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\nPART TWO<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\nBooks IV – VIII<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBOOK FOUR<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Book of Birth and Quest<\/font><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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CANTO ONE<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTHE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF THE FLAME<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/font>
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A<\/font> MAENAD<\/font><\/b><\/span> of the cycles of desire<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAround a Light she must not dare to touch,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHastening towards a far-off unknown goal<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEarth followed the endless journey of the Sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA mind but half-awake in the swing of the void<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOn the bosom of Inconscience dreamed out life<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd bore this finite world of thought and deed<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAcross the immobile trance of the Infinite.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA vast immutable silence with her ran:<\/span><\/font>
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Prisoner of speed upon a jewelled wheel..<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe communed with the mystic heart in Space.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAmid the ambiguous stillness of the stars<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe moved towards some undisclosed event<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd her rhythm measured the long whirl of Time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn ceaseless motion round the purple rim<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDay after day sped by like coloured spokes,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd through a glamour of shifting hues of air<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe seasons drew in linked significant dance<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe symbol pageant of the changing year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAcross the burning langour of the soil<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPaced Summer with his pomp of violent noons<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd stamped his tyranny of torrid light<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the blue seal of a great burnished sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNext through its fiery swoon or clotted knot<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rain-tide burst in upon torn wings of heat,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Startled with lightnings air’s unquiet drowse,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lashed with life-giving streams the torpid soil,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Overcast with flare and sound and storm-winged dark<\/font><\/p>\n

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The star-defended doors of heaven’s dim sleep,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or from the gold eye of her paramour<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nCovered with packed cloud-veils the earth’s brown face.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Armies of revolution crossed the time-field,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The clouds’ unending march besieged the world,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Tempests’ pronunciamentos claimed the sky<\/font><\/p>\n

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And thunder drums announced the embattled gods.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A traveller from unquiet neighbouring seas<\/font><\/p>\n

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The dense-maned monsoon rode neighing through earth’s hours:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thick now the emissary javelins:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Enormous lightnings split the horizon’s rim<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd, hurled from the quarters as from contending camps,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Married heaven’s edges steep and bare and blind:<\/font><\/p>\n

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A surge and hiss and onset of huge rain,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The long straight sleet-drift, clamours of winged storm-charge,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Throngs of wind-faces, rushing of wind-feet<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hurrying swept through the prone afflicted plains:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Heaven’s waters trailed and dribbled through the drowned land.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then all was a swift stride, a sibilant race,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or all was tempest’s shout and water’s fall.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A dimness sagged on the grey floor of day,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Its dingy sprawling length joined morn to eve,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Wallowing in sludge and shower it reached black dark.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Day a half darkness wore as its dull dress.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Light looked into dawn’s tarnished glass and met<\/font><\/p>\n

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Its own face there, twin to a half-lit night’s:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Downpour and drip and seeping mist swayed all<\/span><\/p>\n

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Earth was a quagmire, heaven a dismal block.<\/font><\/p>\n

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None saw through dank drenched wicks the dungeon sun.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even when no turmoil vexed air’s sombre rest,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or a faint ray glimmered through weeping clouds<\/font><\/p>\n

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As a sad smile gleams veiled by returning tears,<\/font><\/p>\n

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All promised brightness failed at once denied<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or, soon condemned, died like a brief-lived hope.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then a last massive deluge thrashed dead mire<\/font><\/p>\n

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And a subsiding mutter left all still,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or only the muddy creep of sinking floods<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or only a whisper and green toss of trees.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Earth’s mood now changed; she lay in lulled repose,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The hours went by with slow contented tread:<\/font><\/p>\n

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A wide and tranquil air remembered peace,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Earth was the comrade of a happy sun.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A calmness neared as of the approach of God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A light of musing trance lit soil and sky.<\/font><\/p>\n

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And an identity and ecstasy<\/font><\/p>\n

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Filled meditation’s solitary heart.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A dream loitered in the dumb mind of Space,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Time opened its chambers of felicity,<\/font><\/p>\n

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An exaltation entered and a hope:<\/font><\/p>\n

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An inmost self looked up to a heavenlier height,<\/font><\/p>\n

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An inmost thought kindled a hidden flame<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the inner sight adored an unseen sun.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Three thoughtful seasons passed with shining tread<\/font><\/p>\n

