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Or hope in vain to uplift an ignorant race Who hug their lot and mock the saviour Light And see in Mind wisdom's sole tabernacle, In its harsh peak and its inconscient base A rock of safety and an anchor of sleep? Is there a God whom any cry can move? He sits in peace and leaves the mortal's strength Impotent against his calm omnipotent Law And Inconscience and the almighty hands of Death. What need have I, what need has Satyavan To avoid the black-meshed net, the dismal door, Or call a mightier Light into life's closed room, A greater Law into man's little world? Why should I strive with earth's unyielding laws Or stave off death's inevitable hour? This surely is best to pactise with my fate And follow close behind my lover's steps And pass through night from twilight to the sun Across the tenebrous river that divides The adjoining parishes of earth and heaven. Then could we lie inarmed breast upon breast, Untroubled by thought, untroubled by our hearts, Forgetting man and life and time and its hours, Forgetting eternity's call, forgetting God." The Voice replied: "Is this enough, O spirit? And what shall thy soul say when it wakes and knows The work was left undone for which it came? Or is this all for thy being born on earth Charged with a mandate from eternity, A listener to the voices of the years, A follower of the footprints of the gods, To pass and leave unchanged the old dusty laws? Shall there be no new tables, no new Word, No greater light come down upon the earth Delivering her from her unconsciousness, Man's spirit from unalterable Fate? 
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