Savitri Book 2 Canto 7 - The Descent into Night
A charm and sweetness sudden and formidable, Faces that raised alluring lips and eyes Approached him armed with beauty like a snare, But hid a fatal meaning in each line And could in a moment dangerously change. ||56.5|| But he alone discerned that screened attack. ||56.6||
A Power that laughed at the mischief of the world, An irony that joined the world’s contraries And flung them into each other’s arms to strive, Put a sardonic rictus on God’s face. ||56.17||
Only were safe who kept God in their hearts: Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk, The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout, Casting a javelin regard in front, Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light. ||57.23||
Haled by a serpent-force from its warm home And dragged to extinction in blank vacancy Life clung to its seat with cords of gasping breath; Lapped was his body by a tenebrous tongue. ||60.12||
He mastered the tides of Nature with a look: He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ||60.20||
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