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\nCanto Nine<\/i> <\/p>\n

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\nThe <\/font> <\/span>
\nParadise<\/font><\/span> of
\nthe Life-Gods<\/font><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Around him shone a great felicitous Day.<\/p>\n

A lustre of some rapturous Infinite,<\/p>\n

It held in the splendour of its golden laugh<\/p>\n

Regions of the heart’s happiness set free,<\/p>\n

Intoxicated with the wine of God,<\/p>\n

Immersed in light, perpetually divine.<\/p>\n

A favourite and intimate of the Gods<\/p>\n

Obeying the divine command to joy,<\/p>\n

It was the sovereign of its own delight<\/p>\n

And master of the kingdoms of its force.<\/p>\n

Assured of the bliss for which all forms were made,<\/p>\n

Unmoved by fear and grief and the shocks of Fate<\/p>\n

And unalarmed by the breath of fleeting Time<\/p>\n

And unbesieged by adverse circumstance,<\/p>\n

It breathed in a sweet secure unguarded ease<\/p>\n

Free from our body’s frailty inviting death,<\/p>\n

Far from our danger zone of stumbling Will.<\/p>\n

It needed not to curb its passionate beats;<\/p>\n

Thrilled by the clasp of the warm satisfied sense<\/p>\n

And the swift wonder-rush and flame and cry<\/p>\n

Of the life-impulse’s red magnificent race,<\/p>\n

It lived in a jewel-rhythm of the laughter of God<\/p>\n

And lay on the breast of universal love.<\/p>\n

Immune the unfettered Spirit of Delight<\/p>\n

Pastured his gleaming sun-herds and moon-flocks<\/p>\n

Along the lyric speed of griefless streams<\/p>\n

In fragrance of the unearthly asphodel.<\/p>\n

A silence of felicity wrapped the heavens,<\/p>\n

A ceaseless radiance smiled upon the heights;<\/p>\n

A murmur of inarticulate ravishment<\/p>\n

Trembled in the winds and touched the enchanted soil; <\/p>\n

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Incessant in the arms of ecstasy<\/p>\n

Repeating its sweet involuntary note<\/p>\n

A sob of rapture flowed along the hours.<\/p>\n

Advancing under an arch of glory and peace,<\/p>\n

Traveller on plateau and on musing ridge,<\/p>\n

As one who sees in the World-Magician’s glass<\/p>\n

A miracled imagery of soul-scapes flee<\/p>\n

He traversed scenes of an immortal joy<\/p>\n

And gazed into abysms of beauty and bliss.<\/p>\n

Around him was a light of conscious suns<\/p>\n

And a brooding gladness of great symbol things;<\/p>\n

To meet him crowded plains of brilliant calm,<\/p>\n

Mountains and violet valleys of the Blest,<\/p>\n

Deep glens of joy and crooning waterfalls<\/p>\n

And woods of quivering purple solitude;<\/p>\n

Below him lay like gleaming jewelled thoughts<\/p>\n

Rapt dreaming cities of Gandharva kings.<\/p>\n

Across the vibrant secrecies of Space<\/p>\n

A dim and happy music sweetly stole,<\/p>\n

Smitten by unseen hands he heard heart-close<\/p>\n

The harp’s cry of the heavenly minstrels pass,<\/p>\n

And voices of unearthly melody<\/p>\n

Chanted the glory of eternal love<\/p>\n

In the white-blue moonbeam air of Paradise.<\/p>\n

A summit and core of all that marvellous world,<\/p>\n

Apart stood high Elysian nameless hills,<\/p>\n

Burning like sunsets in a trance of eve.<\/p>\n

As if to some new unsearched profundity,<\/p>\n

Into a joyful stillness plunged their base;<\/p>\n

Their slopes through a hurry of laughter and voices sank,<\/p>\n

Crossed by a throng of singing rivulets,<\/p>\n

Adoring blue heaven with their happy hymn,<\/p>\n

Down into woods of shadowy secrecy:<\/p>\n

Lifted into wide voiceless mystery<\/p>\n

Their peaks climbed towards a greatness beyond life.<\/p>\n

The shining Edens of the vital gods <\/p>\n

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Received him in their deathless harmonies.<\/p>\n

