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My other selves
I lost and the body of God,
The link
of the finite with the Infinite,
The bridge
between the appearance and the Truth,
The mystic aim
for which the world was made,
The human sense
of Immortality.
Bot now the gold link
comes to me with thy feet
And His gold sun
has shone on me from thy face.
For now another realm
draws near with thee
And now diviner voices
fill my ear,
A strange new world
swims to me in thy gaze
Approaching like a star
from unknown heavens;
A cry of spheres
comes with thee and a song
Of flaming gods.
I draw a wealthier breath
And in a fierier
march of moments move.
My mind transfigures
to a rapturous seer.
A foam-leap travelling
from the waves of bliss
Has changed my heart
and changed the earth around:
All with thy coming fills.
Air, soil and stream
Wear bridal raiment
to be fit for thee
And sunlight grows
a shadow of thy hue
Because of change
within me by thy look.
Come nearer to me
from thy car of light
On this green sward
disdaining not our soil.
For here are secret spaces
made for thee
Whose caves of emerald
long to screen thy form.
Wilt thou not make
this mortal bliss thy sphere?
Descend, O happiness,
with thy moon-gold feet
Enrich earth’s floors
upon whose sleep we lie.
O my bright
beauty’s princess Savitri,
By my delight
and thy own joy compelled
Enter my life,
thy chamber and thy shrine.
In the great quietness
where spirits meet,
Led by my hushed desire
into my woods
Let the dim rustling arches
over thee lean;
One with the breath
of things eternal live,
Thy heart-beats near to mine,
till there shall leap
Enchanted from the fragrance
of the flowers
A moment which all murmurs
shall recall
And every bird remember
in its cry.”
