\nforbidden realms; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA magician with the omnipotent wand
\nof thought,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHe builds the secret uncreated worlds.<\/p>\n

\nArmed with the golden speech, the diamond eye,<\/p>\n

\nHis is the vision and the prophecy: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nImagist casting the formless into
\nshape,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nTraveller and hewer of the unseen paths,<\/p>\n

\nHe is the carrier of the hidden fire,<\/p>\n

\nHe is the voice of the Ineffable,<\/p>\n

\nHe is the invisible hunter of the light,<\/p>\n

\nThe Angel of mysterious ecstasies,<\/p>\n

\nThe conqueror of the kingdoms of the soul.<\/p>\n

\nA third spirit stood behind, their hidden cause,<\/p>\n

\nA mass of superconscience closed in light,<\/p>\n

\nCreator of things in his all-knowing sleep.<\/p>\n

\nAll from his stillness came as grows a tree; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nHe is our seed and core, our head
\nand base.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAll light is but a flash from his closed eyes: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAn all-wise Truth is mystic in his
\nheart,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe omniscient Ray is shut behind his lids: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nHe is the Wisdom that comes not by
\nthought,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHis wordless silence brings the immortal word.<\/p>\n

\nHe sleeps in the atom and the burning star,<\/p>\n

\nHe sleeps in man and god and beast and stone: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nBecause he is there the Inconscient
\ndoes its work,<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nBecause he is there the world
\nforgets to die, <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nHe is the centre of the circle of
\nGod,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHe is the circumference of Nature’s run.<\/p>\n

\nHis slumber is an Almightiness in things,<\/p>\n

\nAwake, he is the Eternal and Supreme.<\/p>\n

\nAbove was the brooding bliss of the Infinite,<\/p>\n

\nIts omniscient and omnipotent repose,<\/p>\n

\nIts immobile silence absolute and alone.<\/p>\n

\nAll powers were woven in countless concords here.<\/p>\n

\nThe bliss that made the world in his body lived.<\/p>\n

\nLove and delight were the head of the sweet form,<\/p>\n

\nIn the alluring meshes of their snare<\/p>\n

\nRecaptured the proud blissful members held<\/p>\n

\nAll joys outrunners of the panting heart<\/p>\n

\nAnd fugitive from life’s outstripped desire.<\/p>\n

\nWhatever vision has escaped the eye,<\/p>\n

\nWhatever happiness comes in dream and trance,<\/p>\n

\nThe nectar spilled by love with trembling hands,<\/p>\n

\nThe joy the cup of Nature cannot hold,<\/p>\n

\nHad crowded to the beauty of his face,<\/p>\n

\nWere waiting in the honey of his laugh.<\/p>\n

\nThings hidden by the silence of the hours,<\/p>\n

\nThe ideas that find no voice on living lips,<\/p>\n

\nThe soul’s pregnant meeting with infinity<\/p>\n

\nHad come to birth in him and taken fire: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe secret whisper of the flower
\nand star<\/P><\/p>\n

\nRevealed its meaning in his fathomless look.<\/p>\n

\nHis lips curved eloquent like a rose of dawn; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nHis smile that played with the
\nwonder of the mind<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd stayed in the heart when it had left his mouth<\/p>\n

\nGlimmered with the radiance of the morning star<\/p>\n

\nGemming the wide discovery of heaven.<\/p>\n

\nHis gaze was the regard of eternity; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe spirit of its sweet and calm
\nintent<\/P><\/p>\n

\nWas a wise home of gladness and divulged<\/p>\n

\nThe light of the ages in the mirth of the hours,<\/p>\n

\nA sun of wisdom in a miracled grove.<\/p>\n

\nIn the orchestral largeness of his mind<\/p>\n

\nAll contrary seekings their close kinship knew,<\/p>\n

\nRich-hearted, wonderful to each other met<\/p>\n

\nIn the mutual marvelling of their myriad notes\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd dwelt like brothers of one
\nfamily <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho had found their common and
\nmysterious home. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAs from the harp of some ecstatic
\ngod <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere springs a harmony of lyric
\nbliss <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nStriving to leave no heavenly joy
\nunsung;, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSuch was the life in that embodied
\nLight. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe seemed the wideness of a
\nboundless sky, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe seemed the passion of a
\nsorrowless earth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe seemed the burning of a
\nworld-wide sun. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTwo looked upon each other. Soul
\nsaw Soul <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\n     Then like
\nan anthem from the heart’s lucent cave<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA voice soared up whose magic sound could turn<\/p>\n

\nThe poignant weeping of the earth to sobs<\/p>\n

\nOf rapture and her cry to spirit song: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n"0 human image of the deathless
\nword, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHow hast thou seen beyond the topaz
\nwalls <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe gleaming sisters of the divine
\ngate, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSummoned the genii of their wakeful
\nsleep, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd under revelation’s arches
\nforced <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe carved thought-shrouded doors
\nto swing apart, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nUnlocked the avenues of spiritual
\nsight <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd taught1<\/sup> the entries
\nof a heavenlier state <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo thy rapt soul that bore the
\ngolden key? <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn thee the secret sight man’s
\nblindness missed <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHas opened its view past Time, my
\nchariot course, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd death, my tunnel which I drive
\nthrough life <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo reach my unseen distances of
\nbliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am the hushed search of the
\njealous gods <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPursuing my wisdom’s vast
\nmysterious work <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSeized in the thousand meeting ways
\nof heaven., <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am the beauty of the unveiled Ray <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDrawing through the deep roads of
\nthe infinite night <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe unconquerable pilgrim soul of
\nearth <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBeneath the flaring torches of the
\nstars. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI am the inviolable Ecstasy; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey who have looked on me, shall
\ngrieve no more.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe eyes that live in night shall see my form. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nOn the pale shores of conscious
\nfoaming straits<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThat flow beneath a grey tormented sky<\/p>\n

\nTwo powers from one original ecstasy born<\/p>\n

\nPace near, but parted in the life of man; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nOne leans to earth, the other
\nyearns to the skies: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHeaven in its rapture dreams of
\nperfect earth,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nEarth in its sorrow dreams of perfect heaven.<\/p>\n

\nThe two longing to join, yet walk apart,<\/p>\n

\nIdly divided by their vain conceits,<\/p>\n

\nThey are kept from their oneness by enchanted fears; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nSundered mysteriously by miles of
\nthought,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThey gaze across the silent gulfs of sleep.<\/p>\n

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\nOr side by side reclined upon my vasts<\/p>\n

\nLike bride and bridegroom magically divorced<\/p>\n

\nThey wake to yearn, but never can they clasp<\/p>\n

\nWhile thinly flickering hesitates uncrossed<\/p>\n

\nBetween the lovers on their nuptial couch<\/p>\n

\nThe shadowy eidolon of a sword.<\/p>\n

\nBut when the phantom flame-edge fails undone,<\/p>\n

\nThen never more can space or time divide<\/p>\n

\nThe lover from the loved; space shall draw back<\/p>\n

\nHer great translucent curtain. Time shall be<\/p>\n

\nThe quivering of the spirit’s endless bliss.<\/p>\n

\nAttend that moment of celestial fate.<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile you two shall serve the dual law<\/p>\n

\nWhich only now the scouts of vision glimpse<\/p>\n

\nWho pressing through the forest of their thoughts<\/p>\n

\nHave found the narrow bridges of the gods.<\/p>\n

\nWait patient of the brittle bars of form<\/p>\n

\nMaking division your delightful means<\/p>\n

\nOf happy oneness rapturously enhanced<\/p>\n

\nBy attraction in the throbbing air between.<\/p>\n

\nYet if thou wouldst abandon the vexed world<\/p>\n

\nCareless of the dark moan of things below,<\/p>\n

\nTread down the isthmus, overleap the flood,<\/p>\n

\nCancel thy contract with the labouring Force,<\/p>\n

\nRenounce the tie that joins thee to earth-kind,<\/p>\n

\nCast off thy sympathy with mortal hearts.<\/p>\n

\nArise, vindicate thy spirit’s conquered right: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nRelinquishing thy charge of
\ntransient breath, <\/font>
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\nUnder the cold gaze of the
\nindifferent stars<\/P><\/p>\n

