SMOKE ASCENDING
WHITE is the smoke ascending
From the pyre,
Many the fires re-wending
To the One fire.
Smoke, be my charioteer's
Resurgent team
Shod with conquered fears,
Quitting this dream,
Leaping along the light way
Of wideness joy,
Braving the golden height way
No harms annoy,
Straining to reach the raybeams
Of the supreme Star,
Till all this fettering clay seems
Unutterably far.
November 18, 1936.
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