Canto 3Reminiscence
Book 3. Part Three - Baroda and Bengal Circa 1900 – 1909
Poems from Ahana and Other Poems
The Master of man and his infinite Lover,
He is close to our hearts, had we vision to see;
We are blind with our pride and the pomp of our passions,
5We are bound in our thoughts where we hold ourselves free.
It is He in the sun who is ageless and deathless,
And into the midnight His shadow is thrown;
When darkness was blind and engulfed within darkness,
He was seated within it immense and alone.
10Miracles
Snow in June may break from Nature,
Ice through August last,
The random rose may increase stature
In December’s blast;
15But this at least can never be,
O thou mortal ecstasy,
That one should live, even in pain,
Visited by thy disdain.
Reminiscence
20My soul arose at dawn and, listening, heard
One voice abroad, a solitary bird,
A song not master of its note, a cry
That persevered into eternity.
My soul leaned out into the dawn to hear
25In the world’s solitude its winged compeer
And, hearkening what the Angel had to say,
Saw lustre in midnight and a secret day
Was opened to it. It beheld the stars
Born from a thought and knew how being prepares.
30Then I remembered how I woke from sleep
And made the skies, built earth, formed Ocean deep.