\nLeaving thy borrowed body on the sod,<\/p>\n

\nAscend, 0 soul, into thy blissful home.<\/p>\n

\nHere in the playground of the eternal Child<\/p>\n

\nOr in domains the wise Immortals tread<\/p>\n

\nRoam with thy comrade splendour under skies<\/p>\n

\nSpiritual lit by an unsetting sun,<\/p>\n

\nAs godheads live who care not for the world<\/p>\n

\nAnd share not in the toil of Nature’s powers: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAbsorbed in their self-ecstasy they
\ndwell.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nCast off the ambiguous myth of earth’s desire,<\/p>\n

\n0 immortal to felicity arise." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\n     <\/b>
\nOn Savitri listening in her tranquil heart<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo the harmony of the ensnaring
\nvoice<\/p>\n

\nA joy exceeding earth’s and heaven’s poured down<\/p>\n

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\nThe bliss of an unknown eternity,<\/p>\n

\nA rapture from some waiting Infinite.<\/p>\n

\nA smile came rippling out in her wide eyes,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nIts confident felicity’s messenger<\/p>\n

\nAs if the first beam of the morning sun<\/p>\n

\nRippled along two wakened lotus-pools: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n"O besetter of man’s soul with life
\nand death <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the world’s pleasure and pain
\nand Day and Night, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTempting his heart with the far
\nlure of heaven, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTesting his strength with the close
\ntouch of hell, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI climb not to thy everlasting Day, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEven as I have shunned thy eternal
\nNight. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo me who turn not from thy
\nterrestrial Way, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGive back the other self my nature
\nasks, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy spaces need him not to help
\ntheir joy; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEarth needs his beautiful spirit
\nmade by thee<\/P><\/p>\n

\nTo fling delight down like a net of gold.<\/p>\n

\nEarth is the chosen place of mightiest souls; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nEarth is the heroic spirit’s
\nbattlefield, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe forge where the Arch-mason
\nshapes his works. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy servitudes on earth are
\ngreater, king, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThan all the glorious liberties of
\nheaven. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe heavens were once to me my
\nnatural home, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI too have wandered in star-jewelled
\ngroves, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nPaced sun-gold pastures and
\nmoon-silver swards<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd heard the harping laughter of their streams<\/p>\n

\nAnd lingered under branches dropping myrrh; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nI too have revelled in the fields
\nof light<\/P><\/p>\n

\nTouched by the ethereal raiment of the winds,<\/p>\n

\nThy wonder-rounds of music I have trod,<\/p>\n

\nLived in the rhyme of bright unlabouring thoughts,<\/p>\n

\nI have beat swift harmonies of rapture vast,<\/p>\n

\nDanced in spontaneous measures of the soul<\/p>\n

\n-The great and easy dances of the gods.<\/p>\n

\nOh, fragrant are the lanes thy children walk<\/p>\n

\nAnd lovely is the memory of their feet<\/p>\n

\nAmid the wonder-flowers of Paradise: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA heavier tread is mine, a mightier
\ntouch.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThere where the gods and demons battle in night<\/p>\n

\nOr wrestle on the borders of the Sun,<\/p>\n

\nTaught by the sweetness and the pain of life<\/p>\n

\nTo bear the uneven strenuous beat that throbs<\/p>\n

\nAgainst the edge of some divinest hope,<\/p>\n

\nTo dare the impossible with these pangs of search,<\/p>\n

\nIn me the spirit of immortal love<\/p>\n

\nStretches its arms out to embrace mankind.<\/p>\n

\nToo far thy heavens for me from suffering men.<\/p>\n

\nImperfect is the joy not shared by all.<\/p>\n

\nOh to spread forth, oh to encircle and seize<\/p>\n

\nMore hearts till love in us has filled thy world!<\/p>\n

\n0 life, the life beneath the wheeling stars<\/p>\n

\nFor victory in the tournament with death,<\/p>\n

\nFor bending of the fierce and difficult bow,<\/p>\n

\nFor flashing of the splendid sword of God!<\/p>\n

\n0 thou who soundest the trumpet in the lists,<\/p>\n

\nPart not the handle from the untried steel,<\/p>\n

\nTake not the warrior with his blow unstruck.<\/p>\n

\nAre there not still a million fights to wage?<\/p>\n

\n0 King-smith, clang on still thy toil begun,<\/p>\n

\nWeld us to one in thy strong smithy of life.<\/p>\n

\nThy fine-curved jewelled hilt call Savitri,<\/p>\n

\nThy blade’s exultant smile name Satyavan.<\/p>\n

\nFashion to beauty, point us through the world.<\/p>\n

\nBreak not the lyre before the song is found;\n<\/p>\n

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\nAre there not still unnumbered
\nchants to weave?<\/P><\/p>\n

\n0 subde-souled musician of the years,<\/p>\n

\nPlay out what thou’hast fluted on my stops; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nArise from the strain their first
\nwild plaint divined <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd that discover which is yet
\nunsung. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI know that I can lift man’s soul
\nto God, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI know that he can bring the
\nImmortal down. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOur will labours permitted by thy
\nwill <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd without thee an empty roar of
\nstorm, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA senseless whirlwind is the
\ntitan’s force <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd without thee a snare the
\nstrength of gods. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet not the inconscient gulf
\nswallow man’s race <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat through earth’s ignorance
\nstruggles towards the Light. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 thunderer with the lightnings of
\nthe soul, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nGive not to darkness and to death
\nthy sun, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAchieve thy wisdom’s hidden firm
\ndecree <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the mandate of thy secret
\nworld-wide love." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHer words failed lost in thought’s
\nimmensities <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhich seized them at the limits of
\ntheir cry <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd hid their meaning in the
\ndistances <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat stir to more than ever speech
\nhas won <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFrom the Unthinkable, end of all
\nour thought, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the Ineffable from whom all
\nwords come. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\n     Then with
\na smile august as noonday heavens<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe godhead of the vision wonderful: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n"How shall earth-nature and man’s
\nnature rise<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo the celestial levels, yet earth
\nabide?<\/p>\n

\nHeaven and earth towards each other gaze<\/p>\n

\nAcross a gulf that few can cross, none touch,<\/p>\n

\nArriving through a vague ethereal mist<\/p>\n

\nOut of which all things form that move in space,<\/p>\n

\nThe shore that all can see but never reach.<\/p>\n

\nHeaven’s light visits sometimes the mind of earth; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIts thoughts bum in her sky like
\nlonely stars, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn her heart there move celestial
\nseekings soft <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd beautiful like fluttering wings
\nof birds, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nVisions of joy that she can never
\nwin <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTraverse the fading mirror other
\ndreams. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFaint seeds of light and bliss bear
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\nFaint harmonies caught from a
\nhalf-heard song <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFall swooning mid the wandering
\nvoices’ jar, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFoam from the tossing luminous seas
\nwhere dwells <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe beautiful and far delight of
\ngods, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRaptures unknown, a miracled
\nhappiness <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThrill her and pass half-shaped to
\nmind and sense. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAbove her little finite steps she
\nfeels <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCareless of knot or pause, worlds
\nwhich weave out <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA strange perfection beyond law and
\nrule, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA universe of self-found felicity, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn inexpressible rhythm of timeless
\nbeats, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe many-movemented heart-beats of
\nthe One, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMagic of the boundless harmonies of
\nself, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOrder of the freedom of the
\ninfinite, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe wonder-plastics of the
\nAbsolute. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere is the All-Truth and there
\nthe timeless bliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut hers are fragments of a
\nstar-lost gleam, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHers are but careless visits of the
\ngods. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey are a Light that fails, a Word
\nsoon hushed <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd nothing they mean can stay for
\nlong on earth. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere are high glimpses, not the
\nlasting sight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA few can climb to an unperishing
\nsun, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOr live on the edges of the mystic
\nmoon <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd channel to earth-mind the
\nwizard ray. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe heroes and the demi-gods are
\nfew <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo whom the close immortal voices
\nspeak <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd to their acts the heavenly clan
\nare near. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFew are the silences in which Truth
\nis heard, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nUnveiling the timeless utterance in
\nher deeps; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFew are the splendid moments of the
\nseers.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHeaven’s call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe doors of light are sealed to
\ncommon mind,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd earth’s needs nail to earth the human mass,<\/p>\n

