Sept. 1, 2024
Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol, Book XII The Return to Earth, Epilogue, pp. 721-724
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1
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Now the dusk shadowy trees stood
close around, like dreaming
2
00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:11,000
spirits and delaying night.
The grey eyed pence of evening
3
00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,640
heard their steps, and from all
points the cries and movements
4
00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,960
came of the four footed
Wanderers of the night
5
00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,720
approaching.
Then a human rumor rose, long
6
00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,400
alien to their solitary days,
invaded the charmed wilderness
7
00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:33,720
of leaves once sacred to
secluded loneliness, With
8
00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,480
violent breaking of its virgin
sleep through the screen dusk it
9
00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:45,080
deepened still, and there neared
floating many voices and the
10
00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,760
sound of many feet, till on
their sight broke in as if a
11
00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,800
colored wave upon the eye.
The brilliant, strenuous,
12
00:00:53,800 --> 00:01:00,240
crowded days of man, topped by a
flaring multitude of lights, A
13
00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,880
great resplendent company
arrived.
14
00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,280
Life in its ordered tumult
wavering came, bringing its
15
00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,400
streams of unknown faces
thronged with gold fringed
16
00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,320
headdresses, gold broidered
robes glittering of ornaments
17
00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,400
fluttering of hems.
Hundreds of hands parted the
18
00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:25,080
forest boughs, hundreds of eyes
searched the entangled glades
19
00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:30,440
calm white clad priests, their
grave eyed sweetness brought
20
00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:35,280
strong warriors in their
glorious armor shown the proud
21
00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,000
hoof steeds came trampling
through the wood in front.
22
00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:46,320
King Dilmatsena walked no more
blind, faltering limbed, but his
23
00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:50,960
far questing eyes, restored to
all their confidence in light,
24
00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,880
took seeingly this imaged outer
world.
25
00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:01,720
Firmly he trod with monarch step
the soil by him that Queen and
26
00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,640
Mother's anxious face came
change from its habitual
27
00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,440
burdened look, which in its
drooping strength of tired toil
28
00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,840
had borne the fallen life of
those she loved.
29
00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,680
Her patient paleness wore a
pensive glow, like evenings
30
00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:26,440
subdued gaze of gathered light
departing which foresees
31
00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:32,560
sunrise, her child sinking in
quiet splendors of her sky.
32
00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,560
She lives a while to muse upon
that hope, the brilliance of her
33
00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,520
rich receding gleam, a
thoughtful prophecy of lyric
34
00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,400
dawn.
Her eyes were first to find her
35
00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,440
children's forms, but at the
vision of the beautiful twain
36
00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,280
the air awoke perturbed with
scaling cries, and the swift
37
00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,440
parents hurrying to their child,
their cause of life now who had
38
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,000
given him breath, possessed him
with their arms.
39
00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,560
Then tenderly cried Dyomatsena
chiding Satyavan.
40
00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,320
The fortunate gods have looked
on me to day a Kingdom seeking
41
00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,920
came and heavens rays.
But where wast thou?
42
00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,400
Thou hast tormented gladness
with fierce dull shadow, O my
43
00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,320
child, my life.
What danger kept thee for the
44
00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,880
darkening woods?
Or how could pleasure in her
45
00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:36,120
ways forget that useless orbs
without thee Are my eyes, which
46
00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,800
only for thy sake rejoice at
light.
47
00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,040
Not like thyself was this done,
Savitri, who let's not back thy
48
00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,080
husband to our arms, knowing
with him beside me only his
49
00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:54,920
taste in food and for his touch.
Evening and morn I live content
50
00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,720
with my remaining days.
But Satyavan replied with
51
00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:05,240
smiling lips.
Lay all on her, she is the cause
52
00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,680
of all.
With her enchantments she has
53
00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,600
twined me round.
Behold, at noon, leaving this
54
00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:20,320
House of clay, I wandered in far
off eternities, yet still a
55
00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,680
captive.
In her golden hands I tread your
56
00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,520
little hillock called Green
earth, And in the moments of
57
00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,920
your transient son live glad
among the busy works of men.
58
00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,480
Then all eyes turned their
wondering looks where stood a
59
00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,280
deepening redder gold upon her
cheeks.
60
00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,840
With lowered lids the noble
lovely child and one consenting
61
00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:51,880
thought moved every breast.
What gleaming marvel of the
62
00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,880
earth or skies stands silently
by human Satyavan to mark a
63
00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,960
brilliance in the dusk of Eve?
If this is she of whom the world
64
00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:07,720
has heard, wonder no more at any
happy change, Each easy miracle
65
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,720
of Felicity, of her transmuting
heart.
66
00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,360
The alchemy is Then one spoke
there who seemed to priest and
67
00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:23,560
sage, O woman, soul, what light,
what power revealed working the
68
00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:29,120
rapid marvels of this day opens
for us by thee a happier age.
69
00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,480
Her lashes fluttering upwards,
gathered into a vision which had
70
00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,400
scanned immortal things,
rejoicing human forms for their
71
00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,480
delight.
They claim for their deep,
72
00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,960
childlike motherhood, the life
of all these souls to be her
73
00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,880
life.
Then falling veiled the light.
74
00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:58,560
Lo, she replied, awaken to the
meaning of my heart, that to
75
00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,240
feel love and oneness is to
live.
76
00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,480
And this, the magic of our
golden change, is all the truth
77
00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,840
I know or seek.
Osage, wondering at her and her
78
00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:19,000
too luminous words.
Westward they turned in the fast
79
00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:19,960
gathering night.
