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

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

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A<\/font> MARVELLOUS<\/font><\/b> sun looked down from ecstasy’s skies<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nDomains appeared<\/span><\/font>1<\/font><\/sup><\/span> of sempiternal light<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nIn serene arches of translucent calm<\/span><\/font>
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From Wonder’s dream-vasts cloudless skies slid down<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

\nFirm in the bosom of immensity<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSpiritual breadths were seen, sublimely born<\/span><\/p>\n

\nProm a still beauty of creative joy;<\/span><\/font>
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Embodied thoughts to sweet dimensions held<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nPlanned by the artist who has dreamed the worlds;<\/span><\/font>
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Of all the beauty and the marvel here,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nEternity was the substance and the source;<\/span><\/font>
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Not from a plastic mist of Matter made,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nAnd opened the great series of their powers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nArisen beneath a triple mystic heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe seven immortal earths were seen sublime:<\/span><\/font>
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Homes of the blest released from death and sleep<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhere grief can never come nor any pang<\/span><\/p>\n

\nArriving from self-lost and seeking worlds<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAlter Heaven-nature’s changeless quietude<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Plains lay that seemed the expanse of God’s wide sleep, .<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thought’s wings climbed up towards heaven’s vast repose<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Or the couch of the unknown spiritual rest,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A vast quiescence swallowing up all sound<\/font><\/p>\n

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Into a voicelessness of utter bliss;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even Matter brought a close spiritual touch,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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Eternal mountains ridge on gleaming ridge<\/font><\/p>\n

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Whose lines were graved as on a sapphire plate<\/font><\/p>\n

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And etched the borders of heaven’s lustrous noon<\/font><\/p>\n

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Climbed like piled temple stairs and from their heads<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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The approach of a blue pilgrim multitude<\/font><\/p>\n

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And listened to a great arriving voice<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of the wide travel hymn of timeless seas.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A chanting crowd from mountain bosoms slipped<\/font><\/p>\n

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Past branches fragrant with a sigh of flowers<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hurrying through sweetnesses with revel leaps;<\/font><\/p>\n

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The murmurous rivers of felicity<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDivinely rippled, honey-voiced desires,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMingling their sister eddies of delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nDown many-glimmered estuaries of dream<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWent whispering into lakes of liquid peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOn a brink held of senseless ecstasy <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Sat sculptured souls dreaming by rivers of sound<\/font><\/p>\n

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In changeless attitudes of marble bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Around her lived the children of God’s day<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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A happiness never lost, the immortal’s ease,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A glad eternity’s blissful multitude.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Around, the deathless nations moved and spoke,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Faces of stark beauty, limbs of the moulded Ray;<\/font><\/p>\n

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In cities cut like gems of conscious stone<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd wonderful pastures and on gleaming coasts<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nAbove her rhythming godheads whirled the spheres,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRapt mobile fixities here blindly sought<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBy the huge erring orbits of our stars.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEcstatic voices smote at hearing’s chords,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEach movement found a music all its own;<\/span><\/font>
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Songs thrilled of birds upon unfading boughs,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The colours of whose plumage had been caught<\/font><\/p>\n

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From the rainbow of imagination’s wings.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Immortal fragrance packed the quivering breeze,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In groves that seemed moved bosoms and trembling depths<\/font><\/p>\n

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The million children of the undying spring<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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Faery flower-masses looked with laughing eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nImmortal harmonies filled her listening ear;<\/span><\/font>
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A great spontaneous utterance of the heights<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nA spirit brooded in the leaf and stone;<\/span><\/font>
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The voices of thought-conscious instruments<\/font><\/p>\n

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Along a living verge of silence strayed,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And from some deep, a wordless tongue of things<\/font><\/p>\n

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Unfathomed, inexpressible, chantings rose<\/font><\/p>\n

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Translating into a voice the Unknown.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A climber on the invisible stair of sound,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Music not with these few and striving steps<\/font>
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Aspired that wander upon transient strings,<\/font><\/p>\n

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But changed its ever new uncounted notes<\/font><\/p>\n

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In a passion of unforeseeing discovery,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And kept its old unforgotten ecstasies<\/font><\/p>\n

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A growing treasure in the mystic heart.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A consciousness that yearned through every cry<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of unexplored attraction and desire,<\/font><\/p>\n

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It found and searched again the unsatisfied deeps<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hunting as if in some deep secret heart<\/font><\/p>\n

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To find some lost or missed felicity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In those far-lapsing symphonies she could hear,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Breaking through enchantments of the ravished sense,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Mid spume and laughter tempting with its prow<\/font><\/p>\n

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The charm of innocent Circean isles,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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In lands where siren Wonder sings its lures<\/font><\/p>\n

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From rhythmic rocks in ever-foaming seas.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the harmony of an original sight<\/font>
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Delivered from our limiting ray of thought,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Trembling because she cannot understand,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Here rapture was a common incident;<\/font><\/p>\n

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The lovelinesses of whose captured thrill<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nArrived to fathom a deep physical joy;<\/span><\/font>
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The heart was a torch lit from infinity,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nEndless aspired the climbing of those heavens;<\/span><\/font>
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Realm upon realm received her soaring view.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then on what seemed one crown of the ascent<\/font><\/p>\n

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Where finite and the infinite are one,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Immune she beheld the strong immortals’ seats<\/font><\/p>\n

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Who live for a celestial joy and rule<\/font><\/p>\n

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The middle regions of the unfading Ray.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Great forms of deities sat in deathless tiers,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Eyes of an unborn gaze towards her leaned<\/font><\/p>\n

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Through a transparency of crystal fire.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Shapes of entrancing sweetness stilling bliss,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Heaven’s cup-bearers bore round the
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A tangle of bright bodies, of moved souls<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTracing the close and intertwined delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe harmonious tread of lives for ever joined<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn the passionate oneness of a mystic joy<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAs if sun-beams made living and divine,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe golden-bosomed Apsara goddesses,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn groves flooded from an argent disk of bliss<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThat floated through a luminous sapphire dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn a cloud of raiment lit with golden limbs<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd gleaming footfalls treading faery swards,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nVirgin motions of bacchant innocences<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWho know their riot for a dance of God<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhirled linked in moonlit revels of the heart.<\/span><\/font>
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Impeccable artists of unerring forms,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Magician builders of sound and rhythmic words,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Wind-haired Gundhurvas chanted to the ear<\/font><\/p>\n

