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

\nEpilogue<\/i><\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nEPILOGUE<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTHE RETURN TO EARTH<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/font>
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\n<\/b>of abysmal trance her spirit woke.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lain on the earth-mother’s calm inconscient breast<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe saw the green-clad branches lean above<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGuarding her sleep with their enchanted life,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd overhead a blue-winged ecstasy<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFluttered from bough to bough with high-pitched call.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInto the magic secrecy of the woods<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPeering through an emerald lattice-window of leaves,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn indolent skies reclined, the thinning day<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTurned to its slow fall into evening’s peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe pressed the living body of Satyavan:<\/span><\/font>
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On her body’s wordless joy to be and breathe<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe bore the blissful burden of his head<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBetween her breasts’ warm labour of delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe waking gladness of her members felt<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe weight of heaven in his limbs, a touch<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSumming the whole felicity of things,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all her life was conscious of his life<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all her being rejoiced enfolding his.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe immense remoteness of her trance had passed;<\/span><\/font>
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Human she was once more, earth’s Savitri,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nYet felt in her illimitable change.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA power dwelt in her soul too great for earth,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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A bliss lived in her heart too large for heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLight too intense for thought and love too boundless<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFor earth’s emotions lit her skies of mind<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd spread through her deep and happy seas of soul.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll that is sacred in the world drew near<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo her divine passivity of mood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA marvellous voice of silence breathed its thoughts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAll things in time and space she had taken for hers,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn her they moved, by her they lived and were,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe whole wide world clung to her for delight,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCreated for her rapt embrace of love.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNow in her spaceless self released from bounds<\/span><\/p>\n

\nUnnumbered years seemed moments long drawn out,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe brilliant time-flakes of eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOutwingings of a bird from its bright home,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer earthly moms were radiant flights of joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBoundless she was, a form of infinity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAbsorbed no longer by the moment’s beat<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer spirit the unending future felt<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd lived with all the unbeginning past.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer life was a dawn’s victorious opening,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe past and unborn days had joined their dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOld vanished eves and far arriving noons<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHinted to her a vision of prescient hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSupine in musing bliss she lay awhile<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGiven to the wonder of a waking trance;<\/span><\/font>
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Half-risen then she sent her gaze around,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAs if to recover old sweet trivial threads,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOld happy thoughts, small treasured memories,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd weave them into one immortal day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nEver she held on the paradise of her breast<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer lover charmed into a fathomless sleep,<\/span><\/font>
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Lain like an infant spirit unaware<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lulled on the verge of two consenting worlds.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But soon she leaned down over her loved to call<\/font><\/p>\n

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His mind back to her with her travelling touch<\/font><\/p>\n

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On his closed eyelids; settled was her still look<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of strong delight, not yearning now, but large<\/font><\/p>\n

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With limitless joy or sovereign last content,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Pure, passionate with the passion of the gods.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Desire stirred not its wings; for all was made<\/font><\/p>\n

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An overarching of celestial rays<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like the absorbed control of sky on plain,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Heaven’s leaning down to embrace from all sides earth,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A quiet rapture, a vast security.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then sighing to her touch the soft-winged sleep<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rose hovering from his flower-like lids and flew<\/font><\/p>\n

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Murmurous away. Awake, he found her eyes<\/font><\/p>\n

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Waiting for his, and felt her hands, and saw<\/font><\/p>\n

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The earth his home given back to him once more<\/font><\/p>\n

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And her made his again, his passion’s all.<\/font><\/p>\n

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With his arms’ encircling hold around her locked,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A living knot to make possession close,<\/font><\/p>\n

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He murmured with hesitating lips her name,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And vaguely recollecting wonder cried,<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Whence hast thou brought me captive back, love-chained,<\/font><\/p>\n

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To thee and sun light’s walls, O golden beam<\/font><\/p>\n

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And casket of all sweetness, Savitri,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Godhead and woman, moonlight of my soul?<\/font><\/p>\n

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For surely I have travelled in strange worlds<\/font><\/p>\n

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By thee companioned, a pursuing spirit,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Together we have disdained the gates of night;<\/font><\/p>\n

