So like a gloomy pall above the earth!Before thy magic touch, the worldAwakes. The birds in chorus sing.The flowers raise their star-like crowns-Dew-set, and wave thee welcome fair.The lakes are opening wide in loveTheir hundred thousand lotus-eyesTo welcome thee, with all their depth.All hail to thee, thou Lord of Light!A welcome new to thee, today,O…
(Written in memoriam to J. J. Goodwin, August,1898.)Speed forth, O Soul! upon thy star-strewn path;Speed, blissful one! where thought is ever free,Where time and space no longer mist the view,Eternal peace and blessings be with thee!Thy service true, complete thy sacrifice,Thy home the heart of love transcendent find;Remembrance sweet, that kills all space and time,Like…
The desert air resounds the callsOf heart-struck lion’s rage.The cloud puts forth it deluge strengthWhen lightning cleaves its breast,When the soul is stirred to its in most depthGreat ones unfold their best.Let eyes grow dim and heart grow faint,And friendship fail and love betray,Let Fate its hundred horrors send,And clotted darkness block the way.All nature…
The depths where Mother hidesHer silent failless bolts!Perchance the child had glimpseOf shades, behind the scenes,With eager eyes and strained,Quivering forms-readyTo jump in front and beEvents, resistless, strong.Who knows but Mother, how,And where, and when, they come?Perchance the shining sageSaw more than he could tell;Who knows, what soul, and when,The Mother makes Her throne?What law…
The light that is in darkness,The shade in dazzling light.It is joy that never spoke,And grief unfelt, profound,Immortal life unlived,Eternal death unmourned.It is not joy nor sorrow,But that which is between,It is not noght nor morrow,But that which joins them in.It is sweet rest in music;And pause in sacred art;The silence between speaking;Between two fits…
In mountain caves and glades of forest deep,Whose calm no sigh for lust or wealth or fameCould ever dare to break; where rolled the streamOf knowledge, truth, and bliss that follows both.Sing high that note, Sannyasin bold! Say—‘Om Tat Sat, Om! ‘Strike off thy fetters! Bonds that bind thee down,Of shining gold, or darker, baser…
The charm and force that ever swayThe altar-fire’s flaming play;The strength that leads, in love obeys;Far-reaching dreams, and patient ways,Eternal faith in Self, in all,The light Divine in great, in small;All these and more than I could see,Today may ‘Mother’ grant to thee!
An orange sun, about to say farewell,Touches the massed cloud-shapes with streaks of red.The wind blows as it lists, a hurricaneNow carving shapes, now breaking them apart:Fancies, colours, forms, inert creations –A myriad scenes, though real, yet fantastic.There light clouds spread, heaping up spun cotton;See next a huge snake, then a strong lion;Again, behold a…
What though no mate to clear thy path,Thy sky with gloom o’ercast –What though of love itself doth fail,Thy fragrance strewed in vain;What though if bad o’er good prevail,And vice o’er virtue reign –Change not thy nature, gentle bloom,Thou violet, sweet and pure,But ever pour thy sweet perfumeUnasked, unstinted, sure !
Though blighted looks the present, future gloom.And age it seems since you and I began ourMarch up hill or down. Sailing smooth o’erSeas that are so rare-Thou nearer unto me, than oft-times I myself-Proclaiming mental moves before they were!Reflector true-Thy pulse so timed to mine,Thou perfect note of thoughts, however fine-Shall we now part, Recorder,…