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The odes that shape the universal thought,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Immortal figures and illumined brows,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Our great forefathers in those splendours moved;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Termless in power and satisfied of light,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nHigh seers, moved poets saw the eternal thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThat, travellers from on high, arrive to us<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDeformed by our search, tricked by costuming mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLike gods disfigured by the pangs of birth,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSeized the great words which now are frail sounds caught<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBy difficult rapture on a mortal tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

\nSmitten like a lyre that throbs to others bliss,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

\nBeyond what tongue can utter or mind dream:<\/span><\/font>
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Worlds of an infinite reach crowned Nature’s stir.<\/font><\/p>\n

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There was a greater tranquil sweetness there,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A subtler and profounder ether’s field<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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There breath carried a stream of seeing mind,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Form was a tenuous raiment of the soul;<\/font>
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Colour was a visible tone of ecstasy;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Shapes seen half immaterial by the gaze<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Made sensible to touch the indwelling spirit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The high perfected sense illumined lived<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Each feeling was the Eternal’s mighty child<\/font><\/p>\n

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And every thought was a sweet burning god.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Air was a luminous feeling, sound a voice,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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On a wide living base of wordless calm<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Into those heights her spirit went floating up ;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like an upsoaring bird who mounts unseen<\/span><\/p>\n

\nVoicing to the ascent his throbbing heart<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOf melody till a pause of closing wings<\/span><\/p>\n

\nComes quivering in his last contented cry<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd he is silent with his soul discharged,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDelivered of his heart’s burden of delight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nExperience mounted on joy’s coloured breast<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo inaccessible spheres in spiral flight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThere Time dwelt with Eternity as one;<\/span><\/font>
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Immense felicity joined rapt repose.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As one drowned in a sea of splendour and bliss<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Transfigured was the formidable shape.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Abolishing for ever and disclosing<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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Had outlined from the terrible Unknown<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Illumined letterings are seen which kept<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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All Nature’s struggle was its easy price,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The universe and its agony seemed worth while.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Took shape out of the tremulous heart of things.<\/font><\/p>\n

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There was no more the torment under the stars,<\/font>
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The evil sheltered behind Nature’s mask;<\/font><\/p>\n

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There was no more the dark pretence of hate,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nHate was the grip of a dreadful amour’s strife;<\/span><\/font>
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A ruthless love intent only to possess<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHas here replaced the sweet original god;<\/span><\/font>
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Forgetting the Will-to-love that gave it birth,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nDeath’s sombre cowl was cast from Nature’s brow;<\/span><\/font>
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There lightened on her the godhead’s lurking love.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nWere here collected in a single form;<\/span><\/font>
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All worshipped eyes looked through his from one face;<\/font><\/p>\n

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He bore all godheads in his grandiose limbs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAn oceanic spirit dwelt within;<\/span><\/font>
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Intolerant and invincible in joy<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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The universe writing its tremendous sense<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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Virat, who lights his camp-fires in the suns<\/font>
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And the star-entangled ether is his hold;<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Objects are his letters, forces are his words,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nMatter is his means and his spiritual sign;<\/span><\/font>
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He hangs the thought upon a lash’s lift,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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His is the dumb will of atom and of clod;<\/font><\/p>\n

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A Will that without sense or motive acts,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nThe world creates itself invincibly;<\/span><\/font>
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For its body is the body of the Lord<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nWho in the Sun-capped Vast cradles his birth:<\/span><\/font>
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Hiranyagarbha, author of thoughts and dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nHe is the leader on the inner roads;<\/span><\/font>
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A seer, he has entered the forbidden realms;<\/font><\/p>\n

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A magician with the omnipotent wand of thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nHis is the vision and the prophecy:<\/span><\/font>
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Imagist casting the formless into shape,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

\nHe is the invisible hunter of the light,<\/span><\/font>
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The Angel of mysterious ecstasies,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nAll from his stillness came as grows a tree;<\/span><\/font>
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He is our seed and core, our head and base.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll light is but a flash from his closed eyes:<\/span><\/font>
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An all-wise Truth is mystic in his heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe omniscient Ray is shut behind his lids:<\/span><\/font>
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He is the Wisdom that comes not by thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nHe sleeps in man and god and beast and stone:<\/span><\/font>
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Because he is there the Inconscient does its work,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBecause he is there the world forgets to die,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe is the centre of the circle of God,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nWhatever happiness comes in dream and trance,<\/span><\/font>
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The nectar spilled by love with trembling hands,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nHad come to birth in him and taken fire:<\/span><\/font>
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The secret whisper of the flower and star<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nHis lips curved eloquent like a rose of dawn;<\/span><\/font>
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His smile that played with the wonder of the mind<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

\nHis gaze was the regard of eternity,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe spirit of its sweet and calm intent<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nAnd dwelt like brothers of one family<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWho had found their common and mysterious home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAs from the harp of some ecstatic god<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThere springs a harmony of lyric bliss<\/span><\/p>\n

\nStriving to leave no heavenly joy unsung,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSuch was the life in that embodied Light.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe seemed the wideness of a boundless sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe seemed the passion of a sorrowless earth,<\/span><\/font>
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He seemed the burning of a world-wide sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

\nOf rapture and her cry to spirit song:<\/span><\/font>
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"0 human image of the deathless word,<\/font><\/p>\n

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How hast thou seen beyond the topaz walls<\/font><\/p>\n

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The gleaming sisters of the divine gate,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Summoned the genii of their wakeful sleep,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And under revelation’s arches forced<\/font><\/p>\n

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The carved thought-shrouded doors to swing apart,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Unlocked the avenues of spiritual sight<\/font><\/p>\n

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And taught<\/font>1<\/font><\/sup>
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To thy rapt soul that bore the golden key?<\/font><\/p>\n

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In thee the secret sight man’s blindness missed<\/font><\/p>\n

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Has opened its view past Time, my chariot course,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And death, my tunnel which I drive through life<\/font><\/p>\n

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To reach my unseen distances of bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I am the hushed search of the jealous gods<\/font><\/p>\n

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Pursuing my wisdom’s vast mysterious work<\/font><\/p>\n

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Seized in the thousand meeting ways of heaven.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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The unconquerable pilgrim soul of earth<\/font><\/p>\n

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Beneath the flaring torches of the stars.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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They who have looked on me, shall grieve no more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nOn the pale shores of conscious foaming straits<\/span><\/font>
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That flow beneath a grey tormented sky<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nPace near, but parted in the life of man;<\/span><\/font>
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One leans to earth, the other yearns to the skies:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Heaven in its rapture dreams of perfect earth,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nIdly divided by their vain conceits;<\/span><\/font>
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They are kept from their oneness by enchanted fears;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sundered mysteriously by miles of thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nWhile thinly nickering hesitates uncrossed<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nYet if thou wouldst abandon the vexed world<\/span><\/font>
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Careless of the dark moan of things below,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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Relinquishing thy charge of transient breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nUnder the cold gaze of the indifferent stars<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Absorbed in their self-ecstasy they dwell.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nO immortal, to felicity arise."<\/span><\/font>
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On Savitri listening in her tranquil heart<\/font><\/p>\n

