Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Fragment ID: 20346
There Love fulfilled her gold and roseate dreams
And Strength her crowned and mighty reveries.1
“Gold and roseate dreams” cannot be changed. “Muse” would make it at once artificial. “Dreams” alone is the right word there. “Reveries” also cannot be changed, especially as it is not any particular “reverie” that is meant. Also, “dream” at the beginning of a later line departs into another idea and is appropriate in its place; I see no objection to this purposeful repetition. Anyway the line cannot be altered. The only concession I can make to you is to alter the first.2
1948
1 P.235
2 Adoring blue heaven with their happy dreams.
This line on the same page 234 ends now with the word “hymn”.