{"id":509,"date":"2013-07-13T01:28:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=509"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:28:28","slug":"03-book-1-canto-02-the-issue-vol-28-savitri-volume-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/28-savitri-volume-28\/03-book-1-canto-02-the-issue-vol-28-savitri-volume-28","title":{"rendered":"-03_Book 1 Canto 02 The Issue.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"24%\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<div class=\"Section1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\"><i>Canto Two<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">\n<span><font size=\"4\">The Issue<\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Awhile, withdrawn in secret fields of thought,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her mind moved in a many-imaged past<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That lived again and saw its end approach:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Dying, it lived imperishably in her;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Transient and vanishing from transient eyes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Invisible, a fateful ghost of self,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">It bore the future on its phantom breast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Along the fleeting event&#8217;s far-backward trail<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Regressed the stream of the insistent hours,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And on the bank of the mysterious flood<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Peopled with well-loved forms now seen no more<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the subtle images of things that were,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her witness spirit stood reviewing Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All that she once had hoped and dreamed and been,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Flew past her eagle-winged through memory&#8217;s skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">As in a many-hued flaming inner dawn,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her life&#8217;s broad highways and its sweet bypaths<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Lay mapped to her sun-clear recording view,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">From the bright country of her childhood&#8217;s days<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the blue mountains of her soaring youth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the paradise groves and peacock wings of Love<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To joy clutched under the silent shadow of doom<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In a last turn where heaven raced with hell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Twelve passionate months led in a day of fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An absolute supernatural darkness falls<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">On man sometimes when he draws near to God:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An hour comes when fail all Nature&#8217;s means;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Forced out from the protecting Ignorance<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And flung back on his naked primal need,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">He at length must cast from him his surface soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And be the ungarbed entity within:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 11<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That hour had fallen now on Savitri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A point she had reached where life must be in vain<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or, in her unborn element awake,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her will must cancel her body&#8217;s destiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">For only the unborn spirit&#8217;s timeless power<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Can lift the yoke imposed by birth in<br \/>\ntime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Only the Self that builds this figure of self<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Can rase the fixed interminable line<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That joins these changing names, these numberless lives,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">These new oblivious personalities<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And keeps still lurking in our conscious acts<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The trail of old forgotten thoughts and deeds,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Disown the legacy of our buried selves,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The burdensome heirship to our vanished forms<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Accepted blindly by the body and soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An episode in an unremembered tale,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Its beginning lost, its motive and plot concealed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A once living story has prepared and made<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Our present fate, child of past energies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The fixity of the cosmic sequences<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Fastened with hidden inevitable links<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She must disrupt, dislodge by her soul&#8217;s force<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her past, a block on the<br \/>\nimmortal&#8217;s road,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Make a rased ground and shape anew her fate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A colloquy of the original Gods<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Meeting upon the borders of the unknown,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her soul&#8217;s debate with embodied Nothingness<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Must be wrestled out on a dangerous dim background:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her being must confront its formless Cause,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Against the universe weigh its single self.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">On the bare peak where Self is alone with Nought<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And life has no sense and love no place to stand,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She must plead her case upon extinction&#8217;s verge,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In the world&#8217;s death-cave uphold life&#8217;s helpless claim<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And vindicate her right to be and love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Altered must be Nature&#8217;s harsh economy;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 12<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Acquittance she must win from her past&#8217;s bond,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An old account of suffering exhaust,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Strike out from Time the soul&#8217;s long compound debt<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the heavy servitudes of the Karmic Gods,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The slow revenge of unforgiving Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the deep need of universal pain<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And hard sacrifice and tragic consequence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Out of a timeless barrier she must break,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Penetrate with her thinking depths the Void&#8217;s monstrous<br \/>\nhush,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Look into the lonely eyes of immortal Death<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And with her nude spirit measure the Infinite&#8217;s night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The great and dolorous moment now was close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A mailed battalion marching to its doom,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The last long days went by with heavy tramp,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Long but too soon to pass, too near the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Alone amid the many faces loved,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Aware among unknowing happy hearts,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her armoured spirit kept watch upon the hours<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Listening for a foreseen tremendous step<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In