Canto 141The Death of a God [1]
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
THE EARTH VOICES
Arise now, tread out the fire!
Scatter the ashes of a God through the stars.
Forget to hope and aspire.
5Let us paint our prison, let us strengthen its bars.
Lo, now he is dead and the greatness that cumbered the world
and Time’s ways
Has vanished like a golden shadow thrust out from the
anguish of the ages;
10The glory and burden, the sunlight and the passion have left
our days;
Once more we can wear the grey livery of Death and
gather in his wages.
All that drew back from his splendour fleeing as ashamed from
15the light and the beauty and invincible sweetness
Now returns vaunting their darkness and littleness, this fret of
life’s fever, its cruel and sad incompleteness.