Out of a still Immensity all1 came!Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
SABCL - Volume 5
II. Sonnets
Undated
The Infinitesimal Infinite
Out of a still Immensity all1 came!
These million universes were to it
The poor light-bubbles of a trivial game,
A fragile glimmer in the Infinite.
It could not find its soul in all that vast:
It drew itself into a little speck
Infinitesimal, ignobly cast
Out of earth’s mud and slime strangely awake,–
A tiny plasm on2 a little3 globe
In the small system of a dwarflike sun,
A little life wearing the flesh for robe,
A little mind winged through wide space to run!
It lived, it knew, it saw its self sublime,
Deathless, outmeasuring Space, outlasting Time.
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: we
2 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: upon
3 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: casual