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To the harmony of the ensnaring voice<\/font><\/p>\n

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A joy exceeding earth’s and heaven’s poured down,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Its confident felicity’s messenger<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

\nTempting his heart with the far lure of heaven,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Testing his strength with the close touch of hell,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nEven as I have shunned thy eternal Night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo me who turn not from thy terrestrial Way,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGive back the other self my nature asks,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Earth needs his beautiful spirit made by thee<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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Earth is the heroic spirit’s battlefield,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nThy servitudes on earth are greater, king,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThan all the glorious liberties of heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe heavens were once to me my natural home,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI too have wandered in star-jewelled groves,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPaced sun-gold pastures and moon-silver swards<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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I too have revelled in the fields of light<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

\nThe great and easy dances of the gods.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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A heavier tread is mine, a mightier touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nTaught by the sweetness and the pain of life<\/span><\/font>
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To bear the uneven strenuous beat that throbs<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Are there not still unnumbered chants to weave?<\/span><\/p>\n

\nO subtle-souled musician of the years,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Arise from the strain their first wild plaint divined<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd that discover which is yet unsung.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nI know that he can bring the Immortal down.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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A senseless whirlwind is the titan’s force<\/font><\/p>\n

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And without thee a snare the strength of gods.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Let not the inconscient gulf swallow man’s race<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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\n

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

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\n

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Give not to darkness and to death thy sun,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Achieve thy wisdom’s hidden firm decree<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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\n

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Her words failed lost in thought’s immensities<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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Which seized them at the limits of their cry<\/font><\/p>\n

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And hid their meaning in the distances<\/font><\/p>\n

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That stir to more than ever speech has won<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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From the Unthinkable, end of all our thought,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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And the Ineffable from whom all words come.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then with a smile august as noonday heavens<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\n

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Its thoughts burn in her sky like lonely stars;<\/font><\/p>\n

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In her heart there move celestial seekings soft<\/font><\/p>\n

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And beautiful like fluttering wings of birds,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visions of joy that she can never win<\/font><\/p>\n

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Traverse the fading mirror of her dreams.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Faint seeds of light and bliss bear sorrowful flowers,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Faint harmonies caught from a half-heard song<\/font>
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Fall swooning mid the wandering voices’ jar,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Foam from the tossing luminous seas where dwells<\/font><\/p>\n

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The beautiful and far delight of gods,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Raptures unknown, a miracled happiness<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Above her little finite steps she feels<\/font><\/p>\n

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Careless of knot or pause, worlds which weave out<\/font><\/p>\n

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A strange perfection beyond law and rule,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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An inexpressible rhythm of timeless beats,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The many-movemented heart-beats of the One,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Magic of the boundless harmonies of self,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Order of the freedom of the infinite,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The wonder-plastics of the Absolute.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

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

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

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Hers are but careless visits of the gods.<\/font><\/p>\n

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They are a Light that fails, a Word soon hushed<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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There are high glimpses, not the lasting sight.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A few can climb to an unperishing sun,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or live on the edges of the mystic moon<\/font><\/p>\n

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And channel to earth-mind the wizard ray.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The heroes and the demi-gods are few<\/font><\/p>\n

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To whom the close immortal voices speak<\/font><\/p>\n

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And to their acts the heavenly clan are near.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Few are the silences in which Truth is heard,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Unveiling the timeless utterance in her deeps;<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n

Few are the splendid moments of the seers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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The doors of light are sealed to common mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd earth’s needs nail to earth the human mass,<\/span><\/font>
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Only in an uplifting hour of stress<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMen answer to the touch of greater things:<\/span><\/font>
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Or, raised by some strong hand to breathe heaven-air,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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They joy in safe return to a friendly base,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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And greatness murdered, they accept their fall.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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The human average is their level pitch,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The perpetual order of the universe<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Into the glory of the Oversoul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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But the Inconscient lies at the world’s grey back<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd draws to its breast of Night and Death and Sleep.<\/span><\/font>
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Imprisoned in its dark and dumb abyss<\/font><\/p>\n

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A little consciousness it lets escape<\/font><\/p>\n

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But jealous of the growing light holds back<\/font><\/p>\n

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Close to the obscure edges of its cave<\/font><\/p>\n

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As if a fond ignorant mother kept her child<\/font><\/p>\n

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Tied to her apron strings of Nescience.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Inconscient could not read without man’s mind<\/font><\/p>\n

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The mystery of the world its sleep has made:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Man is its key to unlock a conscious door.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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It draws its giant circle round his thoughts,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIt shuts his heart to the supernal Light,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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His mind is closed between two firmaments.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe seeks through words and images the Truth,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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He cannot look on the face of the Unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All shall be done by the long act of Time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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Above the wash and surge of Time and Space,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDisengaging from the cosmic commonalty<\/span><\/font>
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By which all life is kin in grief and joy,<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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And burn alone in the eternal sky,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Inhabitant of a wide and endless calm.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nO Flame, withdraw into thy luminous self<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or else return to thy original might<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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Partner of my unhoured eternity,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBe one with the infinity of my power:<\/span><\/font>
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For thou art the World Mother and the Bride.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOut of the fruitless yearning of earth’s life,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOut of her feeble unconvincing dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRecovering wings that cross infinity<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nTo that thou canst uplift thy formless flight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy heart can rise from its unsatisfied beats<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd feel the immortal and spiritual joy<\/span><\/p>\n

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

\nLift up the fallen heart of love which flutters,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCast down desire’s abyss into the gulfs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFor ever rescued out of Nature’s shapes<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDiscover what the aimless cycles want,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nBreak into eternity thy mortal mould;<\/span><\/font>
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Melt, Lightning, into thy invisible flame.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

\nThen shalt thou know the Lover and the Loved,<\/span><\/font>
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Leaving the limits dividing him and thee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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"In vain thou temptst with solitary bliss<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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My soul and his indissolubly linked<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

\nTo bring God down to the world on earth we came;<\/span><\/font>
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To change the earthly life to life divine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI keep my will to save the world and man;<\/span><\/font>
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Even the charm of thy alluring voice,<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