\nOnly in an uplifting hour of stress<\/p>\n

\nMen answer to the touch of greater things: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nOr,<\/b> raised by some strong
\nhand to breathe heaven-air,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThey slide back to the mud from which they climbed; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIn the mud of which they are made,
\nwhose law they know <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey joy in safe return to a
\nfriendly base, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd, though something in them weeps
\nfor the glory lost <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd greatness murdered, they accept
\ntheir fall.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nTo be the common man they think the best,<\/p>\n

\nTo live as others live is their delight.<\/p>\n

\nFor most are built on Nature’s earthly plan<\/p>\n

\nAnd owe small debt to a superior plane; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe human average is their level
\npitch,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA thinking animal’s material range.<\/p>\n

\nIn the long ever-mounting hierarchy,<\/p>\n

\nIn the stark economy of cosmic life<\/p>\n

\nEach creature to its appointed task and place<\/p>\n

\nIs bound by his nature’s form, his spirit’s force.<\/p>\n

\nIf this were easily disturbed, it would break<\/p>\n

\nThe settled balance of created things; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe perpetual order of the universe<\/P><\/p>\n

\nWould tremble, and a gap yawn in woven Fate.<\/p>\n

\nIf men were not and all were brilliant gods,<\/p>\n

\nThe mediating stair would then be lost<\/p>\n

\nBy which the spirit awake in Matter winds<\/p>\n

\nAccepting the circuits of the Middle Way,<\/p>\n

\nBy heavy toil and slow aeonic steps<\/p>\n

\nReaching the bright miraculous fringe of God,<\/p>\n

\nInto the glory of the Oversold.<\/p>\n

\nMy will, my call is there in men and things; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nBut the Inconscient lies at the
\nworld’s grey back <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd draws to its breast of Night
\nand Death and Sleep. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nImprisoned in its dark and dumb
\nabyss <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA little consciousness it lets
\nescape <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut jealous of the growing light
\nholds back <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nClose to the obscure edges of its
\ncave <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAs if a fond ignorant mother kept
\nher child <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTied to her apron strings of
\nNescience. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Inconscient could not read
\nwithout man’s mind <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe mystery of the world its sleep
\nhas made: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMan is its key to unlock a
\nconscious door.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nBut still it holds him dangled in its grasp: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nIt draws its giant circle round its
\nthoughts,<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nIt shuts its heart to the supernal
\nLight,<\/p>\n

\nA high and dazzling limit shines above,<\/p>\n

\nA black and blinding border rules below: <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nHis mind is closed between two
\nfirmaments. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nHe seeks through words and images
\nthe Truth,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd, poring on surfaces and brute outsides<\/p>\n

\nOr dipping cautious feet in shallow seas,<\/p>\n

\nEven his Knowledge is an Ignorance.<\/p>\n

\nHe is barred out from his own inner depths; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nHe cannot look on the face of the
\nUnknown.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHow shall he see with the Omniscient’s eyes,<\/p>\n

\nHow shall he will with the Omnipotent’s force?<\/p>\n

\n0 too compassionate and eager Dawn,<\/p>\n

\nLeave to the circling aeons’ tardy pace<\/p>\n

\nAnd to the working of the inconscient Will,<\/p>\n

\nLeave to its imperfect light the earthly race: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll shall be done by the long act
\nof Time.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAlthough the race is bound by its own kind,<\/p>\n

\nThe soul in man is greater than his fate: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAbove the wash and surge of Time
\nand Space, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDisengaging from the cosmic
\ncommonalty <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBy which all life is kin in grief
\nand joy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDelivered from the universal Law <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe sun-like single and
\ntranscendent spirit <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCan blaze its way through the
\nmind’s barrier wall <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd bum alone in the eternal sky, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInhabitant of a wide and endless
\ncalm. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 Flame, withdraw into thy luminous
\nself <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOr else return to thy original
\nmight <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOn a<\/b> seer-summit above
\nthought and world; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPartner of my unhoured eternity,<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nBe one with the infinity of my power: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nFor thou art the World Mother and
\nthe Bride. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOut of the fruitless yearning of
\nearth’s life, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOut of her feeble unconvincing
\ndream, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRecovering wings that cross
\ninfinity <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPass back into the Power from which
\nthou cam’st. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo that thou canst uplift thy
\nformless flight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy heart can rise from its
\nunsatisfied beats <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd feel the immortal and spiritual
\njoy <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf a soul that never lost felicity. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLift up the fallen heart of love
\nwhich flutters, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCast down desire’s abyss into the
\ngulfs. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor ever rescued out of Nature’s
\nshapes <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nDiscover what the aimless cycles
\nwant,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThere intertwined with all thy life has meant,<\/p>\n

\nHere vainly sought in a terrestrial form.<\/p>\n

\nBreak into eternity thy mortal mould; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nMelt, Lightning, into thy invisible
\nflame.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nClasp, Ocean, deep into thyself thy wave,<\/p>\n

\nHappy for ever in the embosoming surge.<\/p>\n

\nGrow one with the still passion of the depths,<\/p>\n

\nThen shalt thou know the Lover and the Loved,<\/p>\n

\nLeaving the limits dividing him and thee.<\/p>\n

\nReceive him into boundless Savitri,<\/p>\n

\nLose thyself into infinite Satyavan,<\/p>\n

\n0 miracle where thou beganst there cease!"
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\n     But
\nSavitri answered to the radiant God: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"In vain thou temptst with solitary
\nbliss<\/P><\/p>\n

\nTwo spirits saved out of a suffering world; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nMy soul and his indissolubly linked<\/P><\/p>\n

\nIn the one task for which our lives were born<\/p>\n

\nTo raise the world to God in deathless Light,<\/p>\n

\nTo bring God down to the world on earth we came,<\/p>\n

\nTo change the earthly life to life divine.<\/p>\n

\nI keep my will to save the world and man; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nEven the charm of thy alluring
\nvoice,<\/P><\/p>\n

\n0 blissful godhead, cannot seize and snare.<\/p>\n

\nI sacrifice not earth to happier worlds.<\/p>\n

\nBecause there dwelt the Eternal’s vast Idea<\/p>\n

\nAnd his dynamic will in men and things,<\/p>\n

\nSo only could the enormous scene begin.<\/p>\n

\nWhence came this profitless wilderness of stars,<\/p>\n

\nThis mighty barren wheeling of the suns?<\/p>\n

\nWho made the soul of futile life in Time,<\/p>\n

\nPlanted a purpose and a hope in the heart,<\/p>\n

\nSet Nature to a huge and meaningless task<\/p>\n

\nOr planned her million-aeoned effort’s waste?<\/p>\n

\nWhat force condemned to birth and death and tears<\/p>\n

\nThese conscious creatures crawling on the globe?<\/p>\n

\nIf earth can look up to the light of heaven<\/p>\n

\nAnd hear an answer to her lonely cry,<\/p>\n

\nNot vain their meeting, nor heaven’s touch a snare. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nIf thou and I are true, the world
\nis true, <\/P><\/p>\n

