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\n\t\t\t\tCANTO THREE<\/FONT><\/B><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tTHE GLORY AND FALL
\n\t\t\t\tOF LIFE<\/FONT><\/B><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\t
\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t

 <\/P>
\n\t\t\t<\/TD>
\n\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAN uneven broad ascent now lured his feet.<\/P><\/p>\n

Answering a greater
\n\t\t\t\tNature’s troubled call<\/p>\n

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

He crossed the limits of embodied
\n\t\t\t\tMind<\/p>\n

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

And entered wide obscure disputed fields<\/p>\n

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

Where all was
\n\t\t\t\tdoubt and change and nothing sure,<\/p>\n

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

A world of search and toil
\n\t\t\t\twithout repose.<\/p>\n

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

As one who meets the face of the Unknown,<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tquestioner with none to give reply,<\/p>\n

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

Attracted to a problem
\n\t\t\t\tnever solved,<\/p>\n

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

Always uncertain of the ground he trod,<\/p>\n

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

Always
\n\t\t\t\tdrawn on to an inconstant goal<\/p>\n

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

He travelled through a land
\n\t\t\t\tpeopled by doubts<\/p>\n

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

In shifting confines on a quaking base.<\/p>\n

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

In
\n\t\t\t\tfront he saw a boundary ever unreached<\/p>\n

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

And thought himself at
\n\t\t\t\teach step nearer now,<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tfar retreating horizon of mirage.<\/p>\n

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

A vagrancy was there that
\n\t\t\t\tbrooked no home,<\/p>\n

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

A journey of countless paths without a
\n\t\t\t\tclose.<\/p>\n

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

Nothing he found to satisfy his heart;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\ttireless wandering sought and could not cease.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tlife is the manifest incalculable,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tmovement of unquiet seas, a long<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tventuresome leap of spirit into Space,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tvexed disturbance in the eternal Calm,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\timpulse and passion of the Infinite.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAssuming
\n\t\t\t\twhatever shape her fancy wills,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEscaped
\n\t\t\t\tfrom the restraint of settled forms<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\thas left the safety of the tried and known.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUnshepherded
\n\t\t\t\tby the fear that walks through Time,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUndaunted
\n\t\t\t\tby Fate that dogs and Chance that springs,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t106<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\taccepts disaster as a common risk;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCareless
\n\t\t\t\tof suffering, heedless of sin and fall,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\twrestles with danger and discovery<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tthe unexplored expanses of the Soul.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tbe seemed only a long experiment,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\thazard of a seeking ignorant Force<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\ttries all truths and, finding none supreme,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMoves
\n\t\t\t\ton unsatisfied, unsure of its end.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tsaw some inner mind, so life was shaped:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFrom
\n\t\t\t\tthought to thought she passed, from phase to phase,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTortured
\n\t\t\t\tby her own powers or proud and blest,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNow
\n\t\t\t\tmaster of herself, now toy and slave.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\thuge inconsequence was her action’s law,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAs
\n\t\t\t\tif all possibility must be drained<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tanguish and bliss were pastimes of the heart.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\ta gallop of thunder-hooved vicissitudes<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tswept through the race-fields of Circumstance,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr,
\n\t\t\t\tswaying, she tossed between her heights and deeps,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tUplifted
\n\t\t\t\tor broken on Time’s incessant wheel.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAmid
\n\t\t\t\ta tedious crawl of drab desires<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\twrithed, a worm mid worms in Nature’s mud,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThen,
\n\t\t\t\tTitan-statured, took all earth for food,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAmbitioned
\n\t\t\t\tthe seas for robe, for crown the stars<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tshouting strode from peak to giant peak,<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tClamouring
\n\t\t\t\tfor worlds to conquer and to rule.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThen
\n\t\t\t\twantonly enamoured of Sorrow’s face,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tplunged into the anguish of the depths<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd,
\n\t\t\t\twallowing, clung to her own misery.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tdolorous converse with her squandered self<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\twrote the account of all that she had lost,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tsat with grief as with an ancient friend.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tromp of violent raptures soon was spent,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tshe lingered tied to an inadequate joy<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMissing
\n\t\t\t\tthe turns of fate, missing life’s goal.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tscene was planned for all her numberless moods<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere
\n\t\t\t\teach could be the law and way of life,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBut
\n\t\t\t\tnone could offer a pure felicity;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOnly
\n\t\t\t\ta nickering zest they left behind<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOr
\n\t\t\t\tthe fierce lust that brings .a dead fatigue.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAmid
\n\t\t\t\ther swift untold variety<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 107<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSomething
\n\t\t\t\tremained dissatisfied ever the same<\/P><\/p>\n

And in the new saw only a
\n\t\t\t\tface of the old,<\/p>\n

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

For every hour repeated all the rest<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tevery change prolonged the same unease.<\/p>\n

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

A spirit of her self
\n\t\t\t\tand aim unsure,<\/p>\n

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

Tired soon of too much joy and happiness,<\/p>\n

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

She
\n\t\t\t\tneeds the spur of pleasure and of pain<\/p>\n

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

And the native taste of
\n\t\t\t\tsuffering and unrest:<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tstrains for an end that never can she win.<\/P><\/p>\n