the closed beauty of the inhuman wilds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A combatant in silent dreadful lists,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The world unknowing, for the world she stood:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">No helper had she save the Strength within;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">There was no witness of terrestrial eyes;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The Gods above and Nature sole below<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Were the spectators of that mighty strife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Around her were the austere sky-pointing hills,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the green murmurous broad deep-thoughted woods<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Muttered incessantly their muffled spell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A dense magnificent coloured self-wrapped life<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Draped in the leaves&#8217; vivid emerald monotone<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And set with chequered sunbeams and blithe flowers<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Immured her destiny&#8217;s secluded scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">There had she grown to the stature of her spirit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The genius of titanic silences<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Steeping her soul in its wide loneliness&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 13<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Had shown to her her self&#8217;s bare reality<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And mated her with her environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Its solitude greatened her human hours<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">With a background of the eternal and unique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A force of spare direct necessity<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Reduced the heavy framework of man&#8217;s days<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And his overburdening mass of outward needs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To a first thin strip of simple animal wants,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the mighty wideness of the primitive earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the brooding multitude of patient trees<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the musing sapphire leisure of the sky<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the solemn weight of the slowly passing months<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Had left in her deep room for thought and God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">There was her drama&#8217;s radiant prologue lived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A spot for the eternal&#8217;s tread on earth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Set in the cloistral yearning of the woods<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And watched by the aspiration of the peaks<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Appeared through an aureate opening in Time<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where stillness listening felt the unspoken word<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the hours forgot to pass towards grief and change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Here with the suddenness divine advents have,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Repeating the marvel of the first descent,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Changing to rapture the dull earthly round,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Love came to her hiding the shadow, Death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Well might he find in her his perfect shrine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Since first the earth-being&#8217;s heavenward growth began,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Through all the long ordeal of the race,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Never a rarer creature bore his shaft,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That burning test of the godhead in our parts,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A lightning from the heights on our abyss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All in her pointed to a nobler kind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Near to earth&#8217;s wideness, intimate with heaven,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Voyaging through worlds of splendour and of calm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Overflew the ways of Thought to unborn things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Ardent was her self-poised unstumbling will;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 14<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her mind, a sea of white sincerity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Passionate in flow, had not one turbid wave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">As in a mystic and dynamic dance<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A priestess of immaculate ecstasies<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Inspired and ruled from Truth&#8217;s revealing vault<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Moves in some prophet cavern of the gods,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A heart of silence in the hands of joy<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Inhabited with rich creative beats<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A body like a parable of dawn<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That seemed a niche for veiled divinity<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or golden temple door to things beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Immortal rhythms swayed in her time-born steps;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Poured a supernal beauty on men&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A wide self-giving was her native act;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A magnanimity as of sea or sky<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Enveloped with its greatness all that came<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And gave a sense as of a greatened world:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her kindly care was a sweet temperate sun,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her high passion a blue heaven&#8217;s equipoise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">As might a soul fly like a hunted bird,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Escaping with tired wings from a world of storms,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And a quiet reach like a remembered breast,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In a haven of safety and splendid soft repose<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">One could drink life back in streams of honey-fire,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Recover the lost habit of happiness,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Feel her bright nature&#8217;s glorious ambiance,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And preen joy in her warmth and colour&#8217;s rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A deep of compassion, a hushed sanctuary,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her inward help unbarred a gate in heaven;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Love in her was wider than the universe,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The whole world could take refuge in her single heart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The great unsatisfied godhead here could dwell:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Vacant of the dwarf<br \/>\nself&#8217;s imprisoned air<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her mood could harbour his sublimer breath&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 15<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Spiritual that can make all things divine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">For even her gulfs were secrecies of light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At once she was the stillness and the word,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A continent of self-diffusing peace,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An ocean of untrembling<br \/>\nvirgin fire<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The strength, the silence of the gods were hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In her he found a vastness like his own,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">His high warm subtle ether he