The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 9/Writings: Prose and Poems(Original and Translated)/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 [7]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.