A perverse savour
\n\t\t\t\thaunts her thirsting lips:<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tthe grief she weeps which came from her own choice,<\/P><\/p>\n

For the
\n\t\t\t\tpleasure yearns that racked with wounds her breast;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tAspiring to heaven she turns her steps towards hell.<\/P><\/p>\n

Chance she has
\n\t\t\t\tchosen and danger for playfellows;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFate’s
\n\t\t\t\tdreadful swing she has taken for cradle and seat.<\/P><\/p>\n

Yet pure and
\n\t\t\t\tbright from the Timeless was her birth,<\/p>\n

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

A lost world-rapture
\n\t\t\t\tlingers in her eyes,<\/p>\n

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

Her moods are faces of the Infinite:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBeauty
\n\t\t\t\tand happiness are her native right, <\/P><\/p>\n

And endless bliss is her
\n\t\t\t\teternal home.<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     This
\n\t\t\t\tnow revealed its antique face of joy,<\/P><\/p>\n

A sudden disclosure to
\n\t\t\t\tthe heart of grief<\/p>\n

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

Tempting it to endure and long and
\n\t\t\t\thope.<\/p>\n

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

Even in changing worlds bereft of peace,<\/p>\n

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

In an air
\n\t\t\t\tracked with sorrow and with fear<\/p>\n

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

And while his feet trod on a
\n\t\t\t\tsoil unsafe,<\/p>\n

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

He saw the image of a happier state.<\/p>\n

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

In an
\n\t\t\t\tarchitecture of hieratic Space<\/p>\n

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

Circling and mounting towards
\n\t\t\t\tcreation’s tops, <\/p>\n

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

At a blue height which never was too
\n\t\t\t\thigh<\/p>\n

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

For warm communion between body and soul,<\/p>\n

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

As far as
\n\t\t\t\theaven, as near as thought and hope,<\/p>\n

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

Glimmered the kingdom of
\n\t\t\t\ta griefless life.<\/p>\n

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

Above him in a new celestial vault<\/p>\n

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

Other
\n\t\t\t\tthan the heavens beheld by mortal eyes,<\/p>\n

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

As on a fretted
\n\t\t\t\tceiling of the gods,<\/p>\n

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

An archipelago of laughter and fire,<\/p>\n

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

Swam
\n\t\t\t\tstars apart in a rippled sea of sky.<\/p>\n

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

Towered spirals, magic
\n\t\t\t\trings of vivid hue<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 108<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tgleaming spheres of strange felicity<\/P><\/p>\n

Floated through distance
\n\t\t\t\tlike a symbol world.<\/p>\n

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

On the trouble and the toil they could
\n\t\t\t\tnot share,<\/p>\n

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

On the unhappiness they could not aid,<\/p>\n

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

Impervious
\n\t\t\t\tto life’s suffering, struggle, grief,<\/p>\n

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

Untarnished by its
\n\t\t\t\tanger, gloom and hate,<\/p>\n

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

Unmoved, untouched, looked down great
\n\t\t\t\tvisioned planes<\/p>\n

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

Blissful for ever in their timeless
\n\t\t\t\tright.<\/p>\n

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

Absorbed in their own beauty and content,<\/p>\n

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

Of their
\n\t\t\t\timmortal gladness they live sure.<\/p>\n

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

Apart in their self-glory
\n\t\t\t\tplunged, remote<\/p>\n

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

Burning they swam in a vague lucent haze,<\/p>\n

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

An
\n\t\t\t\teverlasting refuge of dream-light,<\/p>\n

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

A nebula of the splendours
\n\t\t\t\tof the gods<\/p>\n

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

Made from the musings of eternity.<\/p>\n

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

Almost
\n\t\t\t\tunbelievable by human faith,<\/p>\n

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

Hardly they seemed the stuff of
\n\t\t\t\tthings that are.<\/p>\n

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

As through a magic television’s
\n\t\t\t\tglass<\/p>\n

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

Outlined to some magnifying inner eye<\/p>\n

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

They shone like
\n\t\t\t\timages thrown from a far scene<\/p>\n

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

Too high and glad for mortal
\n\t\t\t\tlids to seize.<\/p>\n

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

But near and real to the longing heart<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tto the body’s passionate thought and sense<\/p>\n

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

Are the hidden
\n\t\t\t\tkingdoms of beatitude.<\/p>\n

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

In some close unattained realm which
\n\t\t\t\tyet we feel,<\/p>\n

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

Immune from the harsh clutch of Death and
\n\t\t\t\tTime,<\/p>\n

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

Escaping the search of sorrow and desire,<\/p>\n

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

In bright
\n\t\t\t\tenchanted safe peripheries<\/p>\n

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

For ever wallowing in bliss they
\n\t\t\t\tlie.<\/p>\n

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

In dream and trance and muse before our eyes,<\/p>\n

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

Across a
\n\t\t\t\tsubtle vision’s inner field,<\/p>\n

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

Wide rapturous landscapes
\n\t\t\t\tfleeting from the sight,<\/p>\n

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

The figures of the perfect kingdom
\n\t\t\t\tpass<\/p>\n

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

And behind them leave a shining memory’s trail.<\/p>\n

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

Imagined
\n\t\t\t\tscenes or great eternal worlds,<\/p>\n

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

Dream-caught or sensed, they
\n\t\t\t\ttouch our hearts with their depths,<\/p>\n