refound<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And moved in her as in his natural home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In her he met his own eternity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Till then no mournful line had barred this ray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">On the frail breast of this precarious earth,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Since her orbed sight in its breath-fastened house,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Opening in sympathy with happier stars<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where life is not exposed to sorrowful change,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Remembered beauty death-claimed lids ignore<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And wondered at this world of fragile forms<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Carried on canvas-strips of shimmering Time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The impunity of unborn Mights was hers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Although she leaned to bear the human load,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her walk kept still the measure of the gods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Earth&#8217;s breath had failed to stain that brilliant glass:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Unsmeared with the dust of our mortal atmosphere<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">It still reflected heaven&#8217;s spiritual joy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Almost they saw who lived within her light<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her playmate in the sempiternal spheres<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Descended from its unattainable realms<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In her attracting advent&#8217;s luminous wake,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The white-fire dragon bird of endless bliss<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Drifting with burning wings above her days:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Heaven&#8217;s tranquil shield guarded the missioned child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A glowing orbit was her early term,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Years like gold raiment of the gods that pass;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her youth sat throned in calm felicity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But joy cannot endure<br \/>\nuntil the end:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 16<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">There is a darkness in terrestrial things<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That will not suffer long too glad a note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">On her too closed the inescapable Hand:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The armed Immortal bore the snare of Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">One dealt with her who meets the burdened great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Assigner of the ordeal and the path<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Who chooses in this holocaust of the soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Death, fall and sorrow as the spirit&#8217;s goads,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The dubious godhead with his torch of pain<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Lit up the chasm of the unfinished world<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And called her to fill with her vast self the abyss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">August and pitiless in his calm outlook,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Heightening the Eternal&#8217;s dreadful strategy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">He measured the difficulty with the might<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And dug more deep the gulf that all must cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Assailing her divinest elements,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">He made her heart kin to the striving human heart<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And forced her strength to its appointed road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">For this she had accepted mortal breath;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To wrestle with the Shadow she had come<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And must confront the riddle of man&#8217;s birth<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And life&#8217;s brief struggle in dumb Matter&#8217;s night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Whether to bear with Ignorance and<br \/>\nDeath<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or hew the ways of Immortality,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To win or lose the godlike game for man,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Was her soul&#8217;s issue thrown with Destiny&#8217;s dice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But not to submit and suffer was she born;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To lead, to deliver was her glorious part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Here was no fabric of terrestrial make<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Fit for a day&#8217;s use by busy careless Powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An image fluttering on the screen of<br \/>\nfate<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Half-animated for a passing show,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or a castaway on the ocean<br \/>\n of Desire<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Flung to the eddies in a ruthless sport<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And tossed along the gulfs of Circumstance,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A creature born to bend beneath the yoke,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 17<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A chattel and a plaything of Time&#8217;s lords,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or one more pawn who comes destined to be pushed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">One slow move forward on a measureless board<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In the chess-play of the earth-soul with Doom,\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Such is the human figure drawn by Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A conscious frame was here, a self-born Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In this enigma of the dusk of God,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">This slow and strange uneasy compromise<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Of limiting Nature with a limitless Soul,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Where all must move between an ordered Chance<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And an uncaring blind Necessity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Too high the fire spiritual dare not blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">If once it met the intense original Flame,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An answering touch might shatter all measures made<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And earth sink down with the weight of the Infinite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A gaol is this<br \/>\nimmense material world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Across each road stands armed a stone-eyed<br \/>\nlaw,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At every gate the huge dim sentinels pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A grey tribunal of the Ignorance,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An Inquisition of the priests of Night<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In judgment sit on the adventurer soul,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the dual tables and the Karmic norm<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Restrain the Titan in us and the God:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Pain with its lash, joy with its silver bribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Guard the Wheel&#8217;s<br \/>\ncircling immobility,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A bond is put on the high climbing mind,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A seal on the too large wide-open heart;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Death stays the journeying discoverer, Life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Thus is the throne of the Inconscient safe<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">While the tardy coilings of the aeons pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the Animal browses in the sacred