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I have turned away from the celestial’s joy<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd heaven’s insufficient without thee.<\/span><\/font>
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Where now has passed that formidable Shape<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhich rose against us, the Spirit of the Void,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nClaiming the world for Death and Nothingness,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDenying God and Soul? Or was all a dream<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOr a vision seen ‘n a spiritual sleep,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA symbol of the oppositions of Time<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOr a mind-lit beacon of significance<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn some stress of darkness lighting on the Way<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOr guiding a swimmer through the straits of Death,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOr finding with the succour of its ray<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn a gully mid the crowded streets of Chance<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe soul that into the world-adventure came,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA scout and voyager from Eternity?"<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBut she replied, "Our parting was the dream,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWe are together, we live, O Satyavan.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLook round thee and behold, glad and unchanged<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOur home, this forest, with its thousand cries<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the whisper of the wind among the leaves<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd, through rifts in emerald scene, the evening sky,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nGod’s canopy of blue sheltering our lives,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the birds crying for heart’s happiness,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWinged poets of our solitary reign,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOur friends on earth where we are king and queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOnly our souls have left Death’s night behind<\/span><\/p>\n

\nChanged by a mighty dream’s reality,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIllumined by the light of symbol worlds<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the stupendous summit self of things,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd stood at Godhead’s gates limitless, free."<\/span><\/font>
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Then filled with the glory of their happiness<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThey rose and with safe clinging fingers locked<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHung on each other in a silent look.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBut he with a new wonder in his heart<\/span><\/font>
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And a new flame of worship in his eyes:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"What high change is in thee, O Savitri? Bright<\/font><\/p>\n

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Ever thou wast, a goddess still and pure,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet dearer to me by thy sweet human parts<\/font><\/p>\n

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Earth gave thee making thee yet more divine.<\/font><\/p>\n

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My adoration mastered, my desire<\/font><\/p>\n

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Bent down to make its subject, my daring clasped,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Claiming by body and soul my life’s estate,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rapture’s possession, love’s sweet property,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A statue of silence in my templed spirit,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A yearning godhead and a golden bride.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But now thou seemst almost too high and great<\/font><\/p>\n

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For mortal worship; Time lies below thy feet<\/font><\/p>\n

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And the whole world seems only a part of thee,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thy presence the hushed heaven I inhabit,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And thou lookst on me in the gaze of the stars,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet art the earthly keeper of my soul,<\/font><\/p>\n

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My life a whisper of thy dreaming thoughts,<\/font><\/p>\n

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My morns a gleaming of thy spirit’s wings,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And day and night are of thy beauty part.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Hast thou not taken my heart to treasure it<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the secure environment of thy breast?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Awakened from the silence and the sleep,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I have consented for thy sake to be.<\/font><\/p>\n

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By thee I have greatened my mortal arc of
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But now far heaven’s unmapped infinitudes<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thou hast brought me thy illimitable gift.<\/font><\/p>\n

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If to fill these thou lift thy sacred flight,<\/font><\/p>\n

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My human earth will still demand thy bliss:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Make still my life through thee a song of joy<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd all my silence wide and deep with thee."<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA heavenly queen consenting to his will,<\/span><\/font>
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She clasped his feet by her enshrining hair<\/font><\/p>\n

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Enveloped in a velvet cloak of love,<\/font><\/p>\n

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And answered softly like a murmuring lute:<\/font><\/p>\n

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"All now is changed, yet all is still the same.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lo, we have looked upon the face of God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Our life has opened with divinity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We have borne identity with the Supreme<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd known his meaning in our mortal lives.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nOur love has grown greater by that mighty touch<\/font><\/p>\n

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And learnt its heavenly significance,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet nothing is lost of mortal love’s delight.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nHeaven’s touch fulfils but cancels not our earth:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Our bodies need each other in the same last,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nStill in our breasts repeat heavenly secret rhythm<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOur human heart-beats passionately close.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nStill am I she who came to thee mid the murmur<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOf sunlit leaves upon this forest verge;<\/span><\/font>
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I am the Madran, I am Savitri.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All that I was before, I am to thee still,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Close comrade of thy thoughts and hopes and toils,<\/font><\/p>\n

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All happy contraries I would join for thee.<\/font><\/p>\n

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All sweet relations marry in our life,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I am thy kingdom even as thou art mine,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The sovereign and the slave of thy desire,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thy prone possessor, the sister of thy soul<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nAnd mother of thy wants; thou art my world,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The earth I need, the heaven my thoughts desire,<\/font><\/p>\n

