⁠Savitri: a Legend and a Symbol ⁠by Sri Aurobindo, Book I The Book of Beginnings, Canto 1, The Symbol Dawn, pp. 3-6

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A wandering hand of pale
enchanted light that glowed

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along a fading moment's brink
fixed with gold panel.

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An opalescent hinge.
A gate of dreams ajar and

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mystery's verge. 1 loosened
corner.

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Windowing.
Hidden things forced the world's

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blind immensity to sight.
The darkness failed and slipped

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like a falling cloak from the
reclining body of a God.

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Then through the pallid rift
that seemed at first hardly

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enough, for a trickle from the
Suns outpoured the revelation

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and the flame.
The brief perpetual sign

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recurred above, a glamour from
unreached transcendences,

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iridescent with the glory of the
unseen, a message from the

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unknown immortal light, a blaze
upon creation's quivering edge.

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Dawn built her aura of
magnificent hues and buried its

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seed of grandeur in the hours an
instance visitor the God had

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shown on life's thin border.
A while the vision stood and

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bent over Earth's pondering
forehead curve, interpreting a

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recondite beauty and bliss in
colors, hero glyphs of Mystic

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sense.
It wrote the lines of his

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significant myth, telling of a
greatness of spiritual dawns, a

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brilliant code pinned with the
sky.

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For Paige, almost that day the
epiphany was disclosed, of which

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our thoughts and hopes are
signal flares.

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A lonely splendor from the
invisible goal almost was flung

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on the opaque inane once more.
A tread perturbed the vacant

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vasts infinity's center.
A face of rapturous calm parted

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the eternal lids that opened
heaven.

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A form from far beatitude seemed
to near ambassadrics twist

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eternity and change.
The omniscient goddess leaned

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across the breaths that wrapped
the fated journeyings of the

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stars and saw the spaces ready
for her feet.

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Once she half looked behind for
her veiled son, then thoughtful

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went to her immortal work.
Earth felt the Imperishable's

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passage close.
The waking ear of nature heard

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her steps and wideness, turned
to her its limitless eye and

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scattered unsealed depths.
Her luminous smile kindled to

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fire.
The silence of the world's all

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grew a consecration and a right
air was a vibrant link between

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earth and heaven.
The wide winged hymn of a great

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priestly wind arose and failed
upon the altar hills.

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The high boughs prayed in a
revealing sky, here where our

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half lit ignorance skirts the
gulfs on the dumb bosom of the

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ambiguous earth.
Here where one knows not even

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the step in front.
And truth has her throne on the

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shadowy back of doubt.
On this anguished and precarious

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field of toil, outspread beneath
some large indifferent gaze,

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impartial witness of our joy and
Baal, our prostate soil bore the

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awakening ray.
Here too, the vision and

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prophetic gleam lit into
miracles, common meaningless

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shapes.
Then the divine, a flatus spent,

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withdrew, unwanted, fading from
the mortal's range.

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A sacred yearning lingered in
its trace.

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The worship of a presence and a
power too perfect to be held by

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death bound hearts the
prescience of a marvelous birth

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to come.
Only a little the God light can

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stay.
Spiritual beauty illuminating

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human sight lines with its
passion and mystery.

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Matters mask and squanders
eternity on a beat of time, as

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when a soul draws near the sill
of birth, adjoining mortal time

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to timelessness.
A spark of deity lost in matters

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crypt, its luster vanishes in
the inconscient plains.

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The transient glow of magic fire
so now dissolved in bright,

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accustomed air.
The message ceased and waned.

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The messenger, the single call,
the uncompanioned power drew

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Brack into some far off secret
world.

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The hue and marvel of the
supernal beam.

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She looked no more on our
mortality.

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The excess of beauty natural to
God, kind, could not uphold its

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claim on time born eyes too
Mystic, real for space tenancy.

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Her body of glory was expung
from heaven.

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The rarity and wonder lived no
more.

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There was the common light of
earthly day, a franchise from

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the respite of fatigue.
Once more the rumor of the speed

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of life pursued the cycles of
her blinded quest, All sprang to

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their unvarying daily acts.
The thousand peoples of the soil

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and tree obeyed the unforeseeing
instant's urge and lead her

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here.
With his uncertain mind alone,

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who stares at the future's
covered face, man lifted up the

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burden of his fate.