fence<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And the gold Hawk can cross the skies no more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But one stood up and lit the limitless flame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Arraigned by the dark Power that hates all bliss<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In the dire court where life must pay for joy,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Sentenced by the mechanic justicer&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 18<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To the afflicting penalty of man&#8217;s hopes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her head she bowed not to the stark decree<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Baring her helpless heart to destiny&#8217;s stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">So bows and must the mind-born will in man<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Obedient to the statutes fixed of old,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Admitting without appeal the nether gods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In her the superhuman cast its seed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Inapt to fold its mighty wings of dream<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her spirit refused to hug the common soil,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or, finding all life&#8217;s golden meanings robbed,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Compound with earth, struck from the starry list,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or quench with black despair the God-given light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Accustomed to the eternal and the true,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her being conscious of its divine founts<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Asked not from mortal frailty pain&#8217;s relief,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Patched not with failure bargain or compromise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A work she had to do,<br \/>\na word to speak;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Writing the unfinished story of her soul<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In thoughts and actions graved in Nature&#8217;s book,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She accepted not to close the luminous page,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Cancel her commerce with eternity,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or set a signature of weak assent<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To the brute balance of the world&#8217;s exchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A force in her that toiled since earth was made,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Accomplishing in life the great world-plan,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Pursuing after death immortal aims,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Repugned to admit frustration&#8217;s barren role,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Forfeit the meaning of her birth in Time,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Obey the government of the casual fact<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or yield her high destiny up to passing Chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In her own self she found her high recourse;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She matched with the iron law her sovereign right:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her single will opposed the cosmic rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To stay the wheels of Doom this greatness rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">At the Unseen&#8217;s knock upon<br \/>\nthe hidden gates<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her strength made greater by the lightning&#8217;s touch&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 19<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Awoke from slumber in her heart&#8217;s recess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">It bore the stroke of That which kills and saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Across the awful march no eye can see,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Barring its dreadful route no will can change,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">She faced the engines of the universe;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A heart stood in the way of the driving wheels:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Its giant workings paused in front of a mind,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Its stark conventions met the flame of a soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A magic leverage suddenly is caught<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">That moves the veiled Ineffable&#8217;s timeless will:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A prayer, a master act, a king idea<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Can link man&#8217;s strength to a transcendent Force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Then miracle is made the common rule,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">One mighty deed can change the course of things;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A lonely thought becomes omnipotent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">All now seems Nature&#8217;s massed machinery;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An endless servitude to material rule<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And long determination&#8217;s rigid chain,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her firm and changeless habits aping Law,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Her empire of unconscious deft device<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Annul the claim of man&#8217;s free human will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">He too is a machine amid machines;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A piston brain pumps out the shapes of thought,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A beating heart cuts out emotion&#8217;s modes;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">An insentient energy fabricates a soul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or the figure of the world reveals the signs<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Of a tied Chance repeating her old steps<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">In circles around Matter&#8217;s binding-posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A random series of inept events<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">To which reason lends illusive sense, is here,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or the empiric Life&#8217;s instinctive search,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Or a vast ignorant mind&#8217;s colossal work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">But wisdom comes, and<br \/>\nvision grows within;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Then Nature&#8217;s instrument crowns himself her king;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">He feels his witnessing self and conscious power;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">His soul steps back and sees the Light supreme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Page \u2013 20<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: blue\"><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\">\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A Godhead stands behind the brute machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">This truth broke in in a triumph of fire;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A victory was won for God in man,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The deity revealed its hidden face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">The great World-Mother now in her arose:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A living choice reversed fate&#8217;s cold dead turn,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Affirmed the spirit&#8217;s tread on Circumstance,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Pressed back the senseless dire revolving Wheel<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And stopped the mute march of Necessity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Empowered to force the door denied and closed<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">Smote from Death&#8217;s visage its dumb absolute<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">And burst the bounds of consciousness and Time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;line-height: 150%\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0pt;text-align: center;line-height: 150%\" align=\"center\">End of Canto 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