Canto 27Evolution [1]
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
Pondicherry, c. 1927–1947
The Silver Call
There is a godhead of unrealised things
To which Time’s splendid gains are hoarded dross;
5A cry seems near, a rustle of silver wings
Calling to heavenly joy by earthly loss.
All eye has seen and all the ear has heard
Is a pale illusion by some greater voice
And mightier vision; no sweet sound or word,
10No passion of hues that make the heart rejoice
Can equal those diviner ecstasies.
A Mind beyond our mind has sole the ken
Of those yet unimagined harmonies,
The fate and privilege of unborn men.
15As rain-thrashed mire the marvel of the rose,
Earth waits that distant marvel to disclose.
Evolution [1]
I passed into a lucent still abode
And saw as in a mirror crystalline
20An ancient Force ascending serpentine
The unhasting spirals of the aeonic road.
Earth was a cradle for the arriving god
And man but a half-dark half-luminous sign
Of the transition of the veiled Divine
25From Matter’s sleep and the tormented load
Of ignorant life and death to the Spirit’s light.
Mind liberated swam Light’s ocean vast,
And life escaped from its grey tortured line;
I saw Matter illumining its parent Night.
30The soul could feel into infinity cast
Timeless God-bliss the heart incarnadine.