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The Symbol Dawn

• It was the hour before the God's awake.
• Across the path of the divine Event...
• A power of fallen boundless self awake...
• As in a dark beginning of all things...
• The impassive skies were neutral, empty, still...
• A throe that came and left a quivering trace...
• It was as though even in the Nought's profound...
• An unshaped consciousness desired Light...
• As if a childlike finger laid on a cheek...
• Arrived from the other side of boundlessness...
• Intervening in a mindless universe...
• A thought was sown in the unsounded Void...
• All can be done if the God-touch is there.
• A hope stole in that hardly dared to be...
• A wandering hand of pale enchanted light...
• A clamour from the unreached transcendences...
• Almost that day the epiphany was disclosed...
• Once she half looked behind for her veiled sun...
• Here where our half-lit ignorance skirts the gulfs...
• A sacred yearning lingered in its trace...
• The message ceased and waned the messenger...
• And Savitri too awoke among these tribes...
• In her there was the anguish of the gods...
• In vain now seemed the splendid sacrifice...
• Inflicting on the heights the abysm's law...
• A fire has come and touched men's hearts and gone...
• A dark foreknowledge separated her...
• Even in this moment of her soul's despair...
• At first life grieved not in her burdened breast...
• The Power that kindles mind was still withdrawn...
• Her house of Nature felt an unseen sway...
• All the fierce question of man's hours relived...