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The world I inhabit and the god I adore.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Thy body is my body’s counterpart<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nWhose every limb my answering limb desires,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nWhose heart is key to all my heart-beats,\u2014this<\/font><\/p>\n

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I am and thou to me, O Satyavan.<\/font>
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Our wedded walk through life begins anew,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNo gladness lost, no depth of mortal joy;<\/span><\/font>
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Let us go through this new world that is the same.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For it is given back, but it is known,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A playing ground and dwelling house of God<\/font><\/p>\n

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Who hides himself in bird and beast and man<\/font><\/p>\n

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Sweetly to find himself again by love,<\/font><\/p>\n

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By oneness. His presence leads the rhythms of life<\/font><\/p>\n

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That seek for mutual joy in spite of pain.<\/font><\/p>\n

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We have each other found, 0 Satyavan,<\/font><\/p>\n

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In the great light of the discovered soul.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Let us go back, for eve is in the skies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now grief is dead and serene bliss remains<\/font><\/p>\n

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The heart of all our days for ever more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Lo, all these beings in this wonderful world!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Let us give joy to all, for joy is ours.<\/font><\/p>\n

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For not for ourselves alone our spirits came<\/font><\/p>\n

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Out of the veil of the Unmanifest,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Out of the deep immense Unknowable<\/font><\/p>\n

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Upon the ignorant breast of dubious earth<\/font><\/p>\n

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Into the ways of labouring seeking men,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Two fires that burn towards that parent Sun,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Two rays that travel to the original Light.<\/font><\/p>\n

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To lead man’s soul towards Truth and God we are
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To draw the chequered scheme of mortal life<\/font><\/p>\n

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Into some semblance of the Immortal’s plan,<\/font><\/p>\n

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To shape it closer to an image of God,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A little nearer to the Idea divine."<\/font><\/p>\n

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She closed her arms about his breast and head<\/font><\/p>\n

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As if to keep him on her bosom worn<\/font><\/p>\n

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For ever through the journeying of the years.<\/font><\/p>\n

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So for a while they stood entwined, their kiss<\/font>
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And passion-tranced embrace a meeting point<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn their commingling spirits, one for ever,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTwo-souled, two-bodied for the joy of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen hand in hand they left that solemn place<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPull now of mute unusual memories,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTo the green distance of their sylvan home<\/span><\/p>\n

\nReturning slowly through the forest’s heart:<\/span><\/font>
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Round them the afternoon to evening changed,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLight slipped down to the brightly sleeping verge,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the birds came back winging to their nests,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd day and night leaned to each other’s arms.<\/span><\/font>
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Now the dusk shadowy trees stood close around<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLike dreaming spirits and delaying night,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe grey-eyed pensive evening heard their steps,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd from all points the cries and movements came<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOf the four-footed wanderers of the night<\/span><\/p>\n

\nApproaching. Then a human rumour rose<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLong alien to their solitary days,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInvading the charmed wilderness of leaves,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOnce sacred to secluded loneliness,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWith violent breaking of its virgin sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThrough the screened dusk it deepened still and there neared<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFloating of many voices and the sound<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOf many feet till on their sight broke in,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAs if a coloured wave upon the eye,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe brilliant strenuous crowded life of man.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTopped by a flaring multitude of lights<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA great resplendent company arrived.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLife in its ordered tumult wavering came<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBringing its stream of unknown faces, thronged<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWith gold-fringed head-dresses, gold-broidered robes,<\/span><\/font>
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Glittering of ornaments, fluttering of hems,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHundreds of hands parted the forest-boughs,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHundreds of eyes searched the entangled glades.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCalm white-clad priests their grave-eyed sweetness brought,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nStrong warriors in their glorious armour shone,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe proud-hooved steeds came trampling through the wood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn front King Dyumathsena walked, no more<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBlind, faltering limbed, but his far-questing eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRestored to all their confidence in light<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTook seeingly this imaged outer world,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nFirmly he trod with monarch steps the soil.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBy him that queen and mother’s anxious face<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCame changed from its habitual burdened look<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhich in its drooping strength of tired toil<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHad borne the fallen life of those she loved.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer patient paleness wore a pensive glow<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLike evening’s subdued gaze of gathered light<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDeparting, which foresees sunrise her child.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe brilliance of her rich receding gleam<\/span><\/p>\n

