CANTO 12
THE HEAVENS OF THE IDEAL
1. At Each Pace Of The Journey Marvellous … /
A New Rung Formed In Being‘s Mighty Stair
2. On One Side Glimmered Hue On Floating Hue, … /
The Lovely Kingdoms Of The Deathless Rose
3. On The Other Side Of The Eternal Stairs … /
Lonely Mounts Up To Heaven The Deathless Flame
4. He Through The Ideal‘s Kingdoms Moved At Will
CANTO 13
IN THE SELF OF MIND
5. He Stood On A Wide Arc Of Summit Space … /
Alone With An Enormous Self Of Mind
6. Then Suddenly A Luminous Finger Fell /
On All Things Seen Or Touched Or Heared Or Felt /
And Showed His Mind That Nothing Could Be Known
7. A Huge Creator Death, A Mystic Void, … /
Reposed Beneath The Voices And The March /
The Dim Inconscient‘s Dumb Incertitude
CANTO 14
THE WORLD-SOUL
8. In A Far-Shimmering Background Of Mind-Space … /
There Shimmered Stealing Out Into The Mind /
A Mute And Quivering Ecstasy Of Light, /
A Passion And Delicacy Of Roseate Fire
9. Along A Road Of Pure Interior Light, … /
His Soul Passed On, A Single Conscious Power …
10. His Spirit Was Made A Vessel Of Her Force
11. He Fell Down At Her Feet Unconscious, Prone
CANTO 15
THE KINGDOMS OF THE GREATER KNOWLEDGE
12. He Trod Along Extinction‘s Narrow Edge … /
And Mounted The Gold Ridge Of The World-Dream /
Between The Slayer And The Saviour Fires …
13. He Had Reached The Top Of All That Can Be Known … /
At Will He Lived In The Unoblivious Ray