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

Unreal-seeming yet more
\n\t\t\t\treal than life,<\/p>\n

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

Happier than happiness, truer than things
\n\t\t\t\ttrue<\/p>\n

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

If dreams these were or captured images,<\/p>\n

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

Dream’s truth
\n\t\t\t\tmade false earth’s vain realities.<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 109<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\ta swift eternal moment fixed there live<\/P><\/p>\n

Or ever recalled come
\n\t\t\t\tback to longing eyes<\/p>\n

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

Calm heavens of imperishable
\n\t\t\t\tLight,<\/p>\n

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

Illumined continents of violet peace,<\/p>\n

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

Oceans and
\n\t\t\t\trivers of the mirth of God<\/p>\n

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

And griefless countries under
\n\t\t\t\tpurple suns.<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     This,
\n\t\t\t\tonce a star of bright remote idea<\/P><\/p>\n

Or imagination’s comet trail
\n\t\t\t\tof dream,<\/p>\n

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

Took now a close shape of reality.<\/p>\n

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

The gulf
\n\t\t\t\tbetween dream-truth, earth-fact was crossed,<\/p>\n

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

The wonder-worlds
\n\t\t\t\tof life were dreams no more;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tvision made all they unveiled its own:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTheir
\n\t\t\t\tscenes, their happenings met his eyes and heart<\/P><\/p>\n

And smote them
\n\t\t\t\twith pure loveliness and bliss.<\/p>\n

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

A breathless summit region
\n\t\t\t\tdrew his gaze<\/p>\n

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

Whose boundaries jutted into a sky of Self<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tdipped towards a strange ethereal base.<\/p>\n

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

The quintessence
\n\t\t\t\tglowed of Life’s supreme delight. <\/p>\n

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

On a spiritual and
\n\t\t\t\tmysterious peak<\/p>\n

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

Only a miracle’s high transfiguring
\n\t\t\t\tline<\/p>\n

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

Divided life from the formless Infinite<\/p>\n

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

And sheltered
\n\t\t\t\tTime against eternity.<\/p>\n

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

Out of that formless stuff Time mints
\n\t\t\t\this shapes,<\/p>\n

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

The Eternal’s quiet holds the cosmic act:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t‘The
\n\t\t\t\tprotean images of the World-Force<\/P><\/p>\n

Have drawn the strength to
\n\t\t\t\tbe, the will to last<\/p>\n

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

From a deep ocean of dynamic
\n\t\t\t\tpeace.<\/p>\n

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

Inverting the Spirit’s apex towards life<\/p>\n

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

She spends
\n\t\t\t\tthe plastic liberties of the One<\/p>\n

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

To cast in acts the dreams of
\n\t\t\t\ther caprice,<\/p>\n

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

His wisdom’s call steadies her careless feet,<\/p>\n

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

He
\n\t\t\t\tprops her dance upon a rigid base,<\/p>\n

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

His timeless still
\n\t\t\t\timmutability<\/p>\n

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

Must standardise her creation’s miracle.<\/p>\n

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

Out
\n\t\t\t\tof the Void’s unseeing energies<\/p>\n

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

Inventing the scene of a
\n\t\t\t\tconcrete universe,<\/p>\n

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

By his thought she has fixed its paces, in
\n\t\t\t\tits blind acts<\/p>\n

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

She sees by flashes of his all-knowing
\n\t\t\t\tLight.<\/p>\n

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

At her will the inscrutable Supermind leans down<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 110<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tguide her force that feels but cannot know,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIts
\n\t\t\t\tbreadth of power controls her restless seas<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tlife obeys the governing Idea.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAt
\n\t\t\t\ther will, led by a luminous Immanence<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\thazardous experimenting Mind<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPushes
\n\t\t\t\tits way through obscure possibles<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMid
\n\t\t\t\tchance formations of an unknowing world.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOur
\n\t\t\t\thuman ignorance moves towards the Truth<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThat
\n\t\t\t\tNescience may become omniscient:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTransmuted
\n\t\t\t\tinstincts shape to divine thoughts,<\/P><\/p>\n

Thoughts house infallible
\n\t\t\t\timmortal sight<\/p>\n

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

And Nature climbs towards God’s identity.<\/p>\n

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tMaster of the worlds self-made her slave<\/p>\n

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

Is the executor other
\n\t\t\t\tfantasies:<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\thas canalised the seas of omnipotence;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\thas limited by her laws the Illimitable.<\/P><\/p>\n

The Immortal bound
\n\t\t\t\thimself to do her works;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tlabours at the tasks her Ignorance sets,<\/P><\/p>\n

