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As a flame disappears in endless Light | EoS | |
Immortally extinguished in its source, | ||
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Vanished the splendour and was stilled the word.
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(S 2) | ||
An echo of delight that once was close, | EoS | |
The harmony journeyed towards some distant hush, | ||
A music failing in the ear of trance, | ||
A cadence called by distant cadences,
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460 | A voice that trembled into strains withdrawn. | |
(S 3) | ||
Her form retreated from the longing earth | EoS | |
Forsaking nearness to the abandoned sense, | ||
Ascending to her unattainable home. | ||
(S 4) | ||
Lone, brilliant, vacant lay the inner fields; | ||
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All was unfilled inordinate spirit space,
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Indifferent, waste, a desert of bright peace. | ||
(S 5) | ||
Then a line moved on the far edge of calm: | ||
The warm-lipped sentient soft terrestrial wave,
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A quick and many-murmured moan and laugh,
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Came gliding in upon white feet of sound.
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(S 6) | ||
Unlocked was the deep glory of Silence’ heart; | ||
The absolute unmoving stillnesses | ||
Surrendered to the breath of mortal air, | ||
Dissolving boundlessly the heavens of trance | ||
475 | Collapsed to waking mind. Eternity | |
Cast down its incommunicable lids
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Over its solitudes remote from ken
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Behind the voiceless mystery of sleep. | ||
(S 7) | ||
The grandiose respite failed, the wide release. | ||
(S 8) | ||
480 | Across the light of fast-receding planes | |
That fled from him as from a falling star, | ||
Compelled to fill its human house in Time | ||
His soul drew back into the speed and noise | ||
Of the vast business of created things. | ||
(S 9) | ||
485 | A chariot of the marvels of the heavens | EoS |
Broad-based to bear the gods on fiery wheels, | ||
??Flaming he swept through the spiritual gates.
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(S 10) | ||
The mortal stir received him in its midst.
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EoS | |
(S 11) | ||
Once more he moved amid material scenes, | ||
490 | Lifted by intimations from the heights | |
And in the pauses of the building brain | ||
Touched by the thoughts that skim the fathomless surge
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Of Nature and wing back to hidden shores. | ||
(S 12) | ||
The eternal seeker in the aeonic field | EoS | |
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??Besieged by the intolerant press of hours
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Again was strong for great swift-footed deeds. | ||
(S 13) | ||
Awake beneath the ignorant vault of Night, | EoS | |
He saw the unnumbered people of the stars | ||
And heard the questioning of the unsatisfied flood
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500 | And toiled with the form-maker, measuring Mind. | |
(S 14) | ||
A wanderer from the occult invisible suns | EoS | |
Accomplishing the fate of transient things, | ||
A god in the figure of the arisen beast, | ||
He raised his brow of conquest to the heavens | ||
505 | Establishing the empire of the soul | |
On Matter and its bounded universe | ||
As on a solid rock in infinite seas. | ||
(S 15) | ||
The Lord of Life resumed his mighty rounds | EoS | |
In the scant field of the ambiguous globe.
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Book 3, Canto 4 – The Vision and the Boon, Section 4Savitri Bhavan2020-08-23T09:51:48+00:00