\nAlthough thou hide thyself behind thy works,<\/p>\n

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\nTo be is not a senseless paradox; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nSince God has made earth, earth
\nmust make in her God, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat hides within her breast she
\nmust reveal. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI claim thee for the world that
\nthou hast made. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf man lives bound by his humanity, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIf he is tied for ever to his pain, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLet a greater being then arise from
\nman, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe superhuman with the Eternal
\nmate <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the Immortal shine through
\nearthly forms. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nElse were creation vain and this
\ngreat world <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA nothing that in Time’s moments
\nseems to be. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut I have seen through the
\ninsentient mask; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI have felt a secret spirit stir in
\nthings<\/P><\/p>\n

\nCarrying the body of the growing God; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nIt looks through veiling forms at
\nveilless truth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt pushes back the curtain of the
\ngods, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIt climbs towards its own
\neternity." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut the god answered to the woman’s
\nheart: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"0 living power of the incarnate
\nWord, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll that the Spirit has dreamed
\nthou canst create; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou art the force by which I made
\nthe worlds, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou art my vision and my will and
\nvoice. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut knowledge too is thine, the
\nworld-plan thou knowest <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the tardy process of the pace
\nof Time. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the impetuous drive of thy heart
\nof flame, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn thy passion to deliver man and
\nearth, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIndignant at the impediments of
\nTime <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the slow evolution’s sluggard
\nsteps, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLead not the spirit in an ignorant
\nworld <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo dare too soon the adventure of
\nthe Light, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPushing the bound and slumbering
\ngod in man <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAwakened mid the ineffable silences <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInto endless vistas of the unknown
\nand unseen, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAcross the last confines of the
\nlimiting Mind <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the Superconscient’s perilous
\nborder line <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInto the danger of the Infinite. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut if thou wilt not wait for Time
\nand God, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDo then thy work and force thy will
\non Fate. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAs I have taken from thee my load
\nof night<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd taken from thee my twilight’s doubts and dreams,<\/p>\n

\nSo now I take my light of utter Day.<\/p>\n

\nThese are my symbol kingdoms but not here<\/p>\n

\nCan the great choice be made that fixes fate<\/p>\n

\nOr uttered the sanction of the Voice supreme.<\/p>\n

\nArise upon a ladder of greater worlds<\/p>\n

\nTo the infinity where no world can be.<\/p>\n

\nBut not in the wide air where a greater Life<\/p>\n

\nUplifts its mystery and its miracle,<\/p>\n

\nAnd not on the luminous peaks of summit Mind,<\/p>\n

\nOr in the hold where subtle Matter’s spirit<\/p>\n

\nHides in its light of shimmering secrecies,<\/p>\n

\nCan there be heard the Eternal’s firm command<\/p>\n

\nThat joins the head of destiny to its base.<\/p>\n

\nThese only are the mediating links,<\/p>\n

\nNot theirs is the originating sight<\/p>\n

\nNor the fulfilling act or last support<\/p>\n

\nThat bears perpetually the cosmic pile.<\/p>\n

\nTwo are the Powers that hold the ends of Time; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nSpirit foresees. Matter unfolds its
\nthought,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe dumb executor of God’s decrees,<\/p>\n

\nOmitting no iota and no dot,<\/p>\n

\nAgent unquestioning, inconscient, stark,<\/p>\n

\nEvolving inevitably a charged content,<\/p>\n

\nIntention of his force in time and space,<\/p>\n

\nIn animate beings and inanimate things<\/p>\n

\nImmutably it fulfils its ordered task.<\/p>\n

\nIt cancels not a tittle of things done; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nUnswerving from the oracular
\ncommand<\/P><\/p>\n

\nIt alters not the steps of the Unseen.<\/p>\n

\nIf thou must indeed deliver man and earth<\/p>\n

\nOn the spiritual heights, look down on life,<\/p>\n

\nDiscover the truth of God and man and world; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThen do thy task knowing and seeing
\nall.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAscend, 0 soul, into thy timeless self; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nChoose destiny’s curve and stamp
\nthy will on Time."<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHe ended and upon the falling sound<\/p>\n

\nA power went forth that shook the founded spheres<\/p>\n

\nAnd loosed the stakes that hold the tents of form.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAbsolved from vision’s grip and the
\nfolds of thought, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRapt from her sense like
\ndisappearing scenes <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the stupendous theatre of Space <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe heaven-worlds vanished in
\nspiritual light. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA movement was abroad, a cry, a
\nword, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBeginningless in its vast
\ndiscovery, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMomentless in its unthinkable
\nreturn: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nChoired in calm seas she heard the
\neternal Thought <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRhythming itself abroad unutterably <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn spaceless orbits and on timeless
\nroads. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn an ineffable world she lived
\nfulfilled. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn energy of the triune Infinite, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a measureless Reality she dwelt, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA rapture and a being and a force, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA linked and myriad-motioned
\nplenitude, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA virgin unity, a luminous spouse, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHousing a multitudinous embrace <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo marry all in God’s immense
\ndelight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBearing the eternity of every
\nspirit, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBearing the burden of universal
\nlove, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA wonderful mother of unnumbered
\nsouls. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll things she knew, all things
\nimagined or willed, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHer ear was opened to ideal sound, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShape the convention bound no more
\nher sight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA thousand doors of oneness was her
\nheart, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA crypt and sanctuary of brooding
\nlight <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAppeared, the last recess of things
\nbeyond. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThen in its round the enormous fiat
\npaused, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSilence gave back to the Unknowable <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll it had given. Still was her
\nlistening thought. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe form of things had ceased
\nwithin her soul. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInvisible that perfect godhead now. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAround her some tremendous spirit
\nlived, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMysterious flame around a melting
\npearl, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd in the phantom of abolished
\nSpace <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThere was a voice unheard by ears
\nthat cried: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice
\nnot given again; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor now from my highest being looks
\nat thee<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe nameless formless peace where all things rest.<\/p>\n

\nIn a happy vast sublime cessation know,<\/p>\n

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\nAn immense extinction in eternity, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA point that disappears in the
\ninfinite,<\/font><\/p>\n

\nFelicity of the extinguished flame, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLast sinking of a wave in a
\nboundless sea, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEnd of the trouble of thy wandering
\nthoughts, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nClose of the journeying of thy
\npligrim soul. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAccept, 0 music, weariness of thy
\nnotes, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 stream, wide breaking of thy.
\nchannel banks." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe moments fell into eternity. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut someone yearned within a bosom
\nunknown. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd silently the woman’s heart
\nreplied: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"Thy peace, 0 Lord, a boon within
\nto keep <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAmid the roar and ruin of wild Time <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor the magnificent soul of man on
\nearth. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy calm, 0 Lord, that bears thy
\nhands of joy." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLimitless like ocean round a lonely
\nisle <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA second time the eternal cry
\narose: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"Wide open are the ineffable gates
\nin front.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nMy spirit leans down to break the knot of earth,<\/p>\n

\nAmorous of oneness without thought or sign<\/p>\n

\nTo cast down wall and fence, to strip heaven bare,<\/p>\n

\nSee with the large eye of infinity,<\/p>\n

\nUnweave the stars and into silence pass."<\/p>\n

\nIn an immense and world-destroying pause<\/p>\n

\nShe heard a million creatures cry to her.<\/p>\n

\nThrough the tremendous stillness of her thoughts<\/p>\n

\nImmeasurably the woman’s nature spoke: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n"Thy oneness. Lord, in many
\napproaching hearts,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nMy sweet infinity of thy numberless souls."<\/p>\n