Hidden in the cape of
\n\t\t\t\tour mortality.<\/p>\n

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

The worlds, the forms her goddess fancy
\n\t\t\t\tmakes<\/p>\n

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

Have lost their origin on unseen heights:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tsevered, straying from their timeless source,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEven
\n\t\t\t\tdeformed, obscured, accursed and fallen,<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSince
\n\t\t\t\teven, fall has its perverted joy<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tnothing she leaves out that serves delight,<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThese
\n\t\t\t\ttoo can to the peaks revert or here<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tCut
\n\t\t\t\tout the sentence of the spirit’s fall,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tRecover
\n\t\t\t\ttheir forfeited divinity.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAt
\n\t\t\t\tonce caught in an eternal vision’s sweep<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHe
\n\t\t\t\tsaw her pride and splendour of highborn zones<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\ther regions crouching in the nether deeps.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbove
\n\t\t\t\twas a monarchy of unfallen self,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBeneath
\n\t\t\t\twas the gloomy trance of the abyss,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\topposite pole or dim antipodes.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\twere vasts of the glory of life’s absolutes:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tlaughed in a safe immortality<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tan eternal childhood of the soul<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBefore
\n\t\t\t\tdarkness came and pain and grief were born<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWhere
\n\t\t\t\tall could dare to be themselves and one<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tWisdom played in sinless innocence<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 111<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tWith
\n\t\t\t\tnaked Freedom in Truth’s happy sun.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\twere worlds of her laughter and dreadful irony,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\twere fields of her taste of toil and strife and tears;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHer
\n\t\t\t\thead lay on the breast of amorous Death,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSleep
\n\t\t\t\timitated awhile extinction’s peace.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tlight of God she has parted from his dark<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\ttest the savour of bare opposites.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHere
\n\t\t\t\tmingling in man’s heart their tones and hues<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHave
\n\t\t\t\twoven his being’s mutable design,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tlife a forward-rippling stream in Time,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tnature’s constant fixed mobility,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsoul a moving picture’s changeful film,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tcosmos-chaos of personality.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tgrand creatrix with her cryptic touch<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHas
\n\t\t\t\tturned to pathos and power being’s self-dream,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMade
\n\t\t\t\ta passion-play of its fathomless mystery,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     But
\n\t\t\t\there were worlds lifted half-way to heaven.<\/P><\/p>\n

The Veil was there
\n\t\t\t\tbut not the Shadowy Wall;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tforms not too remote from human grasp<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSome
\n\t\t\t\tpassion of the inviolate purity<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBroke
\n\t\t\t\tthrough, a ray of the original Bliss.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHeaven’s
\n\t\t\t\tjoys might have been earth’s if earth were pure.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tcould have reached our divinised sense and heart<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSome
\n\t\t\t\tnatural felicity’s bright extreme,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSome
\n\t\t\t\tthrill of supernature’s absolutes:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tstrengths could laugh and sport on earth’s hard roads<\/P><\/p>\n

And
\n\t\t\t\tnever feel her cruel edge of pain,<\/p>\n

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

All love could play and
\n\t\t\t\tnowhere Nature’s shame.<\/p>\n

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

But she has stabled her dreams in
\n\t\t\t\tMatter’s courts<\/p>\n

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

And still her doors are barred to things
\n\t\t\t\tsupreme.<\/p>\n

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

These worlds could feel God’s breath visiting their
\n\t\t\t\ttops;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSome
\n\t\t\t\tglimmer of the Transcendent’s hem was there.<\/P><\/p>\n

Across the white
\n\t\t\t\taeonic silences<\/p>\n

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

Immortal figures of embodied joy<\/p>\n

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

Traversed
\n\t\t\t\twide spaces near to eternity’s sleep.<\/p>\n

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

Pure mystic voices in
\n\t\t\t\tbeatitude’s hush<\/p>\n

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

Appealed to Love’s immaculate
\n\t\t\t\tsweetnesses,<\/p>\n

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

Calling his honeyed touch to thrill the
\n\t\t\t\tworlds,<\/p>\n

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

His blissful hands to seize on Nature’s limbs,<\/FONT><\/p>\n

<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 112<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsweet intolerant might of union<\/P><\/p>\n

To take all beings into his
\n\t\t\t\tsaviour arms,<\/p>\n

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

Drawing to his pity the rebel and the waif<\/p>\n

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

To
\n\t\t\t\tforce on them the happiness they refuse.<\/p>\n

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

A chant hymeneal to
\n\t\t\t\tthe unseen Divine,<\/p>\n

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

A flaming rhapsody of white desire<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLured
\n\t\t\t\tan immortal music into the heart<\/P><\/p>\n

And woke the slumbering ear
\n\t\t\t\tof ecstasy.<\/p>\n

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

A purer, fierier sense had there its home,<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tburning urge no earthly limbs can hold.<\/p>\n

