Savitri

A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell


And take charge of breath and speech and act

And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns

And every feeling a celestial thrill.



(Savitri, Book 11 Canto 1)



And when that greater Self comes sea-like down

To fill this image of our transience,

All shall be captured by delight, transformed:

In waves of undreamed ecstasy shall roll

Our mind and life and sense and laugh in a light

Other than this hard limited human day,

The body's tissues thrill apotheosised,

Its cells sustain bright metamorphosis.

This little being of Time, this shadow-soul,

This living dwarf figure-head of darkened spirit

Out of its traffic of petty dreams shall rise.



(Savitri, Book 2 Canto 5)