Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 35

Fragment ID: 8213

Exposure to Christianity

[Lines from a poem submitted to Sri Aurobindo:]

Soul of poet, thine be quiet

Of the Virgin’s prayerful countenance ...

[Underlining “prayerful countenance”:]

Lord God! you bring me back to my childhood’s agonies in an English Nonconformist chapel.

11 September 1933