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Faithful
Let leap, O Mother, Thy lightning-fire: The prisoned soul cries out for Thee. Let youth’s blue dream in the Blue aspire To Thy crystal-song of eternity. The dungeon-walls that stifle the heart Throw down: oh, let Thy avalanche-dart Its thrill to our pilgrim life impart: Come with the voice of Thy hurtling sea. Open life’s floodgates with Thy Fire: The soul, clay’s hostage, cries for Thee.
Beloved, I know Thy summit-psalm — A fecund pledge of Deep to Deep: I know that Thy Beauty’s beckoning calm Makes courage, answering, overleap Despond’s abysmal gulf below, And stamp on its brow Thy golden glow, Earth’s eyeless caverns overflow With Thy liberating gleam: we reap The harvest of Thy summit-psalm — Its fecund pledge of Deep to Deep.
Let sunrise bugle blare and cleave The coward clouds which woo the Night. Flower-grace Incarnate! help me weave Thy amaranthine dream’s delight. Make listless life-blood feel Thy call, Tingle to dare, defy the fall. The earth-plane’s cherished joys now pall, I long to climb Thy dangerous height: Unsheathe Thy dazzling sun-sword — cleave The moaning clouds which woo the Night.
Page – 566 I am the elect of Thy scatheless Light: Let faith unfading keep soul-ground. Let Thy trumpet call to Thy fiery flight, In Thy sun-campaign to face death-wound. In a flash Thy blinding loveliness With Thy Promise of Peak descends to bless, Thy morning’s legions slay Night’s distress, In Thy diamond-sheen life’s glory is found: I am vowed to Thy zenith of flawless light — Faith vibrant keeps my soul’s wide ground.
DILIP KUMAR ROY
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