Canto 93Torn are the walls

Book 16. Part Seven - Pondicherry Circa 1927 – 1947

Incomplete Poems

God to thy greatness

Of utter sedateness

5Has given a name

That fills it with light

Of His sovereign might.

He has lavished a flame

Of passionate fleetness

10On thy stillness and sweetness.

His ecstasies seven,

O daughter of Heaven,

Have seized thy limbs

That were motionless dreams.

15Silver foam

Silver foam in the dim East

And blood red in the brilliant Western sun.

Silver foam and a birth unseen,

Blood red and the long death begun.

20Torn are the walls

Torn are the walls and the borders carved by a miserly Nature,

I now have burst into limitless kingdoms of sweetness and

wonder.

Breaking the fences of Matter’s gods and their form and their feature,

25Fall’n are the barriers schemed and the vetoes are shattered

asunder.