Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
SABCL - Volume 5
II. Sonnets
Undated
The2 dumb Inconscient drew life’s stumbling maze;
A night of all things, packed and infinite,
It made our consciousness a torch that plays
Between the abyss3 and a supernal Light;
It framed our mind4 a lens of segment sight,
Piecing out inch by inch the world’s huge mass,
And reason a small hard theodolite
Measuring unreally the measureless ways.
Yet is the dark Inconscient whence come5 all,
The self-same Power that shines on high unwon;
Our night shall be a sky purpureal,
The6 torch transmute to a vast godhead’s sun.
Man is a narrow bridge, a call that grows,7
His soul the dim bud of God’s flaming rose.
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 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Man the Mediator
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4 Alternative: It made our mind
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6 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Our
7 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Rooted in mire heavenward man’s nature grows,–