It cannot be
Rose, violet, lily,
Their crushed life should retain,
Flowers that recall thy sweetness be ensouled,
And thou distil to nothing, thou not hold
Still, through all change, in fee
Inalienable thy being’s tenancy;
Not, through the crush of essence, phial again.
Impossible!
This hollow empty shell,
How like thy soft, small ear!
Can it the wide sea’s whisper, wash and foam,
Ocean’s vast life, remember, dimly home?
Nor thou, dear love, as well
Whorl’d in whatever spiral house sense dwell,
Our past life’s haunting music still not hear?
My frailer eye,
Dim window, can it spy
Through each wet streaming pane
This blurr, life’s stormy landscape? and can thine
From the clerestory of the life divine
Not, though embayed so high,
Catch prospect of my sorrow, memory
To think of those pure diamonds well may stain.
Oh, can a star,
Moonrise or dawn afar,
In this dark hut of clay
Chink crevices of glory, that bright world
Where thou with truth eternal art upfurled?
Nor thou, dear love, the bar
Beat through of utter beauty, things that are,
To reach back to the glimmerings of our day?
Thee to suggest
Shall memory take such zest,
Almost thy vacant couch
Remoulds thee to my vision, or the stair
Gives me thy shape familiar, thy soft air?
And thou, dear love, not dressed
Pure substance, thy perfection, at heaven’s best
Stream through the old sweet memory, bright
avouch?
Yes, through my earth
I feel the shadowy birth
In at each spiritual sense
Struggle of thy new beauty; in surprise
Reel at a hint of those now angel eyes;
And for thy smile, in dearth
Of sweetness so transcendent of its worth,
To be delivered, yearn with pain intense.
(Manmohan Ghose)
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