\nMightily retreating like a sea in ebb<\/p>\n

\nA third time swelled the great admonishing call: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n"I spread abroad the refuge of my
\nwings. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOut of its incommunicable deeps <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy power looks forth of mightiest
\nsplendour, stilled <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInto its majesty of sleep,
\nwithdrawn <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAbove the dreadful whirlings of the
\nworld." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA sob of things was answer to the
\nvoice, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd passionately the woman’s heart
\nreplied: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"Thy energy. Lord, to seize on
\nwoman and man,<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nTo take all things and creatures in
\ntheir grief – <\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd gather them into a mother’s
\narms." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSolemn and distant like a seraph’s
\nlyre <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA last great time the warning sound
\nwas heard: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"I open the wide eye of solitude <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo uncover the voiceless rapture of
\nmy bliss, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWhere in a pure and exquisite hush
\nit lies <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMotionless in its slumber of
\necstasy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nResting from the sweet madness of
\nthe dance <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOut of whose beat the throb of
\nhearts was borne." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBreaking the silence with appeal
\nand cry <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA hymn of adoration tireless
\nclimbed, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA music beat of winged uniting
\nsouls, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThen all the woman yearningly
\nreplied: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n"Thy embrace which rends the living
\nknot of pain, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy joy, 0 Lord, in which all
\ncreatures breathe, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy magic flowing waters of deep
\nlove, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy sweetness give to me for earth
\nand men." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\n     Then after
\nsilence a still blissful cry<\/P><\/p>\n

\nBegan, such as arose from the Infinite<\/p>\n

\nWhen the first whisperings of a strange delight<\/p>\n

\nImagined in its deep the joy to seek,<\/p>\n

\nThe passion to discover and to touch,<\/p>\n

\nThe enamoured laugh which rhymed the chanting worlds: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n"0 beautiful body of the incarnate
\nWord, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy thoughts are mine, I have
\nspoken with thy voice. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy will is thine, what thou hast
\nchosen I choose. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll thou hast asked I give to earth
\nand men. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll shall be written out in
\ndestiny’s book <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBy my trustee of thought and plan
\nand act, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe executor of my will, eternal
\nTime. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut since thou hast refused my
\nmaimless Calm <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd turned from my termless peace
\nin which is expunged <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe visage of Space, and the shape
\nof Time is lost, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd from happy extinction of thy
\nseparate self <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn my uncompanioned lone eternity,<\/font><\/p>\n

\nFor not for thee the nameless
\nworldless Nought, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnnihilation of thy living soul <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the end of thought and hope and
\nlife and love <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the blank measureless Unknowable
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\nBecause thou hast obeyed my
\ntimeless will <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI lay my hands upon thy soul of
\nflame, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI lay my hands upon thy heart of
\nlove, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI yoke thee to my power of work in
\nTime. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBecause thou hast obeyed my
\ntimeless will, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBecause thou hast chosen to share
\nearth’s struggle and fate <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd leaned in pity over earth-bound
\nmen <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd turned aside to help and
\nyearned to save, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI bind by thy heart’s passion thy
\nheart to mine <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd lay my splendid yoke upon thy
\nsoul. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNow will I do in thee my marvellous
\nworks. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will fasten thy nature with my
\ncords of strength, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSubdue to my delight thy spirit’s
\nlimbs <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd make thee a vivid knot of all
\nmy bliss, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd build in thee my proud and
\ncrystal home. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy days shall be my shafts of
\npower and light, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy nights my starry mysteries of
\njoy <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd all my clouds lie tangled in
\nthy hair
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd all my springtides marry in thy
\nmouth. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the
\nearth-soul to Light <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd bring down God into the lives
\nof men; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEarth shall be my work-chamber and
\nmy house,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nMy garden of life to plant a seed divine.<\/p>\n

\nWhen all thy work in human time is done,<\/p>\n

\nThe mind of earth shall be a home of light,<\/p>\n

\nThe life of earth a tree growing towards heaven,<\/p>\n

\nThe body of earth a tabernacle of God.<\/p>\n

\nAwakened from the mortal’s ignorance<\/p>\n

\nMen shall be lit with the Etemal’s ray<\/p>\n

\nAnd the glory of my sun-lift m their thoughts<\/p>\n

\nAnd feel in their hearts the sweetness of my love<\/p>\n

\nAnd in their acts my Power’s miraculous drive.<\/p>\n

\nMy will shall be the meaning of their days; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nLiving for me, by me, in me they
\nshall live.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nIn the heart of my creation’s mystery<\/p>\n

\nI will enact the drama of thy soul,<\/p>\n

\nInscribe the long romance of Thee and Me,<\/p>\n

\nI will pursue thee across the century; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThou shalt be hunted through the
\nworld by love,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nNaked of ignorance’ protecting veil <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd without covert from my radiant
\ngods <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNo shape shall screen thee from my
\ndivine desire. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNowhere shalt thou escape my living
\neyes. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the nudity of thy discovered
\nself <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn a<\/b> bare identity with all
\nthat is, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDisrobed of thy covering of
\nhumanity, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDivested of the dense veil of human
\nthought, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMade one with every mind and body
\nand heart, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMade one with all nature and with
\nself and God, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nSumming in thy single soul my
\nmystic world <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will possess in thee my universe, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe universe find all I am in thee. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt bear all things that all
\nthings may change, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt fill all with my
\nsplendour and my bliss, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt meet all with my
\ntransmuting soul. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAssailed by my infinitudes above, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd quivering in immensities below, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nPursued by me through my mind’s
\nwall-less vast, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOceanic with the surges of my life, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA swimmer lost between two leaping
\nseas <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBy my outer pains and inner
\nsweetnesses <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFinding my joy in my
\nopposite mysteries <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt respond to me from every
\nnerve. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA vision shall compel thy coursing
\nbreath, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy heart shall drive thee on the
\nwheel of works, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThy mind shall urge thee through
\nthe flames of thought, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo meet me in the abyss and on the
\nheights, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTo feel me in the tempest and the
\ncalm <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd love me in the noble and the
\nvile, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn beautiful things and terrible
\ndesire. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe pains of hell shall be to thee
\nmy kiss, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe flowers of heaven persuade thee
\nwith my touch. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy fiercest masks shall my
\nattractions bring. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMusic shall find thee in the voice
\nof swords, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBeauty pursue thee through the core
\nof flame. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt know me in the rolling
\nof the spheres <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd cross me in the atoms of the
\nwhirl. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe wheeling forces of my universe <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nShall cry to thee the summons of my
\nname. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDelight shall drop down from my
\nnectarous moon, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nMy fragrance seize thee in the
\njasmine’s snare,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nMy eye shall look upon thee from the sun.<\/p>\n

\nMirror of Nature’s secret spirit made,<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt reflect my hidden heart of joy,<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed<\/p>\n

\nIn my pure lotus-cup of starry brim.<\/p>\n

\nMy dreadful hands laid on thy bosom shall force<\/p>\n

\nThy being bathed in fiercest longings’ streams.<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt discover the one and quivering note<\/p>\n

\nAnd cry, the harp of all my melodies,<\/p>\n

\nAnd roll, my foaming wave in seas of love.<\/p>\n

\nEven my disasters’ clutch shall be to thee<\/p>\n

\nThe ordeal of my rapture’s contrary shape: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nIn pain’s self shall smile on thee
\nmy secret face: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shah bear my ruthless beauty
\nunabridged<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAmid the world’s intolerable wrongs,<\/p>\n

\nTrampled by the violent misdeeds of Time<\/p>\n

\nCry out to the ecstasy of my rapture’s touch.<\/p>\n

\nAll beings shall be to thy life my emissaries; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nDrawn to me on the bosom of thy
\nfriend, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCompelled to meet me in thy enemy’s
\neyes, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMy creatures shall demand me from
\nthy heart. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt not shrink from any
\nbrother soul. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou shalt be attracted helplessly
\nto all. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMen seeing thee shall feel my hands
\nof joy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn sorrow’s pangs feel steps of the
\nworld’s delight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nTheir life experience its
\ntumultuous shock <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the mutual craving of two
\nopposites. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHearts touched by thy love shall
\nanswer to my call, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nDiscover the ancient music of the
\nspheres <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the revealing accents of thy
\nvoice, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd nearer draw to me because thou
\nart: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEnamoured of thy spirit’s
\nloveliness <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThey shall embrace my body in thy
\nsoul, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHear in thy life the beauty of my
\nlaugh, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nKnow the thrilled bliss with which
\nI made the worlds. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll that thou hast, shall be for
\nother’s bliss, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll that thou art, shall to my
\nhands belong. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will pour delight from thee as
\nfrom a jar, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nI will whirl thee as my chariot
\nthrough the ways, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nI will use thee as my sword and as
\nmy lyre,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nI will play on thee my minstrelsies of thought.<\/p>\n

