Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

II. Sonnets
Undated

Discoveries of Science I

Only by electric hordes your¹ world is run?²

But they are motes³ and spark-whirls of a Light,

A Fire of which your⁴ nebula and your sun⁵

Are glints and flame-drops scattered eremite.

Veiled⁶ by the unseen⁷ Light act⁸ other Powers,

An Air of endless movement⁹ unbegun

Expanding and contracting in Time-hours¹⁰,

And the intangible ether of the One.

These surface findings – screen-phenomenon –¹¹

Are Nature’s offered reasons¹² but¹³ behind

Her occult mysteries lurk¹⁴ safe unknown

To¹⁵ the crude handling of the empiric Mind.

All yet¹⁶ discovered are but mire¹⁷ and trace

Of the eternal Energy in her race.

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.

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² 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: I saw the electric stream on which is run

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³ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: The world turned motes

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⁴ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: the

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⁵ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: sun

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⁶ And veiled

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⁷ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: viewless

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⁸ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: worked

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⁹ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: movement endless

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¹⁰ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Time’s hours

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¹¹ These things, a front, a screen-phenomenon,
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The surface finds, the screen-phenomenon,

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¹² 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: ransom

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¹³ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: while

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¹⁴ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: lie

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¹⁵ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: From

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¹⁶ Your truths

2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: Our truths

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¹⁷ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: dust

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