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Under the night sky
 When the last flush of day
Drew down the blinds on the world,
Night's nascent charm grew wide,
Swaddling the girdle of the earth;
While under the musing murk,
My spirit's fingers stretched above
And touched a bursting dome
Of flaming orbs caressing at first
The low-hung silver cadence in the west:
Then they strayed to the polar friend
Of sea-lost folk. Wheeling about
They passed a curve of fires on
To the milky meander teasing planet and star.
Yet through the garish glow of galaxies,
The spirit's night deepened;
When, with a sudden wink of inward hush,
The lids opened within, limning a lens,
Focussing a single star of splendour,
The parent light of all the shining spheres.
-By G. Viswanathan
('From An Ampler Ether')
(Appeared in 'Mother India' Sri Aurobindo Ashram, November 1979)
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8th Main, Girinagar 2nd Phase,
Bangalore 560 085.
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