\nAnd when thou art vibrant with all ecstasy,<\/p>\n

\nAnd when thou livst one spirit with all things,<\/p>\n

\nThen will I spare thee not my living fires,<\/p>\n

\nBut make thee a channel for my timeless force.<\/p>\n

\nMy hidden presence led thee unknowing on<\/p>\n

\nFrom thy beginning in earth’s voiceless bosom<\/p>\n

\nThrough life and pain and time and will and death,<\/p>\n

\n: Through outer shocks and inner silences<\/p>\n

\nAlong the mystic roads of Space and Time<\/p>\n

\nTo the experience which all Nature hides.<\/p>\n

\nWho hunts and seizes me, my captive grows: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThis shalt thou henceforth learn
\nfrom thy heart-beats, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor ever love, 0 beautiful slave of
\nGod! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 lasso of my rapture’s widening
\nnoose, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBecome my cord of universal love. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe spirit ensnared by thee force
\nto delight <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOf creation’s oneness sweet and
\nfathomless, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nCompelled to embrace my myriad
\nunities <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd all my endless forms and divine
\nsouls. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 Mind, grow full of the eternal
\npeace; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n0 Word, cry out the immortal
\nlitany: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBuilt is the golden tower, the
\nflame-child born. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\n     "Descend
\nto life with him thy heart desires.<\/P><\/p>\n

\n0 Satyavan, 0 luminous Savitri,<\/p>\n

\nI sent you forth of old beneath the stars,<\/p>\n

\nA dual power of God in an ignorant world,<\/p>\n

\nIn a hedged creation shut from limitless self,<\/p>\n

\nBringing down God to the insentient glow,<\/p>\n

\nLifting earth-beings to immortality.<\/p>\n

\nIn the world of my knowledge and my ignorance<\/p>\n

\nWhere God is unseen and only is heard a Name<\/p>\n

\nAnd knowledge is trapped in the boundaries of mind<\/p>\n

\nAnd life is hauled in the drag-net of desire<\/p>\n

\nAnd Matter hides the soul from its own sight,<\/p>\n

\nYou are my Force at work to uplift earth’s fate,<\/p>\n

\nMy self that moves up the immense incline<\/p>\n

\nBetween the extremes of the spirit’s night and day. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nHe is my soul that climbs from
\nnescient Night<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThrough life and mind and supemature’s Vast<\/p>\n

\nTo the supernal light of Timelessness<\/p>\n

\nAnd my eternity hid in moving Time<\/p>\n

\nAnd my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space.<\/p>\n

\nIt climbs to the greatness it has left behind<\/p>\n

\nAnd to the beauty and joy from which it fell,<\/p>\n

\nTo the closeness and sweetness of all things divine,<\/p>\n

\nTo light without bounds and life illimitable,<\/p>\n

\nTaste of the depths of the Ineffable’s bliss,<\/p>\n

\nTouch of the immortal and the infinite.<\/p>\n

\nHe is my soul that gropes out of the beast<\/p>\n

\nTo reach humanity’s heights of lucent thought,<\/p>\n

\nAnd the vicinity of Truth’s sublime.<\/p>\n

\nHe is the godhead growing in human lives<\/p>\n

\nAnd in the body of earth-being’s forms,<\/p>\n

\nHe is the soul of man climbing to God<\/p>\n

\nIn Nature’s surge out of earth’s ignorance.<\/p>\n

\n0 Savitri, thou art my spirit’s Power,<\/p>\n

\nThe revealing voice of my immortal Word,<\/p>\n

\nThe face of Truth upon the roads of Time<\/p>\n

\nPointing to the souls of men the routes to God.<\/p>\n

\nWhile the dim light from the veiled Spirit’s peak<\/p>\n

\nFalls upon Matter’s stark inconscient sleep<\/p>\n

\nAs if a pale moonbeam on a dense glade,<\/p>\n

\nAnd Mind in a half-light moves amid half-truths<\/p>\n

\nAnd the human heart knows only human love<\/p>\n

\nAnd life is a stumbling and imperfect force<\/p>\n

\nAnd the body counts out its precarious days,<\/p>\n

\nYou shall be born into man’s dubious hours<\/p>\n

\nIn forms that hide the soul’s divinity<\/p>\n

\nAnd show through veils of the earth’s doubting air<\/p>\n

\nMy glory breaking as through clouds a sun,<\/p>\n

\nOr burning like a rare and inward fire,<\/p>\n

\nAnd with my nameless influence fill men’s lives.<\/p>\n

\nYet shall they look up as to peaks of God<\/p>\n

\nAnd feel God like a circumambient air<\/p>\n

\nAnd rest on God as on a motionless base.<\/p>\n

\nYet shall there glow on mind like a homed moon<\/p>\n

\nThe spirit’s crescent splendour in pale skies <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd light man’s life upon his
\nGodward road.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nBut more there is concealed in God’s Beyond<\/p>\n

\nThat shall one day reveal its hidden face.<\/p>\n

\nNow mind is all and its uncertain ray,<\/p>\n

\nMind is the leader of the body and life,<\/p>\n

\nMind the thought-driven chariot of the soul<\/p>\n

\nCarrying the luminous wanderer in the night<\/p>\n

\nTo vistas of a far uncertain dawn,.<\/p>\n

\nTo the end of the Spirit’s fathomless desire,<\/p>\n

\nTo its dream of absolute truth and utter bliss.<\/p>\n

\nThere are greater destinies mind cannot surmise<\/p>\n

\nFixed on the summit of the evolving Path<\/p>\n

\nThe Traveller now treads in the Ignorance,<\/p>\n

\nUnaware of his next step, not knowing his goal.<\/p>\n

\nMind is not all his tireless climb can reach,<\/p>\n

\nThere is a fire on the apex of the worlds,<\/p>\n

\nThere is a house of the Etemal’s Light.<\/p>\n

\nThere is an infinite truth, an absolute power.<\/p>\n

\nThe spirit’s mightiness shall cast off its mask,<\/p>\n

\nIts greatness shall be felt shaping the world’s course.<\/p>\n

\nIt shall be seen in its own veilless beams,<\/p>\n

\nA star rising from the Inconscient’s night,<\/p>\n

\nA sun climbing to Supernature’s peak.<\/p>\n

\nAbandoning the dubious Middle Way<\/p>\n

\nA few shall glimpse the miraculous Origin<\/p>\n

\nAnd some shall feel in you the secret Force<\/p>\n

\nAnd they shall turn to meet a nameless tread,<\/p>\n

\nAdventurers into a mightier Day.<\/p>\n

\nAscending out of the limiting breadths of mind,<\/p>\n

\nThey shall discover the world’s huge design<\/p>\n

\nAnd step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast.<\/p>\n

\nYou shall reveal to them the hidden eternities,<\/p>\n

\nThe breath of infinitudes not yet revealed,<\/p>\n

\nSome rapture of the bliss that made the world,<\/p>\n

\nSome rush of the force of God’s omnipotence,<\/p>\n

\nSome beam of the omniscient Mystery.<\/p>\n

\nBut when the hour of the Divine draws near,<\/p>\n

\nThe Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time<\/p>\n

\nAnd God be born into the human clay<\/p>\n

\nIn forms made ready by your human lives. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nThen shall the Truth supreme be
\ngiven to men. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n.There is a being beyond the being
\nof mind, .<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAn Immeasurable cast into many forms,<\/p>\n

