{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/ktm/ktm09.htm","path":"hin/ktm/ktm09.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/ktm/ktm09.htm","text":"The stars are blotted out,\n Clouds are covering clouds,\n It is darkness, vibrant, sonant.\n In the roaring whirling wind\n Are the souls of a million lunatics,--\n But loosed from the prison house,--\n Wrenching trees by the roots,\n Sweeping all from the path.\n The sea has joined the fray,\n And swirls up mountain-waves,\n To reach the pitchy sky.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Scattering plagues and sorrows,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dancing mad with joy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Come, Mother, Come! \n For Terror is thy name,\n Death is in Thy breath.\n And every shaking step\n Destroys a world for e\u2019er.\n Thou \"Time\" the All-Destroyer\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then come, O Mother, Come!\n \n Who can misery love,\n Dance in destruction's dance,\n And hug the form of Death,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To him the Mother comes.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0V.","title":"Kali the Mother: Kali the Mother","type":"page"}