Divine Fire

Now falls the golden orb of light

Burning in a burnished sky

Slowly yielding to the night

The fire that our souls live by.

O Sun of our illumining

Linger not long from earthly sight

For love in us aspiring

Would free the spirit of delight

To dance upon the altar-stone

In Agni's purifying blaze

Flaming down from the Alone

All human imperfections raze,

Eternity find in every cell

And in thy solar splendour dwell.

First published in Mother India - November 2003