Canto 31On the Mountains
Book 3. Part Three - Baroda and Bengal Circa 1900 – 1909
Immense retreats of silence and of gloom,
Hills of a sterile grandeur, rocks that sublime
In bareness seek the blue sky’s infinite room
With their coeval snows untouched by Time!
5I seek your solemn spaces! Let me at last
Forgotten of thought through days immemorable
Voiceless and needless keep your refuge vast,
Growing into the peace in which I dwell.
For like that Soul unmade you seem to brood
10Who sees all things emerge but none creates,
Watching the ages from His solitude,
Lone, unconcerned, remote. You to all Fates
Offer an unchanged heart, unmoved abide,
Wordless, acceptant, sovereignly still.
15There is a soul in us as silent, wide,
Mere, uncreative, imperturbable.