Prose: ONE CIRCLE MORE

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Swami Vivekananda · January 1, 1900
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One Circle More

   

 

[A fragmentary poem composed at Ridgely Manor, in 1899]

One circle more the spiral path of life ascends And time's restless shuttle — running back and fro Through maze of warp and woof
of shining
threads of life — spins out a stronger piece. (Cf. a slightly different version of the first three lines of this poem which appeared in Swami Vivekananda’s own handwriting on the left-hand side of the folded letter paper containing the original draft (Vide the facsimile): One circle more the spiral path of life ascends And Time's restless shuttle running

back and fro

through maze of warp and woof spins out a

stronger piece.)

Hand in hand they stand — and try to
fathom depths whence
springs eternal love, each in other's eyes;
And find
No hold o'er that age but brings the youth anew — And time — the good, the pure, the true.


 

 

 

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- www.vivekananda.net edited by Frank Parlato Jr.

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