At
last I find a meaning of soul's birth
Into
this universe terrible and sweet,
I who have felt the hungry heart of
earth
Aspiring beyond
heaven to Krishna's feet.
I have seen the beauty of immortal
eyes,
And heard the passion
of the Lover's flute,
And
known a deathless ecstasy's surprise
And sorrow in my heart for
ever mute.
Nearer apd nearer now the music draws,
Life shudders
with a strange felicity;
All Nature is a wide enamoured pause
Hoping her lord
to touch, to clasp, to be.
For this one moment lived the ages past;
The world now throbs fulfilled in me at last.
15.9.1939