Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

II. Sonnets
Undated

Evolution

All is not finished in the Unseen’s¹ decree!

A mind beyond our mind demands our ken;

A life of unimagined harmony

Awaits, concealed, the grasp of unborn men.

The crude beginnings of the lifeless earth

And² mindless stirrings of the plant and tree

Prepared our thought; thought for a godlike birth

Broadens the mould of our mortality.

A might no human will or³ force could⁴ gain,

A knowledge seated in eternity,

A joy⁵ beyond our struggle and our pain

Is this earth-hampered creature’s destiny.⁶

O Thou who climbest⁷ to mind from the dull stone,

Turn to⁸ the miracled summits yet unwon.

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: unseen

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³ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: nor

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⁴ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: can

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⁵ bliss

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⁶ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Are the high pinnacles of our destiny.

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⁷ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: climb’dst

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⁸ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Face now

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