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

One drew a large
\n\t\t\t\tunburdened spacious breath<\/p>\n

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

And the heart sped from beat to
\n\t\t\t\trapturous beat.<\/p>\n

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

The voice of rime sang of the Immortal’s joy;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tinspiration and a lyric cry,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tmoments came with ecstasy on their wings;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tBeauty
\n\t\t\t\tunimaginable moved heaven-bare<\/P><\/p>\n

Absolved from boundaries in the
\n\t\t\t\tvasts of dream;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tcry of the Birds of Wonder called from the skies<\/P><\/p>\n

To the
\n\t\t\t\tdeathless people of the shores of Light.<\/p>\n

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

Creation leaped
\n\t\t\t\tstraight from the hands of God;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMarvel
\n\t\t\t\tand rapture wandered in the ways.<\/P><\/p>\n

Only to be was a supreme
\n\t\t\t\tdelight,<\/p>\n

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

Life was a happy laughter of the soul<\/p>\n

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

And Joy was
\n\t\t\t\tking with Love for minister.<\/p>\n

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

The spirit’s luminousness was
\n\t\t\t\tbodied there.<\/p>\n

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

Life’s contraries were lovers or natural
\n\t\t\t\tfriends<\/p>\n

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

And her extremes keen edges of harmony:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIndulgence
\n\t\t\t\twith a tender purity came<\/P><\/p>\n

And nursed the god on her maternal
\n\t\t\t\tbreast:<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tnone was weak, so falsehood could not live;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIgnorance
\n\t\t\t\twas a thin shade protecting light,<\/P><\/p>\n

Imagination the free-will
\n\t\t\t\tof Truth,<\/p>\n

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

Pleasure a candidate for heaven’s fire;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tintellect was Beauty’s worshipper,<\/P><\/p>\n

Strength was the slave of
\n\t\t\t\tcalm spiritual law,<\/p>\n

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

Power laid its head upon the breasts of
\n\t\t\t\tBliss.<\/p>\n

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

There were summit glories inconceivable,<\/p>\n

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

Autonomies
\n\t\t\t\tof wisdom’s still self-rule<\/p>\n

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

And high dependencies of her
\n\t\t\t\tvirgin sun,<\/p>\n

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

Illumined theocracies of the seeing soul<\/p>\n

<\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t113<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThroned
\n\t\t\t\tin the power of the Transcendent’s ray.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tvision of grandeurs, a dream of magnitudes<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\tsun-bright kingdoms moved with regal gait:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAssemblies,
\n\t\t\t\tcrowded senates of the gods,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tLife’s
\n\t\t\t\tpuissances reigned on seats of marble will,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHigh
\n\t\t\t\tdominations and autocracies<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tlaurelled strengths and armed imperative mights.<\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tobjects there were great and beautiful,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tbeings wore a royal stamp of power.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tsat the oligarchies of natural Law,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tProud
\n\t\t\t\tviolent heads served one calm monarch brow:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\tthe soul’s postures donned divinity.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tmet the ardent mutual intimacies<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\tmastery’s joy and the joy of servitude<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tImposed
\n\t\t\t\tby Love on Love’s heart that obeys<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tLove’s body held beneath a rapturous yoke.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\twas a game of meeting kinglinesses.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFor
\n\t\t\t\tworship lifts the worshipper’s bowed strength<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tClose
\n\t\t\t\tto the god’s pride and bliss his soul adores:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\truler there is one with all he rules,<\/P><\/p>\n

To him who serves with a
\n\t\t\t\tfree equal heart<\/p>\n

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

Obedience is his princely training’s
\n\t\t\t\tschool,<\/p>\n

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

His nobility’s coronet and privilege,<\/p>\n

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

His faith is
\n\t\t\t\ta high nature’s idiom,<\/p>\n

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

His service a spiritual
\n\t\t\t\tsovereignty.<\/p>\n

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

There were realms where Knowledge joined creative
\n\t\t\t\tPower<\/p>\n

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

In her high home and made her all
\n\t\t\t\this own:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThe
\n\t\t\t\tgrand Illuminate seized her gleaming limbs<\/P><\/p>\n

And filled them
\n\t\t\t\twith the passion of his ray<\/p>\n

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

Till all her body was its
\n\t\t\t\ttransparent house<\/p>\n

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

And all her soul a counterpart of his
\n\t\t\t\tsoul.<\/p>\n

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

Apotheosised, transfigured by wisdom’s touch,<\/p>\n

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

Her
\n\t\t\t\tdays became a luminous sacrifice;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\timmortal moth in happy and endless fire,<\/P><\/p>\n

She burned in his
\n\t\t\t\tsweet intolerable blaze.<\/p>\n

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

A captive Life wedded her
\n\t\t\t\tconqueror.<\/p>\n

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

In his wide sky she built her world anew;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tgave to mind’s calm pace the motor’s speed,<\/P><\/p>\n

To thinking a need
\n\t\t\t\tto live what the soul saw,<\/p>\n

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

To living an impetus to know and
\n\t\t\t\tsee.<\/FONT><\/p>\n

<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t 114<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tHis
\n\t\t\t\tsplendour grasped her, her puissance to him clung;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tShe
\n\t\t\t\tcrowned the Idea a king in purple robes,<\/P><\/p>\n

