पृथ्वी, प्रेम और प्रलय | सावित्री pp. 10 | सावित्री यज्ञ SY 013

(Earth, Love and Doom). The following passage is taken up for study: All came back to her: Earth and Love and Doom, The ancient disputants, encircled her Like giant figures wrestling in the night: The godheads from the dim Inconscient born Awoke to struggle and the pang divine, And in the shadow of her flaming heart, At the sombre centre of the dire debate, A guardian of the unconsoled abyss Inheriting the long agony of the globe, A stone-still figure of high and godlike Pain Stared into Space with fixed regardless eyes That saw grief's timeless depths but not life's goal.Afflicted by his harsh divinity, Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased The daily oblation of her unwept tears. All the fierce question of man's hours relived. The sacrifice of suffering and desire Earth offers to the immortal Ecstasy Began again beneath the eternal Hand. Awake she endured the moments' serried march And looked on this green smiling dangerous world, And heard the ignorant cry of living things. Amid the trivial sounds, the unchanging scene Her soul arose confronting Time and Fate. Immobile in herself, she gathered force. This was the day when Satyavan must die.