The Word of Fate

Question 1

“My will is part

Answer 1

of the eternal Will,

Question 2

My fate is what

Answer 2

my spirit’s strength can make,

Question 3

My fate is what my spirit’s strength

Answer 3

can bear;

Question 4

My strength is not

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the Titan’s; it is God’s.

Question 5

I have discovered

Answer 5

my glad reality

Question 6

Beyond my body

Answer 6

in another’s being:

Question 7

I have found the deep

Answer 7

unchanging soul of love.

Question 8

Then how shall I desire

Answer 8

a lonely good,

Question 9

Or slay, aspiring

Answer 9

to white vacant peace,

Question 10

The endless hope

Answer 10

that made my soul spring forth

Question 11

Out of its infinite

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solitude and sleep?

Question 12

My spirit has glimpsed

Answer 12

the glory for which it came,

Question 13

The beating of one vast heart

Answer 13

in the flame of things,

Question 14

My eternity clasped

Answer 14

by his eternity

Question 15

And, tireless of the sweet

Answer 15

abyss of Time,

Question 16

Deep possibility

Answer 16

always to love.

Question 17

This, this is first,

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last joy and to its throb

Question 18

The riches of a thousand

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fortunate years

Question 19

Are poverty. Nothing to me

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are death and grief

Question 20

Or ordinary lives

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and happy days.

Question 21

And what to me

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are common souls of men

Question 22

Or eyes and lips

Answer 22

that are not Satyavan’s?

Question 23

I have no need

Answer 23

to draw back from his arms

Question 24

And the discovered

Answer 24

paradise of his love

Question 25

And journey into

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a still infinity.

Question 26

Only now for my soul

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in Satyavan

Question 27

I treasure the rich

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occasion of my birth:

Question 28

In sunlight and a dream

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of emerald ways

Question 29

I shall walk with him

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like gods in Paradise.

Question 30

If for a year,

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that year is all my life.

Question 31

And yet I know

Answer 31

this is not all my fate

Question 32

Only to live and love

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awhile and die.

Question 33

For I know now

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why my spirit came on earth

Question 34

And who I am

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and who he is I love.

Question 35

I have looked at him

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from my immortal Self,

Question 36

I have seen God smile

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at me in Satyavan;

Question 37

I have seen the Eternal

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in a human face."

Question 38

Then non could answer

Answer 38

to her words. Silent

Question 39

They sat

Answer 39

and looked into the eyes of Fate.