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And scanning one by one the pregnant hours<\/font><\/p>\n

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Watched for a flame that lurked in luminous depths,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The vigil of some mighty birth to come.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Autumn led in the glory of her moons<\/font><\/p>\n

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And dreamed in the splendour of her lotus pools<\/font><\/p>\n

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And Winter and Dew-time laid their calm cool hands<\/font>
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On Nature’s bosom still in a half sleep<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd deepened with hues of lax and mellow ease<\/font><\/p>\n

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The tranquil beauty of the waning year.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then Spring, an ardent lover, leaped through leaves<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd caught the earth-bride in his eager clasp;<\/font><\/p>\n

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His advent was a fire of irised hues,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis arms were a circle of the arrival of joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis voice was a call to the Transcendent’s sphere<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhose secret touch upon our mortal lives<\/span><\/p>\n

\nKeeps ever new the thrill that made the world,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRemoulds an ancient sweetness to new shapes<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd guards intact unchanged by death and Time<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe answer of our hearts to Nature’s charm<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd keeps for ever new, yet still the same,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe throb that ever wakes to the old delight<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd beauty and rapture and the joy to live.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis coming brought the magic and the spell,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAt his touch life’s tired heart grew glad and young;<\/span><\/font>
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He made joy a willing prisoner in her breast.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis grasp was a young god’s upon earth’s limbs:<\/span><\/font>
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Changed by the passion of his divine outbreak<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe made her body beautiful with his kiss.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nImpatient for felicity he came,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHigh-fluting with the coil’s happy voice,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis peacock turban trailing on the trees;<\/span><\/font>
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His breath was a warm summons to delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe dense voluptuous azure was his gaze.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA soft celestial urge surprised the blood<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRich with the instinct of God’s sensuous joys;<\/span><\/font>
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Revealed in beauty, a cadence was abroad<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInsistent on the rapture-thrill in life:<\/span><\/font>
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A godlike .packed intensity of sense<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMade it a passionate pleasure even to breathe;<\/span><\/font>
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All sights and voices wove a single charm.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe life of the enchanted globe became<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA storm of sweetness and of light and song,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA revel of colour and of ecstasy,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA hymn of rays, a litany of cries:<\/span><\/font>
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A strain of choral priestly music sang<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd, swung on the swaying censer of the trees,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA sacrifice of perfume filled the hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAsocas burned in crimson spots of flame,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPure like the breath of an unstained desire<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhite jasmines haunted the enamoured air,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPale mango-blossoms fed the liquid voice<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOf the love-maddened coil, and the brown bee<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMuttered in fragrance mid the honey-buds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe sunlight was a great god’s golden smile.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll Nature was at beauty’s festival.<\/span><\/font>
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In this high signal moment of the gods<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnswering earth’s yearning and her cry for bliss<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA greatness from our other countries came.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA silence in the noise of earthly things<\/span><\/p>\n

\nImmutably revealed the secret Word,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA mightier influx filled the oblivious clay:<\/span><\/font>
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A lamp was lit, a sacred image made.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA mediating ray has touched the earth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBridging the gulf between man’s mind and God’s;<\/span><\/font>
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Translating heaven into a human shape<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIts brightness linked our transience to the Unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA spirit of its celestial source aware<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDescended into earth’s imperfect mould<\/span><\/p>\n

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And wept not fallen to mortality,<\/font><\/p>\n

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But looked on all with large and tranquil eyes.<\/font><\/p>\n

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One had returned from the transcendent planes<\/font><\/p>\n

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And bore anew the load of mortal breath,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Who had striven of old with our darkness and our pain;<\/font><\/p>\n

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She took again her divine unfinished task:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Survivor of death and the aeonic years,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Once more with her fathomless heart she
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Again there was renewed, again revealed<\/font><\/p>\n

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The ancient closeness by earth-vision veiled,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The secret contact broken off in Time,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A consanguinity of earth and heaven,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Between the human portion toiling here<\/font><\/p>\n

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And an as yet unborn and limitless Force.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Again the mystic deep attempt began,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The daring wager of the cosmic game.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For since upon this blind and whirling globe<\/font><\/p>\n