Put her magic serpent
\n\t\t\t\tsceptre in Thought’s grip,<\/p>\n

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

Made forms his inward vision’s
\n\t\t\t\trhythmic shapes<\/p>\n

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

And her acts the living body of his will.<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tnaming thunder, a creator flash,<\/p>\n

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

His victor Light rode on her
\n\t\t\t\tdeathless Force<\/p>\n

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

A centaur’s mighty gallop bore the god.<\/p>\n

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

Life
\n\t\t\t\tthroned with mind, a double majesty.<\/p>\n

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

Worlds were there of a
\n\t\t\t\thappiness great and grave<\/p>\n

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

And action tinged with dream,
\n\t\t\t\tlaughter with thought,<\/p>\n

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

And passion there could wait for its
\n\t\t\t\tdesire<\/p>\n

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

Until it heard the near approach of God.<\/p>\n

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

Worlds were
\n\t\t\t\tthere of a childlike mirth and joy;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tcarefree youthfulness of mind and heart<\/P><\/p>\n

Found in the body a
\n\t\t\t\theavenly instrument;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tlit an aureate halo round desire<\/P><\/p>\n

And freed the deified animal
\n\t\t\t\tin the limbs<\/p>\n

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

To divine gambols of love and beauty and
\n\t\t\t\tbliss.<\/p>\n

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

On a radiant soil that gazed at heaven’s smile<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tswift life-impulse stinted not nor stopped:<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIt
\n\t\t\t\tknew not how to tire; happy were its tears.<\/P><\/p>\n

There work was
\n\t\t\t\tplay and play the only work,<\/p>\n

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

The tasks of heaven a game of
\n\t\t\t\tgodlike might:<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tcelestial bacchanal for ever pure,<\/P><\/p>\n

Unstayed by faintness as in
\n\t\t\t\tmortal frames<\/p>\n

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

Life was an eternity of rapture’s moods:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAge
\n\t\t\t\tnever came, care never lined the face.<\/P><\/p>\n

Imposing on the safety
\n\t\t\t\tof the stars<\/p>\n

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

A race and laughter of immortal strengths,<\/p>\n

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tnude God-children in their play-fields ran<\/p>\n

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

Smiting the winds
\n\t\t\t\twith splendour and with speed;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tOf
\n\t\t\t\tstorm and sun they made companions,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSported
\n\t\t\t\twith the white mane of tossing seas,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSlew
\n\t\t\t\tdistance trampled to death under their wheels<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\twrestled in the arenas of their force.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tImperious
\n\t\t\t\tin their radiance like the suns<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tkindled heaven with the glory of their limbs<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tFlung
\n\t\t\t\tlike a divine largesse to the world.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tspell to force the heart to stark delight,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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\n\t\t\t\t115<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThey
\n\t\t\t\tcarried the pride and mastery of their charm<\/P><\/p>\n

As if Life’s
\n\t\t\t\tbanner on the roads of Space.<\/p>\n

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

Ideas were luminous comrades of
\n\t\t\t\tthe soul;<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tMind
\n\t\t\t\tplayed with speech, cast javelins of thought,<\/P><\/p>\n

But needed not
\n\t\t\t\tthese instruments’ toil to know,<\/p>\n

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

Knowledge was Nature’s
\n\t\t\t\tpastime like the rest.<\/p>\n

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

Investitured with the fresh heart’s
\n\t\t\t\tbright ray,<\/p>\n

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

An early God-instinct’s child inheritors,<\/p>\n

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

Tenants
\n\t\t\t\tof the perpetuity of Time<\/p>\n

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

Still thrilling with the first
\n\t\t\t\tcreation’s bliss,<\/p>\n

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

They steeped existence in their youth of
\n\t\t\t\tsoul.<\/p>\n

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

An exquisite and vehement tyranny,<\/p>\n

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

The strong
\n\t\t\t\tcompulsion of their will to joy<\/p>\n

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

Poured smiling streams of
\n\t\t\t\thappiness through the world.<\/p>\n

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

There reigned a breath of high
\n\t\t\t\timmune content,<\/p>\n

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

A fortunate gait of days in tranquil air,<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tflood of universal love and peace.<\/p>\n

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

A sovereignty of tireless
\n\t\t\t\tsweetness lived<\/p>\n

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

Like a song of pleasure on the lips of Time.<\/p>\n

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

A
\n\t\t\t\tlarge spontaneous order freed the will,<\/p>\n

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

A sun-frank winging of
\n\t\t\t\tthe soul to bliss,<\/p>\n

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

The breadth and greatness of the unfettered
\n\t\t\t\tact<\/p>\n

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

And the swift fire-heart’s golden liberty.-<\/p>\n

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

There was
\n\t\t\t\tno falsehood of soul-severance,<\/p>\n

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

There came no crookedness of
\n\t\t\t\tthought or word<\/p>\n

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

To rob creation of its native truth;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAll
\n\t\t\t\twas sincerity and natural force.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tThere
\n\t\t\t\tfreedom was sole rule and highest law.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\ta happy series climbed or plunged these worlds:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tIn
\n\t\t\t\trealms of curious beauty and surprise,<\/P><\/p>\n

