Canto 3The Blue Bird

Book 15. Part Six - Baroda and Pondicherry Circa 1902 – 1936

Poems Past and Present

The Blue Bird

I am the bird of God in His blue;

Divinely high and clear

5I sing the notes of the sweet and the true

For the god’s and the seraph’s ear.

I rise like a fire from the mortal’s earth

Into a griefless sky

And drop in the suffering soil of his birth

10Fire-seeds of ecstasy.

My pinions soar beyond Time and Space

Into unfading Light;

I bring the bliss of the Eternal’s face

And the boon of the Spirit’s sight.

15I measure the worlds with my ruby eyes;

I have perched on Wisdom’s tree

Thronged with the blossoms of Paradise

By the streams of Eternity.

Nothing is hid from my burning heart;

20My mind is shoreless and still;

My song is rapture’s mystic art,

My flight immortal will.