Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

II. Sonnets
Undated

Our godhead calls us¹

Our² godhead calls³ us in⁴ unrealised things.

Asleep in the wide fields⁵ of destiny,

A world guarded by Silence’ rustling wings

Sheltered⁶ their fine impossibility.

But part, but⁷ quiver the cerulean⁸ gates,

Close⁹ splendours look into our dreaming eyes,

We bear proud deities and magnificent fates;

Faces and hands come near from Paradise.

What shone thus far above is here in us;¹⁰

Bliss unattained our future’s birthright is;

Beauty of our dim soul¹¹ is¹² amorous;

We are the heirs of infinite widenesses.

The impossible is the hint of what shall be,¹³

Mortal the door to immortality.

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: The Call of the Impossible

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² 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: A

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³ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: moves

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⁴ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: to

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⁵ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: folds

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⁶ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Shelters

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⁷ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: parting

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⁸ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: caerulean

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⁹ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Strange

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¹⁰ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: What shines above, waits darkling here in us:

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¹¹ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: souls

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¹² 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: grows

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¹³ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: our mask of things to be,

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