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Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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SIRIOTH<br />

LUCIFER<br />

Sirioth, I do not yet intend; I feel.<br />

SIRIOTH<br />

Short <strong>Poems</strong> 277<br />

Thou intendest?<br />

For me the sense of active force within<br />

Set me to work, as the stars move, the sun<br />

Resistless flames through space, the stormwind runs.<br />

But I have felt a touch as sweet as spring,<br />

And I have heard a music of delight<br />

Maddening the heart with the sweet honied stabs<br />

Of delicate intolerable joy.<br />

Where, where is One to feel the answering bliss?<br />

Lucifer, thou from love beganst thy toil.<br />

What love?<br />

LUCIFER<br />

SIRIOTH<br />

Desire august to help, to serve.<br />

That is not mine. To embrace, to melt and mix<br />

Two beings into one, to roll the spirit<br />

Tumbling into a surge of common joy, —<br />

’Tis this I seek.<br />

LUCIFER<br />

Will He permit?

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