Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 5Journey’s End

Book 4. Poems in Quantitative Metres

Journey’s End5 The day ends lost in a stretch of even, A long road trod — and the little farther.

Now the waste-land, now the silence; A blank dark wall, and behind it heaven.

⌣— — — |⌣⌣— ⌣| — ⌣. In line 3, two double trochees,

— ⌣— ⌣| — ⌣— ⌣.