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

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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.