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And life invaded the material sheath<\/font><\/p>\n

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Afflicting Inconscience with the need to feel,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Since in Infinity’s silence woke a word,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A Mother wisdom works in Nature’s breast<\/font><\/p>\n

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To pour delight on the heart of toil and want<\/font><\/p>\n

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And press perfection on life’s stumbling powers,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Impose heaven-sentience on the obscure abyss<\/font><\/p>\n

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And make dumb Matter conscious of its God.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Although our fallen minds forget to climb,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Although our human stuff resists or breaks,<\/font><\/p>\n

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She keeps her will that hopes to divinise clay?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Failure cannot repress, defeat o’erthrow;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Time cannot weary her nor the Void subdue,<\/span><\/p>\n

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No victory she admits of Death or Fate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAlways she drives the souls to new attempt;<\/span><\/font>
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Always her magical infinitude<\/font><\/p>\n

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Forces to aspire the inert brute elements;<\/font><\/p>\n

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As one who has all infinity to waste,<\/font><\/p>\n

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She scatters the seed of the Eternal’s strength<\/font><\/p>\n

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On a half-animate and crumbling mould,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Plants heaven’s delight in the heart’s passionate mire,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Pours godhead’s seekings into a bare beast frame,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hides immortality in a mask of death.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Once more that Will put on an earthly shape.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A Mind empowered from Truth’s immutable seat<\/font><\/p>\n

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Was framed for vision and interpreting act<\/font><\/p>\n

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And instruments were sovereignly designed<\/font><\/p>\n

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To express divinity in terrestrial signs.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Outlined by the pressure of this new descent<\/font><\/p>\n

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A lovelier body formed than earth had known.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As yet a prophecy only and a hint,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The glowing arc of a charmed unseen whole,<\/font><\/p>\n

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It came into the sky of mortal life<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bright like the crescent horn of a gold moon<\/font><\/p>\n

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Returning in a faint illumined eve.<\/font><\/p>\n

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At first glimmering like an unshaped idea<\/font><\/p>\n

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Passive she lay sheltered in wordless sleep,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Involved and drowned in Matter’s giant trance,<\/font><\/p>\n

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An infant heart of the deep-caved world-plan<\/font><\/p>\n

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In cradle of divine inconscience rocked<\/font><\/p>\n

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By the universal ecstasy of the suns.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Some missioned Power in the half-wakened frame<\/font><\/p>\n

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Nursed a transcendent birth’s dumb glorious seed<\/font><\/p>\n

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For which this vivid tenement was made.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But soon the link of soul with form grew
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Flooded was the dim cave with slow conscient light,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe seed grew into a delicate marvellous bud,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe bud disclosed a great and heavenly bloom.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAt once she seemed to found a mightier race.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Arrived upon the strange and dubious globe<\/font><\/p>\n

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The child remembering inly a far home<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lived guarded in her spirit’s luminous cell,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Alone mid men in her diviner kind.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nEven in her childish movements could be felt<\/font><\/p>\n

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The nearness of a light still kept from earth,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Feelings that only eternity could share,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thoughts natural and native to the gods.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As needing nothing but its own rapt flight<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her nature dwelt in a strong separate air<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like a strange bird with large rich-coloured breast<\/font><\/p>\n

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That sojourns on a secret fruited bough<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lost in the emerald glory of the woods<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or flies above divine unreachable tops.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Harmoniously she impressed the earth with heaven.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Aligned to a swift rhythm of sheer delight<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd singing to themselves her days went by;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Each minute was a throb of beauty’s heart,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe hours were tuned to a sweet-toned content<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nWhich asked for nothing, but took all life gave<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sovereignly as her nature’s inborn right.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Near was her spirit to its parent Sun,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Breath within to the eternal joy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The first fair life that. breaks from Nature’s swoon,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mounts in a line of rapture to the skies,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Absorbed in its own happy urge it lives,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sufficient to itself, yet turned to all.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It has no seen communion with its world,<\/font>
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No open converse with surrounding things.<\/font><\/p>\n

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There is a oneness native and occult<\/font><\/p>\n

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That needs no instruments and erects no form;<\/font><\/p>\n