\nA miracle of the multitudinous One.<\/p>\n

\nThere is a consciousness mind cannot touch,<\/p>\n

\nIts speech cannot utter nor its thought reveal<\/p>\n

\nIt has no home on earth, no centre in man,<\/p>\n

\nYet is the source of all things thought and done<\/p>\n

\nThe fount of the creation and its works. <\/p>\n

<\/P><\/p>\n

\nIt is the originer of all truth here,<\/p>\n

\nThe sun-orb of mind’s fragmentary rays,<\/p>\n

\nInfinity’s heaven that spills the rain of God,<\/p>\n

\nThe Immense that calls to man to expand the Spirit<\/p>\n

\nThe wide Aim that justifies his narrow attempts,<\/p>\n

\nA channel for the little he tastes of bliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nSome shall be made the glory’s
\nreceptacles<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd vehicles of the Etemal’s luminous power. <\/p>\n

\nThese are the high forerunners, the heads of Time,<\/p>\n

\nThe great deliverers of earth-bound mind,<\/p>\n

\nThe high transfigurers of human clay,<\/p>\n

\nThe first-born of a new supernal race."<\/p>\n

\nThe incarnate dual Power shall open God’s door,<\/p>\n

\nEternal supermind touch earthly Time. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThe superman shall wake in mortal
\nman<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd manifest the hidden demi-god<\/p>\n

\nOr grow into the God-Light and God-Force"<\/p>\n

\nRevealing the secret deity in the cave. <\/p>\n

\nThen shall the earth be touched by the Supreme,<\/p>\n

\nHis bright unveiled Transcendence shall illumine<\/p>\n

\nThe mind and heart, and force the life and act<\/p>\n

\nTo interpret his inexpressible mystery<\/p>\n

\nIn a heavenly alphabet of Divinity’s signs.<\/p>\n

\nHis living cosmic spirit shall enring,<\/p>\n

\nAnnulling the decree of death and pain,<\/p>\n

\nErasing the formulas of the Ignorance,<\/p>\n

\nWith the deep meaning of beauty and life’s hid sense,<\/p>\n

\nThe being ready for immortality,<\/p>\n

\nHis regard crossing infinity’s mystic waves<\/p>\n

\nBring back to Nature her early joy to live,<\/p>\n

\nThe metred heart-beats of a lost delight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe cry of a forgotten ecstasy, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe dance of the first
\nworld-creating Bliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Immanent shall be the witness
\nGod <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWatching on his many-petalled
\nlotus-throne, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHis actionless being and his silent
\nmight <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nRuling earth-nature by eternity’s
\nlaw, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA thinker waking the Inconscient’s
\nworld, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn immobile centre of many
\ninfinitudes <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIn his thousand-pillared temple by
\nTime’s sea. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThen shall the embodied being live
\nas one <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWho is a thought, a will of the
\nDivine, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA mask or robe of his divinity, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn instrument and partner of his
\nForce, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA point or line drawn in the
\ninfinite, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA manifest of the Imperishable. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe supermind shall be his nature’s
\nfount, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Etemal’s truth shall mould his
\nthoughts and acts, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Etemal’s truth shall be his
\nlight and guide. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll then shall change, a magic
\norder come <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOvertopping this mechanical
\nuniverse. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA mightier race shall inhabit the
\nmortal’s world. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOn Nature’s luminous tops, on the
\nSpirit’s ground, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe superman shall reign as king of
\nlife, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMake earth almost the mate and peer
\nof heaven <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd lead towards God and truth
\nman’s ignorant heart <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd lift towards godhead his
\nmortality. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA power released from
\ncircumscribing bounds, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIts height pushed up beyond death’s
\nhungry reach, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLife’s tops shall flame with the
\nImmortal’s thoughts, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLight shall invade the darkness of
\nits base. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThen in the process of evolving
\nTime <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll shall be drawn into a single
\nplan, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA divine harmony shall be earth’s
\nlaw, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBeauty and Joy remould her way to
\nlive: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEven the body shall remember God, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nNature shall draw back from
\nmortality <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd Spirit’s fires shall guide the
\nearth’s blind force; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nKnowledge shall bring into the
\naspirant Thought <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA high proximity to Truth and God. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe supermind shall claim the world
\nfor Light <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd thrill with love of God the
\nenamoured heart<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd place Light’s crown on Nature’s lifted head<\/p>\n

\nAnd found Light’s reign on her unshaking base.<\/p>\n

\nA greater truth than earth’s shall roof-in earth IP<\/p>\n

\nAnd shed its sunlight on the roads of mind; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA power infallible shall lead the
\nthought,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA seeing Puissance govern life and act,<\/p>\n

<\/P><\/font><\/p>\n

\nIn earthly hearts kindle the Immortal’s fire.<\/p>\n

\nA soul shall wake in the Inconscient’s house;,<\/p>\n

\nThe mind shall be God-vision’s tabernacle,<\/p>\n

\nThe body intuition’s instrument,<\/p>\n

\nAnd life a channel for God’s visible power.<\/p>\n

\nAll earth shall be the Spirit’s manifest home,<\/p>\n

\nHidden no more by the body and the life,<\/p>\n

\nHidden no more by the mind’s ignorance; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nAn unerring Hand shall shape event
\nand act.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit’s eyes shall look through Nature’s eyes,<\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit’s force shall occupy Nature’s force.<\/p>\n

\nThis world shall be God’s visible garden-house,<\/p>\n

\nThe earth shall be a field and camp of God,<\/p>\n

\nMan shall forget consent to mortality<\/p>\n

\nAnd his embodied frail impermanence.<\/p>\n

\nThis universe shall unseal its occult sense,<\/p>\n

\nCreation’s process change its antique front,<\/p>\n

\nAn ignorant evolution’s hierarchy<\/p>\n

\nRelease the Wisdom chained below its base".<\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit shall be the master of his world<\/p>\n

\nLurking no more in form’s obscurity<\/p>\n

\nAnd Nature shall reverse her action’s rule,<\/p>\n

\nThe outward world disclose the Truth it veils; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nAll things shall manifest the
\ncovert God,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAll shall reveal the Spirit’s light and might<\/p>\n

\nAnd move to its destiny of felicity. ; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nEven should a hostile force cling
\nto its reign <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd claim its right’s perpetual
\nsovereignty <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd man refuse his high spiritual
\nfate, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nYet shall the secret Truth in
\nthings prevail. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nFor in the march of all-fulfilling
\nTime <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe hour must come of the
\nTranscendent’s will: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAll turns and winds towards his
\npredestined ends <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nIn Nature’s fixed inevitable course<\/P><\/p>\n

\nDecreed since the beginning of the worlds<\/p>\n

\nIn the deep essence of created things: <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nEven there shall come as a high
\ncrown of all<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe end of Death, the death of Ignorance.<\/p>\n

\nBut first high Truth must set her feet on earth<\/p>\n

\nAnd man aspire to the Etemal’s light<\/p>\n

\nAnd all his members feel the Spirit’s touch<\/p>\n

\nAnd all his life obey an inner Force.<\/p>\n

\nThis too shall be; for a new life shall come,<\/p>\n

\nA body of the Superconscient’s truth,<\/p>\n

\nA native field of Supernature’s mights: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nIt shall make earth’s nescient
\nground Truth’s colony,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nMake even the Ignorance a transparent robe<\/p>\n

