Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, Canto 7 The Descent into Night, pp. 211-214

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In greater darkness waited a
worse reign, if worse can be

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where all is evil's extreme.
Yet to the cloaked the uncloaked

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is naked.
Worst, their God and truth and

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the supernal light had never
been or else had power no more,

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as when one slips in a deep
moment's trance over mind's

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border into another world.
He crossed a boundary whose

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stealthy trace I could not see,
but only the soul feel.

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Into an armored, fierce domain
he came and saw himself

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wandering like a lost soul amid
grimed walls and savage slums of

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night.
Around him crowded grey and

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squalid huts, neighboring proud
palaces of perverted power,

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inhuman quarters and demoniac
wards.

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A pride and evil hugged its
wretchedness, a misery haunting

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splendor.
Prestos fell done suburbs of the

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cities of dream life, their life
displayed to the spectator soul

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the shadow depths of her strange
miracle, a strong and fallen

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goddess without hope, obscured,
deformed by some dire gorgon

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spell, as might a harlot Empress
in a Bush.

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Nude, unashamed, exulting, she
upraised her evil face of

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perilous beauty and charm, and
drawing panic to a shuddering

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kiss, Twix the magnificence of
her fatal breasts.

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Allured to their abyss, the
spirits fall across his field of

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sight.
She multiplied as on a scenic

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film or moving plate.
The implacable splendor of her

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nightmare pomps on the dark
background of a soulless world.

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She staged between a lurid light
and shade, her dramas of the

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sorrow of the depths, written on
the agonized nerves of living

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things, epics of horror and grim
majesty.

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Wry statues spat and stiffened
in life's mud.

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A glut of hideous forms and
hideous deeds paralyzed pity in

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the hardened breast.
In booths of sin and night

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repairs of vice styled infamies
of the bodies.

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Concupiscence and sordid
imaginations etched in flesh

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turned lust into a decorative
art.

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Abusing nature's gift, Her
pervert skill immortalized the

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stone grain of living death in a
mud goblet, poured the Bacchic

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wine to a satire, gave the
thyrus of a God.

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Impure, sadistic with grimacing
mouths, grey fowl inventions,

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gruesome and macabre came
television from the gulfs of

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night.
Her craft in genius and

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monstrosity, impatient of all
natural shape and poise.

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A gape of nude exaggerated lines
gave caricature a stark reality

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and art parades of weird
distorted forms and gargoyle

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masks, obscene and terrible,
trampled to tormented postures.

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The torn sense.
An inexorable evils worshipper,

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she made vileness great and
sublimated filth.

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A dragon power of reptile
energies and strange epiphanies

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of grovelling force and serpent
granders couching in the mire

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drew adoration to a gleam of
slime.

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All nature pulled out of her
frame and base was twisted into

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an unnatural pose.
Repulsion stimulated in earth

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desire, agony was made a red
spiced food for bliss.

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Hatred was trusted with the work
of lust and torture took the

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form of an embrace.
A ritual anguish consecrated

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death.
Worship was offered to the

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undivine, a new aesthesis of
infernos, art that trained the

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mind to love what the soul
hates, imposed allegiance on the

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quivering nerves and forced the
unwilling body to vibrate, too

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sweet and too harmonious to
excite.

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In this regime that soiled the
being score, beauty was banned,

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the hearts feeling dulled to
sleep and cherished in their

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place sensations thrills.
The world was probed for jets of

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sense appeal.
Here cold material intellect was

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the judge and needed sensual
prick and jog and lash that it's

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hard dryness and dead nerves
might feel some passion and

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power and acrid point of life.
A new philosophy theorized

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evil's rights gloried in the
shimmering rot of decadence, or

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gave to a Python force
persuasive speech and armed with

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knowledge, the primeval brute
over life and matter.

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Only brooding bowed mind change
to an image of a rampant beast.

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It scrambled into the pit to dig
for truth and lighted its search

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with the subconscious flares.
Thence bubbling rose, sullying

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the upper air, the filth and
festering secrets of the abyss.

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This it called positive fact and
real life.

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This now composed the fetid
atmosphere.

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A wild beast's passion crept
from secret night to watch its

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prey with fascinating eyes.
Around him, like a fire with

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sputtering tongues, their lulled
and laughed a bestial ecstasy.

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The air was packed with
longings, brute and fierce,

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crowding and stinging in a
monstrous swarm pressed with a

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noxious hum into his mind,
thoughts that could poison

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nature's heavenliest breath.
Forcing reluctant lids assailed

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the sight.
Acts that revealed the mystery

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of hell.
All that was there was on this

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pattern made.