\nIf thou and I are true, the world is true;<\/span><\/font>
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Although thou hide thyself behind thy works,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo be is not a senseless paradox;<\/span><\/font>
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Since God has made earth, earth must make in her God;<\/font><\/p>\n

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What hides within her breast she must reveal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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Let a greater being then arise from man,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The superhuman with the Eternal mate<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the Immortal shine through earthly forms.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Else were creation vain and this great world<\/font><\/p>\n

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

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But I have seen through the insentient mask;<\/font><\/p>\n

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I have felt a secret spirit stir in things<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCarrying the body of the growing God:<\/span><\/font>
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It looks through veiling forms at veilless truth,<\/font><\/p>\n

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It pushes back the curtain of the gods,<\/font><\/p>\n

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It climbs towards its own eternity."<\/font><\/p>\n

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But the god answered to the woman’s heart:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"0 living power of the incarnate Word,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAll that the Spirit has dreamed thou canst create:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thou art the force by which I made the worlds,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thou art my vision and my will and voice.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But knowledge too is thine, the world-plan thou knowest<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the tardy process of the pace of Time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the impetuous drive of thy heart of flame,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In thy passion to deliver man and earth,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Indignant at the impediments of Time<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the slow evolution’s sluggard steps,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lead not the spirit in an ignorant world<\/font><\/p>\n

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To dare too soon the adventure of the Light,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Pushing the bound and slumbering god in man<\/font>
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Awakened mid the ineffable silences<\/font><\/p>\n

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Into endless vistas of the unknown and unseen,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Across the last confines of the limiting Mind<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the Superconscient’s perilous border line<\/font><\/p>\n

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Into the danger of the Infinite.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But if thou wilt not wait for Time and God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Do then thy work and force thy will on Fate.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As I have taken from thee my load of night<\/font><\/p>\n

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And taken from thee my twilight’s doubts and dreams,<\/font><\/p>\n

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So now I take my light of utter Day.<\/font><\/p>\n

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These are my symbol kingdoms but not here<\/font><\/p>\n

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Can- the great choice be made that fixes fate<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or uttered the sanction of the Voice supreme.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Arise upon a ladder of greater worlds<\/font><\/p>\n

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To the infinity where no world can be.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But not in the wide air where a greater Life<\/font><\/p>\n

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Uplifts its mystery and its miracle,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And not on the luminous peaks of summit Mind,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or in the hold where subtle Matter’s spirit<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hides in its light of shimmering secrecies,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Can there be heard the Eternal’s firm command<\/font><\/p>\n

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That joins the head of destiny to its base.<\/font><\/p>\n

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These only are the mediating links; .<\/font><\/p>\n

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Not theirs is the originating sight<\/font><\/p>\n

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Nor the fulfilling act or last support<\/font><\/p>\n

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That bears perpetually the cosmic pile.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Two are the Powers that hold the ends of Time;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Spirit foresees. Matter unfolds its thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe dumb executor of God’s decrees,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOmitting no iota and no dot,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAgent unquestioning, inconscient, stark,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEvolving inevitably a charged content,<\/span><\/font>
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Intention of his force in time and space,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn animate beings and inanimate things<\/span><\/p>\n

\nImmutably it fulfils its ordered task.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIt cancels not a tittle of things done;<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unswerving from the oracular command<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIt alters not the steps of the Unseen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIf thou must indeed deliver man and earth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOn the spiritual heights, look down on life,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDiscover the truth of God and man and world;<\/span><\/font>
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Then do thy task knowing and seeing all.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAscend, O soul, into thy timeless self;<\/span><\/font>
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Choose destiny’s curve and stamp thy will on Time."<\/font><\/p>\n

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He ended and upon the falling sound<\/font><\/p>\n

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A power went forth that shook the founded spheres<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd loosed the stakes that hold the tents of form.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Absolved from vision’s grip and the folds of thought,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rapt from her sense like disappearing scenes<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the stupendous theatre of Space<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe heaven-worlds vanished in spiritual light.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A movement was abroad, a cry, a word,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Beginningless in its vast discovery,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Momentless in its unthinkable return:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Choired in calm seas she heard the eternal Thought<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rhythming itself abroad unutterably<\/font><\/p>\n

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In spaceless orbits and on timeless roads.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In an ineffable world she lived fulfilled.<\/font><\/p>\n

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An energy of the triune Infinite,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In a measureless Reality she dwelt,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A rapture and a being and a force,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A linked and myriad-motioned plenitude,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A virgin unity, a luminous spouse,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Housing a multitudinous embrace<\/font>
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To marry all in God’s immense delight,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bearing the eternity of every spirit,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bearing the burden of universal love,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A wonderful mother of unnumbered souls.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All things she knew, all things imagined or willed,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her ear was opened to ideal sound,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Shape the convention bound no more her sight,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A thousand doors of oneness was her heart,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A crypt and sanctuary of brooding light<\/font><\/p>\n

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Appeared, the last recess of things beyond.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then in its round the enormous fiat paused,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Silence gave back to the Unknowable<\/font><\/p>\n

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All it had given. Still was her listening thought.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The form of things had ceased within her soul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Invisible that perfect godhead now.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Around her some tremendous spirit lived,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mysterious flame around a melting pearl,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And in the phantom of abolished Space ,<\/font><\/p>\n

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There was a voice unheard by ears that cried:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Choose, spirit, thy supreme choice not given again,<\/font><\/p>\n

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For now from my highest being looks at thee<\/font><\/p>\n

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The nameless formless peace where all things rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

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In a happy vast sublime cessation know,\u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

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An immense extinction in eternity,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A point that disappears in the infinite,\u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

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Felicity of the extinguished flame,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Last sinking of a wave in a boundless sea,<\/font><\/p>\n

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End of the trouble of thy wandering thoughts,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Close of the journeying of thy pilgrim soul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Accept, O music, weariness of thy notes,<\/font><\/p>\n

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O stream, wide breaking of thy channel banks."<\/font><\/p>\n

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The moments fell into eternity.<\/font>
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But someone yearned within a bosom unknown.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd silently the woman’s heart replied:<\/span><\/font>
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"Thy peace, O Lord, a boon within to keep<\/font><\/p>\n

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Amid the roar and ruin of wild Time<\/font><\/p>\n

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For the magnificent soul of man on earth.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThy calm, O Lord, that bears thy hands of joy."<\/font><\/p>\n

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Limitless like ocean round a lonely isle<\/font><\/p>\n

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A second time the eternal cry arose:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Wide open are the ineffable gates in front.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy spirit leans down to break the knot of earth,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAmorous of oneness without thought or sign<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo cast down wall and fence, to strip heaven bare,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSee with the large eye of infinity,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nUnweave the stars and into silence pass."<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn an immense and world-destroying pause<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe heard a million creatures cry to her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThrough the tremendous stillness of her thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n

