Explorations in Savitri

All's miracle here and can by miracle change. This is that secret Nature's edge of might.

A giant order was discovered here Of which the tassel and extended fringe Are the scant stuff of our material lives.

All the great Words that toiled to express the One Were lifted into an absoluteness of light, An ever-burning Revelation's fire And the immortality of the eternal Voice.

Above were the Immortal's changeless seats, White chambers of dalliance with eternity And the stupendous gates of the Alone.

In a profound existence beyond earth's Parent or kin to our ideas and dreams Where Space is a vast experiment of the soul, In an immaterial substance linked to ours In a deep oneness of all things that are, The universe of the Unknown arose.

A miracle of the Absolute was born; Infinity put on a finite soul, All ocean lived within a wandering drop, A time-made body housed the Illimitable. To live this Mystery out our souls came here.

Its intercession with the eternal Ray Inspires our transient earth's brief-lived attempts At beauty and the perfect shape of things.

Intruder from the formless Infinite Daring to break into the Inconscient's reign, The spirit's leap towards body touches ground.

Thus taken was God's plunge into the Night. This fallen world became a nurse of souls Inhabited by concealed divinity.