Faithful

Let leap, O Mother, Thy lightning-fire:

The prisoned soul cries out for Thee.

Let youth's blue dream in the Blue aspire

To Thy crystal-song of eternity.

The dungeon-walls that stifle the heart

Throw down: oh, let Thy avalanche-dart

Its thrill to our pilgrim life impart:

Come with the voice of Thy hurtling sea.

Open life's floodgates with Thy Fire:

The soul, clay's hostage, cries for Thee.

Beloved, I know Thy summit-psalm —

A fecund pledge of Deep to Deep:

I know that Thy Beauty's beckoning calm

Makes courage, answering, overleap

Despond's abysmal gulf below,

And stamp on its brow Thy golden glow,

Earth's eyeless caverns overflow

With Thy liberating gleam: we reap

The harvest of Thy summit-psalm —

Its fecund pledge of Deep to Deep.

Let sunrise bugle blare and cleave

The coward clouds which woo the Night.

Flower-grace Incarnate! help me weave

Thy amaranthine dream's delight.

Make listless life-blood feel Thy call,

Tingle to dare, defy the fall.

The earth-plane's cherished joys now pall,

I long to climb Thy dangerous height:

Unsheathe Thy dazzling sun-sword — cleave

The moaning clouds which woo the Night. 

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I am the elect of Thy scatheless Light:

Let faith unfading keep soul-ground.

Let Thy trumpet call to Thy fiery flight,

In Thy sun-campaign to face death-wound.

In a flash Thy blinding loveliness

With Thy Promise of Peak descends to bless,

Thy morning's legions slay Night's distress,

In Thy diamond-sheen life's glory is found:

I am vowed to Thy zenith of flawless light —

Faith vibrant keeps my soul's wide ground.

DILIP KUMAR ROY

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