I have drunk deep of God’s own libertySri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
SABCL - Volume 5
II. Sonnets
1930–1950
Immortality
I have drunk deep of God’s own liberty
From which an occult sovereignty derives:
Hidden in an earthly garment that survives,
I am the worldless being vast and free.
A moment stamped with that supremacy
Has rescued me from cosmic hooks and gyves;
Abolishing death and time my nature lives
In the deep heart of immortality.
God’s contract signed with Ignorance is torn;
Time has become the Eternal’s endless year,
My soul’s wide self of living infinite Space1
Outlines its body luminous and unborn
Behind the earth-robe; under the mask2 grows clear
The mould of an imperishable face.
Later edition of this work: The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo.- Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 2.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2009.- 751 p.
1 My soul, the living self of infinite Space,
2 earth. In 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: earth-mask