In fields of grandeur
\n\t\t\t\tand of titan power,<\/p>\n

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

Life played at ease with her immense
\n\t\t\t\tdesires.<\/p>\n

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

A thousand Edens she could build nor pause;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNo
\n\t\t\t\tbound was set to her greatness and to her grace<\/P><\/p>\n

And to her
\n\t\t\t\theavenly variety.<\/p>\n

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

Awake with a cry and stir of numberless
\n\t\t\t\tsouls,<\/p>\n

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

Arisen from the breast of some deep Infinite,<\/p>\n

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

Smiling
\n\t\t\t\tlike a new-born child at love and hope,<\/p>\n

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

In her nature housing
\n\t\t\t\tthe Immortal’s power,<\/p>\n

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

In her bosom bearing the eternal Will,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t


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\n\t\t\t\t 116<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tNo
\n\t\t\t\tguide she needed but her luminous heart:.<\/P><\/p>\n

No fall debased the
\n\t\t\t\tgodhead of her steps,<\/p>\n

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

No alien Night had come to blind her
\n\t\t\t\teyes.<\/p>\n

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

There was no use for grudging ring or fence;<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEach
\n\t\t\t\tact was a perfection and a joy.<\/P><\/p>\n

Abandoned to her rapid fancy’s
\n\t\t\t\tmoods<\/p>\n

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

And the rich coloured riot of her mind,\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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

Initiate of
\n\t\t\t\tdivine and mighty dreams,<\/p>\n

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

Magician builder of unnumbered
\n\t\t\t\tforms<\/p>\n

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

Exploring the measures of the rhythms of God,<\/p>\n

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

At will
\n\t\t\t\tshe wove her wizard wonder-dance,<\/p>\n

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

A Dionysian goddess of
\n\t\t\t\tdelight,<\/p>\n

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

A Bacchant of creative ecstasy.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t     This
\n\t\t\t\tworld of bliss he saw and felt its call,<\/P><\/p>\n

But found no way to
\n\t\t\t\tenter into its joy,<\/p>\n

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

Across the conscious gulf there was no
\n\t\t\t\tbridge.<\/p>\n

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

A darker air encircled still his soul<\/p>\n

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

Tied to an
\n\t\t\t\timage of unquiet life.<\/p>\n

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

In spite of yearning mind and longing
\n\t\t\t\tsense,<\/p>\n

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

To a sad Thought by grey experience formed<\/p>\n

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

And a
\n\t\t\t\tvision dimmed by care and sorrow and sleep<\/p>\n

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

All this seemed
\n\t\t\t\tonly a bright desirable dream<\/p>\n

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

Conceived in a longing distance
\n\t\t\t\tby the heart<\/p>\n

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

Of one who walks in the shadow of
\n\t\t\t\tearth-pain.<\/p>\n

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

Although he once had felt the Etemal’s clasp,<\/p>\n

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

Too
\n\t\t\t\tnear to suffering worlds his nature lived,<\/p>\n

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

And where he stood
\n\t\t\t\twere entrances of Night.<\/p>\n

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

Hardly, too close beset by the
\n\t\t\t\tworld’s care,<\/p>\n

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

Can the dense mould in which we have been
\n\t\t\t\tmade<\/p>\n

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

Return sheer joy to joy, pure light to light.<\/p>\n

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

For its
\n\t\t\t\ttormented will to think and live<\/p>\n

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

First to a mingled pain and
\n\t\t\t\tpleasure woke<\/p>\n

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

And still it keeps the habit of its birth:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tdire duality is our way to be.<\/P><\/p>\n