\nA thoughtful prophecy of lyric dawn,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe lives awhile to muse upon that hope<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSinking in quiet splendours of her sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHer eyes were first to find her children’s forms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBut at the vision of the beautiful twain<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe air awoke perturbed with scaling cries,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd the swift parents hurrying to their child,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

\nTheir cause of life now who had given him breath,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

\nPossessed him with their arms. Then tenderly<\/span><\/p>\n

\nCried Dyumathsena chiding Satyavan:<\/span><\/font>
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"The fortunate gods have looked on me today,<\/font><\/p>\n

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A kingdom seeking came and heaven’s rays.<\/font><\/p>\n

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But where wast thou? Thou hast tormented gladness<\/font>
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With fear’s dull shadow, O my child, my life.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Or how could pleasure in her ways forget<\/font><\/p>\n

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That useless orbs without thee are my eyes<\/font><\/p>\n

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Which only for thy sake rejoice at light?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Not like thyself was this done, Savitri,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Who ledst not back thy husband to our arms,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Knowing with him beside me only is taste<\/font><\/p>\n

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In food and for his touch evening and mom<\/font><\/p>\n

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I live content with my remaining days."<\/font><\/p>\n

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But Satyavan replied with smiling lips,<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Lay all on her; she is the cause of all.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nWith her enchantments she has twined me round.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Behold, at noon leaving this house of clay<\/font><\/p>\n

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I wandered in far-off eternities,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yet still, a captive in her golden hands,<\/font><\/p>\n

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I tread your little hillock called green earth<\/font><\/p>\n

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And in the moments of your transient sun<\/font><\/p>\n

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Live glad among the busy works of men."<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then all eyes turned their wondering looks where stood<\/font><\/p>\n

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A deepening redder gold upon her cheeks,<\/font><\/p>\n

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With lowered lids the noble lovely child,<\/font><\/p>\n

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"What gleaming marvel of the earth or skies<\/font><\/p>\n

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Stands silently by human Satyavan<\/font><\/p>\n

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To mark a brilliance in the dusk of eve?<\/font><\/p>\n

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If this is she of whom the world has heard,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Wonder no more at any happy change.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Each easy miracle of felicity<\/font><\/p>\n

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Of her transmuting heart the alchemy is."<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nThen one spoke there who seemed a priest and sage,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\n"0 woman soul, what light, what power revealed,<\/font>
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Working the rapid marvels of this day,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Opens for us by thee a happier age?"<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her lashes fluttering upwards gathered in<\/font><\/p>\n

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To a vision which had scanned immortal things,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rejoicing, human forms for their delight.<\/font><\/p>\n

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They claimed for their deep childlike motherhood<\/font><\/p>\n

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The life of all these souls to be her life,<\/font><\/p>\n

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Then falling veiled the light. Low she replied,<\/font><\/p>\n

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"Awakened to the meaning of my heart<\/font><\/p>\n

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That to feel love and oneness is to live<\/font><\/p>\n

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And this the magic of our golden change<\/font><\/p>\n

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Is all the truth I know or seek, O sage."<\/font><\/p>\n

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Wondering at her and her too luminous words<\/font><\/p>\n

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Westward they turned in the fast gathering night.<\/font><\/p>\n

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From the entangling verges freed they came<\/span><\/p>\n

\nInto a dimness of the sleeping earth<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd travelled through her faint and slumbering plains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMurmur and movement and the tread of men<\/span><\/p>\n

\nBroke the night’s solitude. The neigh of steeds<\/span><\/p>\n

\nRose from the indistinct and voiceful sea<\/span><\/p>\n

\nOf life and all along its marchings swelled<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe rhyme of hooves, the chariot’s homeward voice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDrawn by white manes upon a high-roofed car<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn flare of the unsteady torches went<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWith linked hands Satyavan and Savitri,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHearing a marriage march and nuptial hymn,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWhere waited them the many-voiced human world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nNumberless the stars swam on their shadowy field<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDescribing in the gloom the ways of light.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThen while they skirted yet the southward verge,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLost in the halo of her musing brows<\/span><\/font>
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Night, splendid with the moon dreaming in heaven<\/span><\/p>\n

\nIn silver peace, possessed her luminous reign.<\/span><\/p>\n

\nShe brooded through her stillness on a thought<\/span><\/p>\n

\nDeep-guarded by her mystic folds of light,<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAnd in her bosom nursed a greater dawn.<\/span><\/font>
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THE END<\/font><\/p>\n

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