I passed into a lucent still abode <br />And saw as in a mirror crystalline <br />An ancient Force ascending serpentine <br />The unhasting spirals of the aeonic road. <br /> <br />Earth was a cradle for the arriving god <br />And man but a half-dark half-luminous sign <br />Of the transition of the veiled Divine <br />From Matter's sleep and the tormented load <br /> <br />Of ignorant life and death to the Spirit's light. <br />Mind liberated swam Light's ocean vast, <br />And life escaped from its grey tortured line; <br /> <br />I saw Matter illumining its parent Night. <br />The soul could feel into infinity cast <br />Timeless God-bliss the heart incarnadine.<br /><br />Sri Aurobindo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/evolution-revised/