\nImmeasurably the woman’s nature spoke:<\/span><\/font>
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"Thy oneness. Lord, in many approaching hearts,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy sweet infinity of thy numberless souls."<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMightily retreating like a sea in ebb<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA third time swelled the great admonishing call:<\/span><\/font>
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"I spread abroad the refuge of my wings.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Out of its incommunicable deeps<\/font><\/p>\n

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My power looks forth of mightiest splendour, stilled<\/font><\/p>\n

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Into its majesty of sleep, withdrawn<\/font><\/p>\n

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Above the dreadful whirlings of the world."<\/font><\/p>\n

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A sob of things was answer to the voice,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And passionately the woman’s heart replied:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Thy energy. Lord, to seize on woman and man,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo take all things and creatures in their grief<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd gather them into a mother’s arms."<\/span><\/font>
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Solemn and distant like a seraph’s lyre<\/span><\/p>\n

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"I open the wide eye of solitude<\/font><\/p>\n

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To uncover the voiceless rapture of my bliss,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Where in a pure and exquisite hush it lies<\/font><\/p>\n

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Motionless in its slumber of ecstasy,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Resting from the sweet madness of the dance<\/font><\/p>\n

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Out of whose beat the throb of hearts was borne."<\/font><\/p>\n

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Breaking the silence with appeal and cry<\/font><\/p>\n

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A hymn of adoration tireless climbed,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A music beat of winged uniting souls,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then all the woman yearningly replied:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Thy embrace which rends the living knot of pain,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy joy, O Lord, in which all creatures breathe,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy magic flowing waters of deep love,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy sweetness give to me for earth and men."<\/span><\/font>
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Then after silence a still blissful cry<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBegan, such as arose from the Infinite<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhen the first whisperings of a strange delight<\/span><\/p>\n

\nImagined in its deep the joy to seek,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe passion to discover and to touch,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe enamoured laugh which rhymed the chanting worlds:<\/span><\/font>
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"O beautiful body of the incarnate Word,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thy thoughts are mine, I have spoken with thy voice.<\/font><\/p>\n

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My will is thine, what thou hast chosen I choose.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All thou hast asked I give to earth and men.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All shall be written out in destiny’s book<\/font><\/p>\n

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By my trustee of thought and plan and act,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The executor of my will, eternal Time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But since thou hast refused my maimless Calm<\/font><\/p>\n

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And turned from my termless peace in which is expunged<\/font>
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The visage of Space, and the shape of Time is lost,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And from happy extinction of thy separate self<\/font><\/p>\n

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In my uncompanioned lone eternity,\u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

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For not for thee the nameless worldless Nought.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Annihilation of thy living soul<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the end of thought and hope and life and love<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the blank measureless Unknowable,\u2014<\/font><\/p>\n

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Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will<\/font><\/p>\n

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I lay my hands upon thy soul of flame,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I lay my hands upon thy heart of love,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I yoke thee to my power of work in Time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Because thou hast obeyed my timeless will,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBecause thou hast chosen to share earth’s struggle and fate<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd leaned in pity over earth-bound men<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd turned aside to help and yearned to save,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI bind by thy heart’s passion thy heart to mine<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd lay my splendid yoke upon thy soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNow will I do in thee my marvellous works.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI will fasten thy nature with my cords of strength,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSubdue to my delight thy spirit’s limbs<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd make thee a vivid knot of all my bliss,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd build in thee my proud and crystal home.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy days shall be my shafts of power and light,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy nights my starry mysteries of joy<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all my clouds lie tangled in thy hair<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all my springtides marry in thy mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nO Sun-Word, thou shalt raise the earth-soul to Light<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd bring down God into the lives of men;<\/span><\/font>
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Earth shall be my work-chamber and my house,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy garden of life to plant a seed divine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhen all thy work in human time is done,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe mind of earth shall be a home of light,<\/span><\/font>
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The life of earth a tree growing towards heaven,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe body of earth a tabernacle of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAwakened from the mortal’s ignorance<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMen shall be lit with the Eternal’s ray<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the glory of my sun-lift in their thoughts<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd feel in their hearts the sweetness of my love<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd in their acts my Power’s miraculous drive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy will shall be the meaning of their days;<\/span><\/font>
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Living for me, by me, in me they shall live.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn the heart of my creation’s mystery<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI will enact the drama of thy soul,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInscribe the long romance of Thee and Me.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI will pursue thee across the century;<\/span><\/font>
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Thou shalt be hunted through the
\nworld by love,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNaked of ignorance’ protecting veil<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd without covert from my radiant gods<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNo shape shall screen thee from my divine desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNowhere shalt thou escape my living eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn the nudity of thy discovered self<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn a bare identity with all that is,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDisrobed of thy covering of humanity,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDivested of the dense veil of human thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMade one with every mind and body and heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMade one with all nature and with self and God,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSumming in thy single soul my mystic world<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI will possess in thee my universe,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe universe find all I am in thee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt bear all things that all things may change,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt fill all with my splendour and my bliss,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt meet all with my transmuting soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAssailed by my infinitudes above,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd quivering in immensities below,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pursued by me through my mind’s wall-less vast,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOceanic with the surges of my life,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA swimmer lost between two leaping seas<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBy my outer pains and inner sweetnesses<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFinding my joy in my opposite mysteries<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt respond to me from every nerve.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA vision shall compel thy coursing breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy heart shall drive thee on the wheel of works,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy mind shall urge thee through the flames of thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo meet me in the abyss and on the heights,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo feel me in the tempest and the calm<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd love me in the noble and the vile,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn beautiful things and terrible desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe pains of hell shall be to thee my kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe flowers of heaven persuade thee with my touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy fiercest masks shall my attractions bring.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMusic shall find thee in the voice of swords,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBeauty pursue thee through the core of flame.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt know me in the rolling of the spheres<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd cross me in the atoms of the whirl.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe wheeling forces of my universe<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShall cry to thee the summons of my name.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDelight shall drop down from my nectarous moon,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy fragrance seize thee in the jasmine’s snare,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy eye shall look upon thee from the sun.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMirror of Nature’s secret spirit made,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt reflect my hidden heart of joy,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt drink down my sweetness unalloyed<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn my pure lotus-cup of starry brim.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy dreadful hands laid on thy bosom shall force<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThy being bathed in fiercest longings’ streams.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThou shalt discover the one and quivering note<\/span><\/font>
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And cry, the harp of all my melodies,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd roll, my foaming wave in seas of love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEven my disasters’ clutch shall be to thee<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe ordeal of my rapture’s contrary shape:<\/span><\/font>
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In pain’s self shall smile on thee my secret face:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thou shalt bear my ruthless beauty unabridged<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAmid the world’s intolerable wrongs,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTrampled by the violent misdeeds of Time<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCry out to the ecstasy of my rapture’s touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll beings shall be to thy life my emissaries;<\/span><\/font>
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Drawn to me on the bosom of thy friend,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Compelled to meet me in thy enemy’s eyes,<\/font><\/p>\n