All things were perfect there that flower in Time;<\/p>\n

Beauty was there creation’s native mould,<\/p>\n

Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity.<\/p>\n

There Love fulfilled her gold and roseate dreams<\/p>\n

And Strength her crowned and mighty reveries;<\/p>\n

Desire climbed up, a swift omnipotent flame,<\/p>\n

And Pleasure had the stature of the gods;<\/p>\n

Dream walked along the highway of the stars;<\/p>\n

Sweet common things turned into miracles:<\/p>\n

Overtaken by the spirit’s sudden spell,<\/p>\n

Smitten by a divine passion’s alchemy,<\/p>\n

Pain’s self compelled transformed to potent joy<\/p>\n

Curing the antithesis
\nbetween heaven and hell.<\/p>\n

All life’s high visions are embodied there,<\/p>\n

Her wandering hopes achieved, her aureate combs<\/p>\n

Caught by the honey-eater’s darting tongue,<\/p>\n

Her burning guesses changed to ecstasied truths,<\/p>\n

Her mighty pantings stilled in deathless calm<\/p>\n

And liberated her immense desires.<\/p>\n

In that Paradise of perfect heart and sense<\/p>\n

No lower note could break the endless charm<\/p>\n

Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate;<\/p>\n

Her steps are sure of their intuitive fall.<\/p>\n

After the anguish of the soul’s long strife<\/p>\n

At length were found calm and celestial rest<\/p>\n

And, lapped in a magic flood of sorrowless hours,<\/p>\n

Healed were his warrior nature’s wounded limbs<\/p>\n

In the encircling arms of Energies<\/p>\n

That brooked no stain and feared not their own bliss.<\/p>\n

In scenes forbidden to our pallid sense<\/p>\n

Amid miraculous scents and wonder-hues<\/p>\n

He met the forms that divinise the sight,<\/p>\n

To music that can immortalise the mind<\/p>\n

And make the heart wide as infinity<\/p>\n

Listened, and captured the inaudible <\/p>\n

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Cadences that awake the occult ear:<\/p>\n

Out of the ineffable hush it hears them come<\/p>\n

Trembling with the beauty of a wordless speech,<\/p>\n

And thoughts too great and deep to find a voice,<\/p>\n

Thoughts whose desire new-makes the universe.<\/p>\n

A scale of sense that climbed with fiery feet<\/p>\n

To heights of unimagined happiness,<\/p>\n

Recast his being’s aura in joy-glow,<\/p>\n

His body glimmered like a skyey shell;<\/p>\n

His gates to the world were swept with seas of light.<\/p>\n

His earth, dowered with celestial competence,<\/p>\n

Harboured a power that needed now no more<\/p>\n

To cross the closed customs-line of mind and flesh<\/p>\n

And smuggle godhead into humanity.<\/p>\n

It shrank no more from the supreme demand<\/p>\n

Of an untired capacity for bliss,<\/p>\n

A might that could explore its own infinite<\/p>\n

And beauty and passion and the depth’s reply<\/p>\n

Nor feared the swoon of glad identity<\/p>\n

Where spirit and flesh in inner ecstasy join<\/p>\n

Annulling the quarrel between self and shape.<\/p>\n

It drew from sight and sound spiritual power,<\/p>\n

Made sense a road to reach the intangible:<\/p>\n

It thrilled with the supernal influences<\/p>\n

That build the substance of life’s deeper soul.<\/p>\n

Earth-nature stood reborn, comrade of heaven.<\/p>\n

A fit companion of the timeless Kings,<\/p>\n

Equalled with the godheads of the living Suns,<\/p>\n

He mixed in the radiant pastimes of the Unborn,<\/p>\n

Heard whispers of the Player never seen<\/p>\n

And listened to his voice that steals the heart<\/p>\n

And draws it to the breast of God’s desire,<\/p>\n

And felt its honey of felicity<\/p>\n

Flow through his veins like the rivers of Paradise,<\/p>\n

Made body a nectar-cup of the Absolute.<\/p>\n

In sudden moments of revealing flame, <\/p>\n

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In passionate responses half-unveiled<\/p>\n

He reached the rim of ecstasies unknown;<\/p>\n

A touch supreme surprised his hurrying heart,<\/p>\n

The clasp was remembered of the Wonderful,<\/p>\n

And hints leaped down of white beatitudes.<\/p>\n

Eternity drew close disguised as Love<\/p>\n

And laid its hand upon the body of Time.<\/p>\n

A little gift comes from the Immensitudes,<\/p>\n

But measureless to life its gain of joy;<\/p>\n

All the untold Beyond is mirrored there.<\/p>\n

A giant drop of the Bliss unknowable<\/p>\n

Overwhelmed his limbs and round his soul became<\/p>\n

A fiery ocean of
\nfelicity:<\/font><\/p>\n

He foundered drowned in sweet and burning vasts:<\/p>\n

The dire delight that could shatter mortal flesh,<\/p>\n

The rapture that the gods sustain he bore.<\/p>\n

Immortal pleasure cleansed him in its waves<\/p>\n

And turned his strength into undying power.<\/p>\n

Immortality captured Time and carried Life.<\/p>\n

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End of Canto Nine <\/p>\n

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