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Canto 2

The Issue

The Many-Imaged Past

Awhile, withdrawn in secret fields of thought,

Her mind moved in a many-imaged past

That lived again and saw its end approach:

Dying, it lived imperishably in her;

Transient and vanishing from transient eyes,

Invisible, a fateful ghost of self,

It bore the future on its phantom breast.

Along the fleeting event’s far-backward trail

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Savitri and the God of Love

Alone amid the many faces loved,

Aware among unknowing happy hearts,

Her armoured spirit kept watch upon the hours

Listening for a foreseen tremendous step

In the closed beauty of the inhuman wilds.

A combatant in silent dreadful lists,

The world unknowing, for the world she stood:

No helper had she save the Strength within;

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The Immortal and the Snare of Time

Almost they saw who lived within her light

Her playmate in the sempiternal spheres

Descended from its unattainable realms

In her attracting advent’s luminous wake,

The white-fire dragon-bird of endless bliss

Drifting with burning wings above her days:

Heaven’s tranquil shield guarded the missioned child.

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A Magic Leverage

A magic leverage suddenly is caught

That moves the veiled Ineffable’s timeless will:

A prayer, a master act, a king idea

Can link man’s strength to a transcendent Force.

Then miracle is made the common rule,

One mighty deed can change the course of things;

A lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

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The Victory for God in Man

But wisdom comes, and vision grows within:

Then Nature’s instrument crowns himself her king;

He feels his witnessing self and conscious power;

His soul steps back and sees the Light supreme.

A Godhead stands behind the brute machine.

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