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My creatures shall demand me from thy heart.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thou shalt not shrink from any brother soul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thou shalt be attracted helplessly to all.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Men seeing thee shall feel my hands of joy,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In sorrow’s pangs feel steps of the world’s delight,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Their life experience its tumultuous shock<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the mutual craving of two opposites.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hearts touched by thy love shall answer to my call,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Discover the ancient music of the spheres<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the revealing accents of thy voice,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And nearer draw to me because thou art:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Enamoured of thy spirit’s loveliness<\/font><\/p>\n

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They shall embrace my body in thy soul,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hear in thy life the beauty of my laugh,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Know the thrilled bliss with which I made the worlds.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All that thou hast, shall be for other’s bliss,<\/font><\/p>\n

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All that thou art, shall to my hands belong.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I will pour delight from thee as from a jar,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I will whirl thee as my chariot through the ways,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I will use thee as my sword and as my lyre,<\/font>
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I will play on thee my
\nminstrelsies of thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd when thou art vibrant with all ecstasy,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd when thou livst one spirit with all things,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen will I spare thee not my living fires,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBut make thee a channel for my timeless force.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMy hidden presence led thee unknowing on<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFrom thy beginning in earth’s voiceless bosom<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThrough life and pain and time and will and death,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThrough outer shocks and inner silences<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAlong the mystic roads of Space and Time<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo the experience which all Nature hides.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWho hunts and seizes me, my captive grows:<\/span><\/font>
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This shalt thou henceforth learn from thy heart-beats.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For ever love, O beautiful slave of God!<\/font><\/p>\n

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O lasso of my rapture’s widening noose,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Become my cord of universal love.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The spirit ensnared by thee force to delight<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of creation’s oneness sweet and fathomless,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Compelled to embrace my myriad unities<\/font><\/p>\n

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And all my endless forms and divine souls.<\/font><\/p>\n

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O Mind, grow full of the eternal peace;<\/font><\/p>\n

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O Word, cry out the immortal litany: .<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBuilt is the golden tower, the flame-child born.<\/span><\/font>
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"Descend to life with him thy heart desires.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nO Satyavan, O luminous Savitri,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nI sent you forth of old beneath the stars,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA dual power of God in an ignorant world,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn a hedged creation shut from limitless self,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBringing down God to the insentient glow,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLifting earth-beings to immortality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn the world of my knowledge and my ignorance<\/span><\/font>
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Where God is unseen and only is heard a Name<\/font><\/p>\n

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And knowledge is trapped in the boundaries of mind<\/font><\/p>\n

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And life is hauled in the drag-net of desire<\/font><\/p>\n

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And Matter hides the soul from its own sight, <\/font>
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You are my Force at work to uplift earth’s fate,<\/font><\/p>\n

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My self that moves up the immense incline<\/font><\/p>\n

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Between the extremes of the spirit’s night and day.<\/font><\/p>\n

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He is my soul that climbs from nescient Night<\/font><\/p>\n

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Through life and mind and supernature’s Vast<\/font><\/p>\n

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To the supernal light of Timelessness<\/font><\/p>\n

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And my eternity hid in moving Time<\/font><\/p>\n

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And my boundlessness cut by the curve of Space.<\/font><\/p>\n

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It climbs to the greatness it has left behind<\/font><\/p>\n

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And to the beauty and joy from which it fell,<\/font><\/p>\n

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To the closeness and sweetness of all things divine,.<\/font><\/p>\n

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To light without bounds and life illimitable,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Taste of the depths of the Ineffable’s bliss,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Touch of the immortal and the infinite.<\/font><\/p>\n

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He is my soul that gropes out of the beast<\/font><\/p>\n

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To reach humanity’s heights of lucent ‘thought,  . . "<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the vicinity of Truth's sublime.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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He is the godhead growing in human lives<\/font><\/p>\n

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And in the body of earth-being’s forms,<\/font><\/p>\n

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He is the soul of man climbing to God<\/font><\/p>\n

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In Nature’s surge out of earth’s ignorance.<\/font><\/p>\n

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O Savitri, thou art my spirit’s Power,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The revealing voice of my immortal Word,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The face of Truth upon the roads of Time<\/font><\/p>\n

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Pointing to the souls of men the routes to God.<\/font><\/p>\n

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While the dim light from the veiled Spirit’s peak<\/font><\/p>\n

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Falls upon Matter’s stark inconscient sleep<\/font><\/p>\n

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And Mind in a half-light moves amid half-truths<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nYou shall be born into man’s dubious hours<\/font><\/p>\n

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In forms that hide the soul’s divinity<\/font><\/p>\n

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And show through veils of the earth’s doubting air<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMy glory breaking as through clouds a sun,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or burning like a rare and inward fire,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd with my nameless influence fill men’s lives.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet shall they look up as to peaks of God<\/font><\/p>\n

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And feel God like a circumambient air<\/font><\/p>\n

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And rest on God as on a motionless base.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet shall there glow on mind like a horned moon<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe spirit’s crescent splendour in pale skies<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nBut more there is concealed in God’s Beyond<\/font><\/p>\n

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That shall one day reveal its hidden face.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now mind is all and its uncertain ray,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mind is the leader of the body and life,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMind the thought-driven chariot of the soul<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nCarrying the luminous wanderer in the night<\/font><\/p>\n

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To vistas of a far uncertain dawn,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nTo the end of the Spirit’s fathomless desire,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nTo its dream of absolute truth and utter bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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There are greater destinies mind cannot surmise.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Fixed on the summit of the evolving Path<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe Traveller now treads in the Ignorance,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nUnaware of his next step, not knowing his goal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nMind is not all his tireless climb can reach,<\/font><\/p>\n

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There is a fire on the apex of the worlds,<\/font><\/p>\n