\nThrough which shall shine the brilliant limbs of Truth<\/p>\n

\nAnd Truth shall be a sun on Nature’s head<\/p>\n

\nAnd Truth shall be the guide of Nature’s steps<\/p>\n

\nAnd Truth shall gaze out of her nether deeps.<\/p>\n

\nWhen superman is born as Nature’s king<\/p>\n

\nHis presence shall transfigure Matter’s world; <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nHe shall light up Truth’s fire in
\nNature’s night,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHe shall lay upon the earth Truth’s greater law; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nMan too shall turn towards the
\nSpirit’s call. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAwake to his hidden possibility, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAwake to all that slept within his
\nheart <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd all that Nature meant when
\nearth was formed <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd the Spirit made this ignorant
\nworld his home, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHe shall aspire to Truth and God
\nand Bliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nInterpreter of a diviner law <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd instrument of a supreme design <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe higher kind shall lean to lift
\nup man. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMan shall desire to climb to his
\nown heights. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe truth above shall wake a nether
\ntruth; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nEven the dumb earth become a
\nsentient force.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit’s tops and Nature’s base shall draw<\/p>\n

\nNear to the secret of their separate truth<\/p>\n

\nAnd know each other as one deity.<\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit shall look out through Matter’s gaze<\/p>\n

\nAnd Matter shall reveal the Spirit’s face.<\/p>\n

\nThen man and superman shall be at one <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nAnd all the earth become a single
\nlife.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nEven the multitude shall hear the Voice<\/p>\n

\nAnd turn to commune with the Spirit within<\/p>\n

\nAnd strive to obey the high spiritual law: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nThis earth shall stir with impulses
\nsublime,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nHumanity awake to deepest self,<\/p>\n

\nNature the hidden godhead recognise.<\/p>\n

\nEven the many shall some answer make<\/p>\n

\nAnd bear the splendour of the Divine’s rush<\/p>\n

\nAnd his impetuous knock at unseen doors.<\/p>\n

\nA heavenlier passion shall upheave men’s lives,<\/p>\n

\nTheir mind shall share in the ineffable gleam,<\/p>\n

\nTheir heart shall feel the ecstasy and the fire,<\/p>\n

\nEarth’s bodies shall be conscious of a soul; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nMortality’s bond-slaves shall
\nunloose their bonds, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nMere men into spiritual beings grow <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAnd see awake the dumb divinity. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nIntuitive beams shall touch the
\nnature’s peaks, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA revelation stir the nature’s
\ndepths: <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Truth shall be the leader of
\ntheir lives,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nTruth shall dictate their thought and speech and act,<\/p>\n

\nThey shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky,<\/p>\n

\nAs if a little lower than the gods.<\/p>\n

\nFor knowledge shall pour down its radiant streams<\/p>\n

\nAnd even darkened mind quiver with new life<\/p>\n

\nAnd kindle and burn with the Ideal’s fire<\/p>\n

\nAnd turn to escape from mortal ignorance.<\/p>\n

\nThe frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,<\/p>\n

\nMore and more souls shall enter into light,<\/p>\n

\nMinds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear<\/p>\n

\nAnd lives blaze with a sudden inner flame<\/p>\n

\nAnd hearts grow enamoured of divine delight<\/p>\n

\nAnd human wills tune to the divine will,<\/p>\n

\nThese separate selves the Spirit’s oneness feel,<\/p>\n

\nThese senses of heavenly sense grow capable,<\/p>\n

\nThe flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy<\/p>\n

\nAnd mortal bodies of immortality.<\/p>\n

\nA divine force shall flow through tissue and cell<\/p>\n

\nAnd take the charge of breath and speech and act<\/p>\n

\nAnd all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

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\nAnd every feeling a celestial
\nthrill.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nOften a lustrous inner dawn shall come<\/p>\n

\nLighting the chambers of the slumbering mind; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA sudden bliss shall run through
\nevery limb<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAnd Nature with a mightier Presence fill.<\/p>\n

\nThus shall the earth open to divinity<\/p>\n

\nAnd common natures feel the wide uplift,<\/p>\n

\nIllumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray<\/p>\n

\nAnd meet the deity in common things.<\/p>\n

\nNature shall live to manifest secret God,<\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit shall take up the human play,<\/p>\n

\nThis earthly life become the life divine." <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

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\n <\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

\n     The
\nmeasure of that subtle music ceased.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nDown with a hurried swimming floating lapse<\/p>\n

\nThrough unseen worlds and bottomless spaces forced<\/p>\n

\nSank like a star the soul of Savitri.<\/p>\n

\nAmidst a laughter of unearthly lyres<\/p>\n

\nShe heard around her nameless voices cry<\/p>\n

\nTriumphing, an innumerable sound.<\/p>\n

\nA choir of laughing winds to meet her came.<\/p>\n

\nShe bore the burden of infinity<\/p>\n

\nAnd felt the stir of all ethereal space.<\/p>\n

\nPursuing her in her fall, implacably sweet,<\/p>\n

\nA face was over her which seemed a youth’s; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nSymbol of all the beauty eyes see
\nnot,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nCrowned as with peacock plumes of gorgeous hue <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nFraming a sapphire, whose
\nheart-disturbing smile<\/P><\/p>\n

\nInsatiably attracted to delight, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nVoluptuous to the embraces of her
\nsoul.<\/P><\/p>\n

\nChanged in its shape, yet rapturously the same,<\/p>\n

\nIt grew a woman’s dark and beautiful <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nLike a mooned night with drifting
\nstar-gemmed clouds,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA shadowy glory and a stormy depth,<\/p>\n

\nTurbulent in will and terrible in love.<\/p>\n

\nEyes in which Nature’s blind ecstatic life<\/p>\n

\nSprang from some spirit’s passionate content,<\/p>\n

\nMissioned her to the whirling dance of earth.<\/p>\n

\nAmidst the headlong rapture of her fall<\/p>\n

\nHeld like a bird in a child’s satisfied hands, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nIn an enamoured grasp her spirit
\nstrove<\/P><\/p>\n

\nAdmitting no release till Time should end,<\/p>\n

\nAnd, as the fruit of the mysterious joy,<\/p>\n

\nShe kept within her strong embosoming soul<\/p>\n

\nLike a flower hidden in the heart of spring<\/p>\n

\nThe soul of Satyavan drawn down by her<\/p>\n

\nInextricably in that mighty lapse.<\/p>\n

\nInvisible heavens in a thronging flight<\/p>\n

\nSoared past her as she fell. Then all the blind<\/p>\n

\nAnd near attraction of the earth compelled<\/p>\n

\nFearful rapidities of downward bliss.<\/p>\n

\nLost in the giddy proneness of that speed,<\/p>\n

\nWhirled, sinking, overcome she disappeared<\/p>\n

\nLike a leaf spinning from the tree of heaven,<\/p>\n

\nIn broad unconsciousness as in a pool; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA hospitable softness drew her in<\/P><\/p>\n

\nInto a wonder of miraculous depths,<\/p>\n

\nAbove her closed a darkness of great wings<\/p>\n

\nAnd she was buried in a mother’s breast. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n  
\nThen from a timeless plane that
\nwatches Time,<\/P><\/p>\n

\nA Spirit gazed out upon destiny,<\/p>\n

\nIn its endless moment saw the ages pass.<\/p>\n

\nAll still was in a silence of the gods.<\/p>\n

\nThe prophet moment covered limitless space<\/p>\n

\nAnd cast into the heart of hurrying Time<\/p>\n

\nA diamond light of the Etemal’s peace,<\/p>\n

\nA crimson seed of God’s felicity; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA glance from the gaze fell of
\nundying Love.<\/P> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nA wonderful face looked out with
\ndeathless eyes; <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nA hand was seen drawing the golden
\nbars <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThat guard the imperishable
\nsecrecies. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA key turned in a mystic lock of
\nTime. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nBut where the silence of the gods
\nhad passed, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA greater harmony from the
\nstillness born<\/font><\/p>\n

\nSurprised with joy and sweetness
\nyearning hearts, <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nAn ecstasy and a laughter and a
\ncry. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nA power leaned down, a happiness
\nfound its home. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nOver wide earth brooded the
\ninfinite bliss. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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