Canto 64One
Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947
Lyrical Poems
Who art thou that camest
Who art thou that camest
Bearing the occult Name,
5Wings of regal darkness,
Eyes of an unborn flame?
Like the august uprising
Of a forgotten sun
Out of the caverned midnight
10Fire-trails of wonder run.
Captured the heart renouncing
Tautness of passion-worn strings
Allows the wide-wayed sweetness
Of free supernal things.
15One
The mind of a man
And the mind in a stone.
But the Mind of minds
Sits bright and alone.
20The life of a tree,
The life in a clod,
To the Life of all life
That men call God.
The heart of a beast
25And a seraph’s heart, —
But the Heart of all hearts
Throbs ever apart.