IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE

        by: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)

            Men say the world is full of fear and hate,
            And all life's ripening harvest-fields await
            The restless sickle of relentless fate.
             
            But I, sweet Soul, rejoice that I was born,
            When from the climbing terraces of corn
            I watch the golden orioles of Thy morn.
             
            What care I for the world's desire and pride,
            Who know the silver wings that gleam and glide,
            The homing pigeons of Thine eventide?
             
            What care I for the world's loud weariness,
            Who dream in twilight granaries Thou dost bless
            With delicate sheaves of mellow silences?
             
            Say, shall I heed dull presages of doom,
            Or dread the rumoured loneliness and gloom,
            The mute and mythic terror of the tomb?
             
            For my glad heart is drunk and drenched with Thee,
            O inmost wine of living ecstasy!
            O intimate essence of eternity!

"In Salutation to the Eternal Peace" is reprinted from The Oxford Book
of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon
Press, 1917.

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