On Reading Savitri

Sept. 6, 1999

In mantric lines of breadth and majesty

Charged with the force of a God-poet's will,

Whose peace descends illumining to fill

With sudden light the moved and quickened heart

By revelation's clear unerring art,

To reason unknowable, lest all falls still,

And then by beauty overwhelmed and the thrill

Of a grandiose vision vast with potency.