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There is a house of the Eternal’s Light.<\/font>
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\nThe spirit’s mightiness shall cast off its mask;<\/span><\/font>
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Its greatness shall be felt shaping the world’s course.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIt shall be seen in its own veilless beams,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA star rising from the Inconscient’s night,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA sun climbing to Supemature’s peak.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAbandoning the dubious Middle Way<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA few shall glimpse the miraculous Origin<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd some shall feel in you the secret Force<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd they shall turn to meet a nameless tread,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAdventurers into a mightier Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAscending out of the limiting breadths of mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThey shall discover the world’s huge design<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nYou shall reveal to them the hidden eternities,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe breath of infinitudes not yet revealed,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSome rapture of the bliss that made the world,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSome rush of the force of God’s omnipotence,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSome beam of the omniscient Mystery.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBut when the hour of the Divine draws near,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd God be born into the human clay<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn forms made ready by your human lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen shall the Truth supreme be given to men.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThere is a being beyond the being of mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAn Immeasurable cast into many forms,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA miracle of the multitudinous One.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThere is a consciousness mind cannot touch,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIts speech cannot utter nor its thought reveal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIt has no home on earth, no centre in man,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nYet is the source of all things thought and done,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe fount of the creation and its works.<\/span><\/font>
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It is the originer of all truth here,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The sun-orb of mind’s fragmentary rays,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Infinity’s heaven that spills the rain of God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Immense that calls to man to expand the Spirit,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A channel for the little he tastes of bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Some shall be made the glory’s receptacles<\/font><\/p>\n

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The great deliverers of earth-bound mind,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The high transfigurers of human clay,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The first-born of a new supernal race.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe incarnate dual Power shall open God’s door,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Eternal supermind touch earthly Time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The superman shall wake in mortal man<\/font><\/p>\n

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And manifest the hidden demi-god<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or grow into the God-Light and God-Force<\/font><\/p>\n

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Revealing the secret deity in the cave.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThen shall the earth be touched by the Supreme,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nHis bright unveiled Transcendence shall illumine<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThe mind and heart, and force the life and act<\/font><\/p>\n

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To interpret his inexpressible mystery<\/font><\/p>\n

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In a heavenly alphabet of Divinity’s signs.<\/font><\/p>\n

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His living cosmic spirit shall enring,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Annulling the decree of death and pain,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Erasing the formulas of the Ignorance,<\/font><\/p>\n

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With the deep meaning of beauty and life’s hid sense,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The being ready for immortality,<\/font><\/p>\n

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His regard crossing infinity’s mystic waves<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bring back to Nature her early joy to live,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The metred heart-beats of a lost delight,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The cry of a forgotten ecstasy,<\/font>
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The dance of the first world-creating Bliss.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Immanent shall be the witness God<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWatching on his many-petalled lotus-throne,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis actionless being and his silent might<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRuling earth-nature by eternity’s law,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA thinker waking the Inconscient’s world,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAn immobile centre of many infinitudes<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn his thousand-pillared temple by Time’s sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen shall the embodied being live as one<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWho is a thought, a will of the Divine,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA mask or robe of his divinity,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAn instrument and partner of his Force,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA point or line drawn in the infinite,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA manifest of the Imperishable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe supermind shall be his nature’s fount,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Eternal’s truth shall mould his thoughts and acts,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Eternal’s truth shall be his light and guide.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll then shall change, a magic order come<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOvertopping this mechanical universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA mightier race shall inhabit the mortal’s world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOn Nature’s luminous tops, on the Spirit’s ground,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe superman shall reign as king of life,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMake earth almost the mate and peer of heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd lead towards God and truth man’s ignorant heart<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd lift towards godhead his mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA power released from circumscribing bounds,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIts height pushed up beyond death’s hungry reach,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLife’s tops shall flame with the Immortal’s thoughts,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLight shall invade the darkness of its base.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen in the process of evolving Time<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll shall be drawn into a single plan,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA divine harmony shall be earth’s law,<\/span><\/font>
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Beauty and Joy remould her way to live:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even the body shall remember God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Nature shall draw back from mortality<\/font><\/p>\n

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And Spirit’s fires shall guide the earth’s blind force;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Knowledge shall bring into the aspirant Thought<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA high proximity to Truth and God.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe supermind shall claim the world for Light<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd thrill with love of God the enamoured heart<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd place Light’s crown on Nature’s lifted head<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd found Light’s reign on her unshaking base.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA greater truth than earth’s shall roof-in earth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd shed its sunlight on the roads of mind,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA power infallible shall lead the thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA seeing Puissance govern life and act,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn earthly hearts kindle the Immortal’s fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA soul shall wake in the Inconscient’s house;<\/span><\/font>
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The mind shall be God-vision’s tabernacle,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe body intuition’s instrument,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd life a channel for God’s visible power.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll earth shall be the Spirit’s manifest home,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHidden no more by the body and the life,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHidden no more by the mind’s ignorance;<\/span><\/font>
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An unerring Hand shall shape event and act.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit’s eyes shall look through Nature’s eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit’s force shall occupy Nature’s force.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThis world shall be God’s visible garden-house,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe earth shall be a field and camp of God,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMan shall forget consent to mortality<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd his embodied frail impermanence.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThis universe shall unseal its occult sense,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCreation’s process change its antique front,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAn ignorant evolution’s hierarchy<\/span><\/font>
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Release the Wisdom chained below its base.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit shall be the master of his world<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLurking no more in form’s obscurity<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd Nature shall reverse her action’s rule,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe outward world disclose the Truth it veils;<\/span><\/font>
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All things shall manifest the covert God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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All shall reveal the Spirit’s light and might<\/font><\/p>\n

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And move to its destiny of felicity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even should a hostile force cling to its reign<\/font><\/p>\n

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And claim its right’s perpetual sovereignty<\/font><\/p>\n

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And man refuse his high spiritual fate,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet shall the secret Truth in things prevail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For in the march of all-fulfilling Time<\/font><\/p>\n

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The hour must come of the Transcendent’s will:<\/font><\/p>\n

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All turns and winds towards his predestined ends<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn Nature’s fixed inevitable course<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDecreed since the beginning of the worlds<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn the deep essence of created things:<\/span><\/font>
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Even there shall come as a high crown of all<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe end of Death, the death of Ignorance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBut first high Truth must set her feet on earth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd man aspire to the Eternal’s light<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all his members feel the Spirit’s touch<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all his life obey an inner Force.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThis too shall be; for a new life shall come,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA body of the Superconscient’s truth,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA native field of Supernature’s mights:<\/span><\/font>
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It shall make earth’s nescient ground Truth’s colony,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMake even the Ignorance a transparent robe<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThrough which shall shine the brilliant limbs of Truth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd Truth shall be a sun on Nature’s head<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd Truth shall be the guide of Nature’s steps<\/span><\/font>
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\nWhen superman is born as Nature’s king<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHis presence shall transfigure Matter’s world:<\/span><\/font>
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He shall light up Truth’s fire in Nature’s night,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe shall lay upon the earth Truth’s greater law;<\/span><\/font>
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Man too shall turn towards the Spirit’s call.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Awake to his hidden possibility,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Awake to all that slept within his heart<\/font><\/p>\n

