Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917.
Sarojini Naidu (18791949)378. In Salutation to the Eternal Peace
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And all life’s ripening harvest-fields await
The restless sickle of relentless fate.
When from the climbing terraces of corn
I watch the golden orioles of Thy morn.
Who know the silver wings that gleam and glide,
The homing pigeons of Thine eventide?
Who dream in twilight granaries Thou dost bless
With delicate sheaves of mellow silences?
Or dread the rumoured loneliness and gloom,
The mute and mythic terror of the tomb?
O inmost wine of living ecstasy!
O intimate essence of eternity!