NIGHT CHILD Into a world of darkness born Thy folded hands beseeching light, A temple-lamp of kingliness Revealed in birth’s tremendous plight. A symbol journey through a realm of tears, The dark oppressive weight of life, That greets the soul new-born in flesh, While the dust of all infinity Lies scattered on thy God-like feet; Though speechless bringing forth the realms of sound, And breathing gently in the sombre night, One with the silent things of earth. Night child, faint cries bespeak they presence, While motionless in dreams thou liest

Aurora      May 24, 1970 Over the hills and the flatlands I see Children garbed in strength and light, Aurora! They opened in me a vision of Thee Of splendour cast on the loom of night, Aurora! Grant as we wake that our morns may be Offered as incense, fragrant and bright. Aurora!

Samadhi I How cool the marble of thy calm repose; Millions bow to thee from earth and sky, A thousand footfalls slowly passing by, Serene Thou lie and perfect as the rose.

Earth Prayer To walk through fragrant fields on feet of love And pluck from withered blooms the seeds of life, To greet a newer earth by Grace defined. And harmony sow midst all these days of strife, Rain down Spirit, voice of timeless waters, Upon her plundered riven breast, Thy balm. And gentle in the fold of time-born hands Awake her timeless heart to new-born calm.

Joy of the Inner Way Life runs joyous through these limbs And the sounds of melodious zephyr hymns In fields of the spirit's inner sight. Sing of peace, and the end of night. An overwhelming gratitude Fills the seekers inner mood And fragrant moments of delight Sail on the being's sea of light.

To Mother - A Prayer From Auroville Oct. 5, 1970 Sweet and sacred lady of the stars Whose simplest movement beckons trails of light To fall in streams upon our earth-hewn heads, Humbly lies Thy Name upon our lips. Faint breezes stir the sapling soul to wake Amid the perfume of Thy earthly form, The radiating litany of song, Thy Voice, the splendid melody of earth. We bow, O Mystery, before Thy Feet While colours unnameable fill the fragrant air The incense of Thy Love, Thy Smile, Thy Touch, To soar to heights unkn

Turn Not From Grace Far past the erring ways we've trod Where feet of light would wander not No path from us was wholly barred Thy grace our steps have oft forgot. Thy call we've heard, have gained Thy sight, But if ignorant refuse new birth Wilt Thou again in love alight Upon this charred and ravaged earth?

Matrimandir, Auroville Inscribe upon the memory of the trees My love of Her who brought me forth to these Barren plains where the spirit must define The future's truth embodied in Her shrine.

The Divine Visitor That he might come and I unknowing sleep, Absorbed in dreams and only half aware, My storm-cloud consciousness disrupting light. Yet could he pass without a heart uncharmed And by the power of his presence, calmed? Should I not wake and dawn behold in night, Some fragrance catch on a supernal air And by His touch my soul's remembrance keep?

Prayer for His Intercession    Nov. 1969 Receive me now, I freely come, Let seals be shattered, dross refined Till nothing stands a bar to Thee And thy transforming Will in me, And humbly let me swiftly find The way to thy Elysium.