In the crude beginnings of this
\n\t\t\t\tmortal world<\/p>\n

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

Life was not nor mind’s play nor heart’s
\n\t\t\t\tdesire.<\/p>\n

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

When earth was built in the unconscious Void<\/p>\n

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

And
\n\t\t\t\tnothing was save a material scene,<\/p>\n

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

Identified with sea and sky
\n\t\t\t\tand stone<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tPage
\n\t\t\t\t117<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tHer young gods yearned for the
\n\t\t\t\trelease of souls <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tA sleep in objects, vague,
\n\t\t\t\tinanimate.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tIn that desolate grandeur, in
\n\t\t\t\tthat beauty bare,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tIn the deaf stillness, mid the
\n\t\t\t\tunheeded sounds,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tHeavy was the uncommunicated
\n\t\t\t\tload<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tOf Godhead in a world that had
\n\t\t\t\tno needs;<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tFor none was there to feel or
\n\t\t\t\tto receive.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThis solid .mass which brooked
\n\t\t\t\tno throb of sense<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tCould not contain their vast
\n\t\t\t\tcreative urge:<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tImmersed no more in Matter’s
\n\t\t\t\tharmony,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThe Spirit lost its statuesque
\n\t\t\t\trepose.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tIn the uncaring trance it
\n\t\t\t\tgroped for sight,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tPassioned for the movements of
\n\t\t\t\ta conscious heart,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tFamishing for speech and
\n\t\t\t\tthought and joy and love,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tIn the dumb insensitive
\n\t\t\t\twheeling day and night<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tHungered for the beat of
\n\t\t\t\tyearning and response.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThe poised inconscience shaken
\n\t\t\t\twith a touch,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThe intuitive silence
\n\t\t\t\ttrembling with a name,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThey cried to Life to invade
\n\t\t\t\tthe senseless mould<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tAnd in brute forms awake
\n\t\t\t\tdivinity.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tA voice was heard on the mute
\n\t\t\t\trolling globe,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tA murmur moaned in the
\n\t\t\t\tunlistening Void.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tA being seemed to breathe
\n\t\t\t\twhere once was none:<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tSomething pent up in dead
\n\t\t\t\tinsentient depths,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tDenied conscious existence,
\n\t\t\t\tlost to joy,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tTurned as if one asleep since
\n\t\t\t\tdateless time.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tAware of its own buried
\n\t\t\t\treality,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tRemembering its forgotten self
\n\t\t\t\tand right,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tIt yearned to know, to aspire,
\n\t\t\t\tto enjoy, to live.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tLife heard the call and left
\n\t\t\t\ther native light.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tOverflowing from her bright
\n\t\t\t\tmagnificent plane<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tOn the rigid coil and sprawl
\n\t\t\t\tof mortal space,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tHere too the gracious
\n\t\t\t\tgreat-winged Angel poured<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tHer splendour and her
\n\t\t\t\tsweetness and her bliss,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tHoping to fill a fair new
\n\t\t\t\tworld with joy.<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tAs comes a goddess to a
\n\t\t\t\tmortal’s breast<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tAnd fills his days with her
\n\t\t\t\tcelestial clasp,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tShe stooped to make her home
\n\t\t\t\tin transient shapes;<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tIn Matter’s womb
\n\t\t\t\tshe cast the Immortal’s fire,<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tIn the unfeeling Vast woke
\n\t\t\t\tthought and hope,<\/span> <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSmote
\n\t\t\t\twith her charm and beauty flesh and nerve<\/P><\/p>\n

And forced delight
\n\t\t\t\ton earth’s insensible frame.<\/p>\n

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

Alive and clad with trees and
\n\t\t\t\therbs and flowers<\/p>\n

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

Earth’s great brown body smiled towards the
\n\t\t\t\tskies,<\/p>\n

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

Azure replied to azure in the sea’s laugh,<\/p>\n

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

New
\n\t\t\t\tsentient creatures filled the unseen depths,<\/p>\n

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

Life’s glory and
\n\t\t\t\tswiftness ran in the beauty of beasts,<\/p>\n

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

Man dared and thought
\n\t\t\t\tand met with his soul the world.<\/p>\n

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

But while the magic breath
\n\t\t\t\twas on its way,<\/p>\n

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

Before her gifts could reach our prisoned
\n\t\t\t\thearts,<\/p>\n

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

A dark ambiguous Presence questioned all.<\/p>\n

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

The
\n\t\t\t\tsecret Will that robes itself with Night<\/p>\n

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

And offers to spirit
\n\t\t\t\tthe ordeal of the flesh,<\/p>\n

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

Imposed a mystic mask of death and
\n\t\t\t\tpain.<\/p>\n

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

Interned now in the slow and suffering years<\/p>\n

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

Sojourns
\n\t\t\t\tthe winged and wonderful wayfarer<\/p>\n

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

And can no more recall her
\n\t\t\t\thappier state,<\/p>\n

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

But must obey the inert Inconscient’s
\n\t\t\t\tlaw,<\/p>\n

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

Insensible foundation of a world<\/p>\n

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

In which blind limits
\n\t\t\t\tare on beauty laid<\/p>\n

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

And sorrow and joy as struggling comrades
\n\t\t\t\tlive.<\/p>\n

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

A dim and dreadful muteness fell on her:<\/SPAN><\/FONT>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAbolished
\n\t\t\t\twas her subtle mighty spirit<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tslain her boon of child-god happiness,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tall her glory into<\/i><\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\tlittleness
\n\t\t\t\tturned<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAnd
\n\t\t\t\tall her sweetness into a maimed desire.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tTo
\n\t\t\t\tfeed death with her works is here life’s doom.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSo
\n\t\t\t\tveiled was her immortality that she seemed,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tInflicting
\n\t\t\t\tconsciousness on unconscious things,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tAn
\n\t\t\t\tepisode in an eternal death,<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tA
\n\t\t\t\tmyth of being that must for ever cease.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tSuch
\n\t\t\t\twas the evil mystery of her change.<\/SPAN><\/FONT>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t <\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\tEND
\n\t\t\t\tOF CANTO THREE<\/SPAN><\/FONT> <\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/P>
\n\t\t\t\t


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\n\t\t\t\t 119<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P>
\n\t\t\t<\/TD>
\n\t\t\t


\n\t\t\t\t

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