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In unison it grows with all that is,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll contacts it assumes into its trance,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLaugh-tossed consents to the wind’s kiss and takes<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTransmutingly the shocks of sun and breeze:<\/span><\/font>
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A blissful yearning riots in its leaves,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A magic passion trembles in its blooms,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Its boughs aspire in hushed felicity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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An occult godhead of this beauty is cause,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The spirit and intimate guest of all this charm,<\/font><\/p>\n

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This sweetness’s priestess and this reverie’s muse.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Invisibly protected from our sense<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Dryad lives drenched in a deeper ray<\/font><\/p>\n

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And feels another air of storms and calms<\/font><\/p>\n

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And quivers inwardly with mystic rain.<\/font><\/p>\n

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This at a heavenlier height was shown in her.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even when she bent to meet earth’s intimacies<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her spirit kept the stature of the gods;<\/font><\/p>\n

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It stooped but was not lost in Matter’s reign.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA world translated was her gleaming mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd marvel-mooned bright crowding fantasies<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFed with spiritual sustenance of dreams<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe ideal goddess in her house of gold.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAware of forms to which our eyes are closed,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nConscious of nearnesses we cannot feel,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Power within her shaped her moulding sense<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn deeper figures than our surface types.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAn invisible sunlight ran within her veins<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd flooded her brain with heavenly brilliancies<\/span><\/p>\n

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Outlined in the sincerity of that ray<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her springing childlike thoughts were richly turned<\/font><\/p>\n

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And from her eyes she cast another look<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOn all around her than man’s ignorant view.<\/font><\/p>\n

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And she perceived a message from her kin<\/font><\/p>\n

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In each awakening touch of outward things.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Each was a symbol power, a vivid flash<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the circuit of infinities half-known;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Nothing was alien or inanimate,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNothing without its meaning or its call.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFor with a greater Nature she was one.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAs from the soil sprang glory of branch and flower,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAs from the animal’s life rose thinking man,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA new epiphany appeared in her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA mind of light, a life of rhythmic force,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA body instinct with hidden divinity<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPrepared an image of the coming god;<\/span><\/font>
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And when the slow rhyme of the expanding years<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the rich murmurous swarm-work of the days<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHad honey-packed her sense and filled her limbs,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAccomplishing the moon-orb of her grace,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSelf-guarded in the silence of her strength<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer solitary greatness was not less.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNearer the godhead to the surface pressed,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA sun replacing childhood’s nebula<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSovereign in a blue and lonely sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nUpward it rose to grasp the human scene:<\/span><\/font>
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The strong Inhabitant turned to watch her field,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA lovelier light assumed her spirit brow<\/span><\/p>\n

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Celestial-human deep warm slumberous fires<\/font><\/p>\n

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Woke in the long fringed glory of her eyes<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like altar-burnings in a mysteried shrine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Out of those crystal windows gleamed a will<\/font><\/p>\n

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That brought a large significance to life.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Holding her forehead’s candid stainless space<\/font><\/p>\n

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Behind the student arch a noble power<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of wisdom looked from light on transient things.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A scout of victory in a vigil tower,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her aspiration called high destiny down;<\/font><\/p>\n

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A silent warrior paced in her city of strength<\/font><\/p>\n

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Inviolate, guarding Truth’s diamond throne.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A nectarous haloed moon her passionate heart<\/font><\/p>\n

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Loved all and spoke no word and made no sign,<\/font><\/p>\n

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But kept her bosom’s rapturous secrecy<\/font><\/p>\n

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A blissful ardent moved and voiceless world.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Proud, swift and joyful ran the wave of life<\/font><\/p>\n

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Within her like a stream in Paradise.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Many high gods dwelt in one beautiful home,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet was her nature’s orb a perfect whole,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Harmonious like a chant with many tones,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Immense and various like a universe.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The body that held this greatness seemed almost<\/font><\/p>\n

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An image made of heaven’s transparent light.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Its charm recalled things seen in vision’s hours,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A golden bridge spanning a faery flood,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A moon-touched palm tree single by a lake<\/font><\/p>\n

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Companion of the wide and glimmering peace,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A murmur as of leaves in Paradise<\/font><\/p>\n

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Moving when feet of the Immortals pass,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A fiery halo over sleeping hills,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A strange and starry head alone in Night.<\/font>
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