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And all that Nature meant when earth was formed<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the Spirit made this ignorant world his home,<\/font><\/p>\n

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He shall aspire to Truth and God and Bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Interpreter of a diviner law<\/font><\/p>\n

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And instrument of a supreme design<\/font><\/p>\n

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The higher kind shall lean to lift up man.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Man shall desire to climb to his own heights.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The truth above shall wake a nether truth;<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even the dumb earth become a sentient force.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit’s tops and Nature’s base shall draw<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNear to the secret of their separate truth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd know each other as one deity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit shall look out through Matter’s gaze<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd Matter shall reveal the Spirit’s face.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen man and superman shall be at one<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all the earth become a single life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEven the multitude shall hear the Voice<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd turn to commune with the Spirit within<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd strive to obey the high spiritual law:<\/span><\/font>
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This earth shall stir with impulses sublime,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHumanity awake to deepest self,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNature the hidden godhead recognise.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEven the many shall some answer make<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd bear the splendour of the Divine’s-rush<\/span><\/font>
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\nA heavenlier passion shall upheave men’s lives,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTheir mind shall share in the ineffable gleam,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTheir heart shall feel the ecstasy and the fire,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEarth’s bodies shall be conscious of a soul;<\/span><\/font>
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Mortality’s bond-slaves shall unloose their bonds,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMere men into spiritual beings grow<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd see awake the dumb divinity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIntuitive beams shall touch the nature’s peaks, :<\/span><\/font>
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A revelation stir the nature’s depths:<\/font><\/p>\n

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The Truth shall be the leader of their lives,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Truth shall dictate their thought and speech and act,<\/font><\/p>\n

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They shall feel themselves lifted nearer to the sky,<\/font><\/p>\n

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As if a little lower than the gods.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For knowledge shall pour down its radiant streams<\/font><\/p>\n

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And even darkened mind quiver with new life<\/font><\/p>\n

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And kindle and bum with the Ideal’s fire<\/font><\/p>\n

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And turn to escape from mortal ignorance.<\/font><\/p>\n

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The frontiers of the Ignorance shall recede,<\/font><\/p>\n

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More and more souls shall enter into light,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear<\/font><\/p>\n

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And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame<\/font><\/p>\n

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And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight<\/font><\/p>\n

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And human wills tune to the divine will,<\/font><\/p>\n

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These separate selves the Spirit’s oneness feel,<\/font><\/p>\n

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These senses of heavenly sense grow capable,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The flesh and nerves of a strange ethereal joy<\/font><\/p>\n

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A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell<\/font><\/p>\n

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And take the charge of breath and speech and act<\/font><\/p>\n

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And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nLighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;<\/span><\/font>
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A sudden bliss shall run through every limb<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd Nature with a mightier Presence fill.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThus shall the earth open to divinity<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd common natures feel the wide uplift,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIllumine common acts with the Spirit’s ray<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd meet the deity in common things.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNature shall live to manifest secret God,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe Spirit shall take up the human play,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThis earthly life become the life divine."<\/span><\/font>
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The measure of that subtle music ceased.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDown with a hurried swimming floating lapse<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThrough unseen worlds and bottomless spaces forced<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSank like a star the soul of Savitri.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAmidst a laughter of unearthly lyres<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe heard around her nameless voices cry<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTriumphing, an innumerable sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA choir of laughing winds to meet her came.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe bore the burden of infinity<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd felt the stir of all ethereal space.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPursuing her in her fall, implacably sweet,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA face was over her which seemed a youth’s,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSymbol of all the beauty eyes see not,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCrowned as with peacock plumes of gorgeous hue<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFraming a sapphire, whose heart-disturbing smile<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInsatiably attracted to delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nVoluptuous to the embraces of her soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nChanged in its shape, yet rapturously the same,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIt grew a woman’s dark and beautiful<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLike a mooned night with drifting star-gemmed clouds,<\/span><\/font>
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A shadowy glory and a stormy depth,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Turbulent in will and terrible in love.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Eyes in which Nature’s blind ecstatic life<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sprang from some spirit’s passionate content,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Missioned her to the whirling dance of earth.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Amidst the headlong rapture of her fall<\/font><\/p>\n

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Held like a bird in a child’s satisfied hands,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In an enamoured grasp her spirit strove<\/font><\/p>\n

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Admitting no release till Time should end,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And, as the fruit of the mysterious joy,<\/font><\/p>\n

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She kept within her strong embosoming soul<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like a flower hidden in the heart of spring<\/font><\/p>\n

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The soul of Satyavan drawn down by her<\/font><\/p>\n

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Inextricably in that mighty lapse.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Invisible heavens in a thronging flight<\/font><\/p>\n

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Soared past her as she fell. Then all the blind<\/font><\/p>\n

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And near attraction of the earth compelled .<\/font><\/p>\n

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Fearful rapidities of downward bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lost in the giddy proneness of that speed,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Whirled, sinking, overcome she disappeared<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like a leaf spinning from the tree of heaven,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In broad unconsciousness as in a pool;<\/font><\/p>\n

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A hospitable softness drew her in<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInto a wonder of miraculous depths,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAbove her closed a darkness of great wings<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd she was buried in a mother’s breast.<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then from a timeless plane that
\nwatches Time,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA Spirit gazed out upon destiny,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn its endless moment saw the ages pass.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll still was in a silence of the gods.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe prophet moment covered limitless space<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd cast into the heart of hurrying Time<\/span><\/font>
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A diamond light of the Eternal’s peace,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA crimson seed of God’s felicity;<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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A glance from the gaze fell of undying Love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA wonderful face looked out with deathless eyes;<\/span><\/font>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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A hand was seen drawing the golden bars<\/font><\/p>\n

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That guard the imperishable secrecies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A key turned in a mystic lock of Time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nBut where the silence of the gods had passed,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A greater harmony from the stillness born<\/font><\/p>\n

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Surprised with joy and sweetness yearning hearts,<\/font><\/p>\n

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An ecstasy and a laughter and a cry.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A power leaned down, a happiness found its home.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Over wide earth brooded the infinite bliss.<\/font><\/p>\n

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