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,280
Now the dusk shadowy trees stood
close around, like dreaming
2
00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:11,000
spirits and delaying night.
The grey eyed pence of evening
3
00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,640
heard their steps, and from all
points the cries and movements
4
00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,960
came of the four footed
Wanderers of the night
5
00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,720
approaching.
Then a human rumor rose, long
6
00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,400
alien to their solitary days,
invaded the charmed wilderness
7
00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:33,720
of leaves once sacred to
secluded loneliness, With
8
00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,480
violent breaking of its virgin
sleep through the screen dusk it
9
00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:45,080
deepened still, and there neared
floating many voices and the
10
00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:49,760
sound of many feet, till on
their sight broke in as if a
11
00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,800
colored wave upon the eye.
The brilliant, strenuous,
12
00:00:53,800 --> 00:01:00,240
crowded days of man, topped by a
flaring multitude of lights, A
13
00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,880
great resplendent company
arrived.
14
00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,280
Life in its ordered tumult
wavering came, bringing its
15
00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,400
streams of unknown faces
thronged with gold fringed
16
00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:16,320
headdresses, gold broidered
robes glittering of ornaments
17
00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:20,400
fluttering of hems.
Hundreds of hands parted the
18
00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:25,080
forest boughs, hundreds of eyes
searched the entangled glades
19
00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:30,440
calm white clad priests, their
grave eyed sweetness brought
20
00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:35,280
strong warriors in their
glorious armor shown the proud
21
00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,000
hoof steeds came trampling
through the wood in front.
22
00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:46,320
King Dilmatsena walked no more
blind, faltering limbed, but his
23
00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:50,960
far questing eyes, restored to
all their confidence in light,
24
00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,880
took seeingly this imaged outer
world.
25
00:01:55,760 --> 00:02:01,720
Firmly he trod with monarch step
the soil by him that Queen and
26
00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,640
Mother's anxious face came
change from its habitual
27
00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:10,440
burdened look, which in its
drooping strength of tired toil
28
00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,840
had borne the fallen life of
those she loved.
29
00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,680
Her patient paleness wore a
pensive glow, like evenings
30
00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:26,440
subdued gaze of gathered light
departing which foresees
31
00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:32,560
sunrise, her child sinking in
quiet splendors of her sky.
32
00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:37,560
She lives a while to muse upon
that hope, the brilliance of her
33
00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:42,520
rich receding gleam, a
thoughtful prophecy of lyric
34
00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,400
dawn.
Her eyes were first to find her
35
00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,440
children's forms, but at the
vision of the beautiful twain
36
00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:56,280
the air awoke perturbed with
scaling cries, and the swift
37
00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:01,440
parents hurrying to their child,
their cause of life now who had
38
00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,000
given him breath, possessed him
with their arms.
39
00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:09,560
Then tenderly cried Dyomatsena
chiding Satyavan.
40
00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:15,320
The fortunate gods have looked
on me to day a Kingdom seeking
41
00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,920
came and heavens rays.
But where wast thou?
42
00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:23,400
Thou hast tormented gladness
with fierce dull shadow, O my
43
00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,320
child, my life.
What danger kept thee for the
44
00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,880
darkening woods?
Or how could pleasure in her
45
00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:36,120
ways forget that useless orbs
without thee Are my eyes, which
46
00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,800
only for thy sake rejoice at
light.
47
00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,040
Not like thyself was this done,
Savitri, who let's not back thy
48
00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,080
husband to our arms, knowing
with him beside me only his
49
00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:54,920
taste in food and for his touch.
Evening and morn I live content
50
00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,720
with my remaining days.
But Satyavan replied with
51
00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:05,240
smiling lips.
Lay all on her, she is the cause
52
00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:08,680
of all.
With her enchantments she has
53
00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:13,600
twined me round.
Behold, at noon, leaving this
54
00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:20,320
House of clay, I wandered in far
off eternities, yet still a
55
00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,680
captive.
In her golden hands I tread your
56
00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:27,520
little hillock called Green
earth, And in the moments of
57
00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,920
your transient son live glad
among the busy works of men.
58
00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,480
Then all eyes turned their
wondering looks where stood a
59
00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,280
deepening redder gold upon her
cheeks.
60
00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:46,840
With lowered lids the noble
lovely child and one consenting
61
00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:51,880
thought moved every breast.
What gleaming marvel of the
62
00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,880
earth or skies stands silently
by human Satyavan to mark a
63
00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,960
brilliance in the dusk of Eve?
If this is she of whom the world
64
00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:07,720
has heard, wonder no more at any
happy change, Each easy miracle
65
00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,720
of Felicity, of her transmuting
heart.
66
00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:16,360
The alchemy is Then one spoke
there who seemed to priest and
67
00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:23,560
sage, O woman, soul, what light,
what power revealed working the
68
00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:29,120
rapid marvels of this day opens
for us by thee a happier age.
69
00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,480
Her lashes fluttering upwards,
gathered into a vision which had
70
00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,400
scanned immortal things,
rejoicing human forms for their
71
00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,480
delight.
They claim for their deep,
72
00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,960
childlike motherhood, the life
of all these souls to be her
73
00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:50,880
life.
Then falling veiled the light.
74
00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:58,560
Lo, she replied, awaken to the
meaning of my heart, that to
75
00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,240
feel love and oneness is to
live.
76
00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,480
And this, the magic of our
golden change, is all the truth
77
00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:13,840
I know or seek.
Osage, wondering at her and her
78
00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:19,000
too luminous words.
Westward they turned in the fast
79
00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:19,960
gathering night.