Canto 142The Death of a God [2]
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
Arise, tread out the fire,
Scatter the ashes of a god through the stars!
Forget to hope and aspire.
He is dead and his greatness that cumbered the world has
5vanished like a golden shadow from the ages.
The whip of glory, the splendid burden behind us are cast,
Earth is free from fire and stress, left to the joy of her
smallness, rid of his mighty spirit at last.
All that is false and wry and little are freed to follow their
10nature once more.
Close time’s brilliant pages!
Give back to man’s life the old tables, its dull ease, its bowed
greyness restore.