SEA DAWN SMILING, with gracious mien Usha comes (Eastward cloud-banners lean— And sea-wave drums), Treading Her twilit path To summits of day (All of night's aftermath Fades fast away). Winning Light's victory Her sun-kissed feet Beckon unceasingly (The sea-drums beat), Gleam to the earth-bound Through spaces of mind, Token a Freedom found No shadows bind. November 13, 1936. Page-234

SHADOW-SUBDUING WHO would live in the hut of twilight Under the cliff of Dark, . Or watch the veering from grey to white And the first day-kindling spark ? When the sky is rife with rumour of dawn And the red wine is spilt in the East, The night is a raiment that earth has outworn— And stint is o'erladen and Truth is increased. March 31, 1937. Page-281

TO BOBBY WITH shanks of shadow tailing off its flight The heron, Day, wings far into the west : As days before that one by one alight Beyond our shadow-shine, seeking a nest . In the vague heronry of backward Time. With slow and peaceful wings trokes Day departs : Far off the sun-birth and the upward climb Of Light that now has settled in our hearts. Some circles have wide radius and some In a small distance can be traced complete : But over each alike the tracings come Back to the opening mark. Even so we meet (If Light must answer Light) two, three days hence,— Or years perforce,—checked b

UNVEERING LIGHT ACROSS unmoving lake A mirror theme Of swans with white wing- arches take Their endless dream. Poise-perfect is the set Of lunar-bright Pinions of trance where silence met Unveering light. October 21, 1936. Page-222

A SULTRY NIGHT THE stars are swallowed up by dark, No night birds call— Not yet the flickering .thunder-spark, The heavy raindrop-fall. Far, far away coolness and breeze Delight and soothe, Whose phantom memories here tease Limbs too weak to move. April 24, I936 Page-187

THE MIRROR-LAKE WITHIN THE HEART (To Gunvant) IF words were told till even with the waves That we viewed hastening, shadow-soft, to shore. They'd leave unbuilt the bridge our spirit' craves And doom us ever sundered as before. Though we should thrust our Babel tower nigh heaven, Unwearied—like those waves—pile phrase on phrase. For our dull dough of world we'd find no leaven Nor live within the blessedness we praise. Then rather should our idle speech be still; One utmost Silence that hath never erred Let all our being hearken, far apart From anxious thought and m

SOULSTEAD IN the core of this shadowy world A shadow less place Where Sorrow's dark wings are unfurled, Banished Death's trace. Pinions of sheer delight Conquer pain ; Self-subsistent Light Comes again. Shifting and sunder hood This cannot mar ; Quenchless, unriven stood Love's single star. How manifold disguises Teemed from the One : Loaned iterance suffices— Till the play is done. February 22, 1934. Page-51

FULL-OPENED FLOWER O THOU white undazzling splendour, Quiescent moon, Renew thy sway upon our life-tides ; Let it be soon. O thou white silence of the night skies, Bestow thy peace ; Wind thy cold flame on every thought-way, Give heart's release. Through rhythmic cycles of thy spring What culminant hour Blooms now when shadows drop defeated, Full-opened flower ! Full Moon, June 16, 1935. Page-132

YOUNGLING CRESCENT THE youngling crescent of the moon, Joy's signature on Siva's brow,—' All that the silences allow From the spear swift hurling sound When the midnight mirrors noon And the shadow-cliffs resound,— A slender gleam and silver arc Of knowledge ' twixt the dark and dark, A snake uncoiling from the ground Unearthly body wisdom-bright, Evoking from the eld of night The frozen music of the moon. Full Moon night, May 1933. Page-33

ECHO-DUMB EMERALD water, snow-white foam, And running waves.... Fathoms down .the mermaids comb Sun-gold hair in sombre caves. Above, the wrestling water-surge. Loud breakers' fall. . . . All cries in nether hush immerge, And echo-dumb the Caverned wall. Din is drowned in depths of green : O'er shadowy lawn Drifting gape-mouth fish are seen, A fingery crab, a phantom prawn. December 3, 1936. Page-246