Canto 51The Unseen Infinite
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
Pondicherry, c. 1927–1947
Light
Light, endless Light! darkness has room no more,
Life’s ignorant gulfs give up their secrecy:
5The huge inconscient depths unplumbed before
Lie glimmering in vast expectancy.
Light, timeless Light immutable and apart!
The holy sealed mysterious doors unclose.
Light, burning Light from the Infinite’s diamond heart
10Quivers in my heart where blooms the deathless rose.
Light in its rapture leaping through the nerves!
Light, brooding Light! each smitten passionate cell
In a mute blaze of ecstasy preserves
A living sense of the Imperishable.
15I move in an ocean of stupendous Light
Joining my depths to His eternal height.
The Unseen Infinite
Arisen to voiceless unattainable peaks
I meet no end, for all is boundless He,
20An absolute joy the wide-winged spirit seeks,
A Might, a Presence, an Eternity.
In the inconscient dreadful dumb Abyss
Are heard the heart-beats of the Infinite.
The insensible midnight veils His trance of bliss,
25A fathomless sealed astonishment of Light.
In His ray that dazzles our vision everywhere,
Our half-closed eyes seek fragments of the One:
Only the eyes of Immortality dare
To look unblinded on that living Sun.
30Yet are our souls the Immortal’s selves within,
Comrades and powers and children of the Unseen.