Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

SABCL - Volume 5

VI. Poems in New Metres

Soul, my soul

Soul, my soul, reascend over the edge of life,–

Far, far from¹ the din burn into tranquil skies,

Cross bright ranges of mind measureless², visioned, white;

Thoughts sail down as if ships carrying bales of light,

Truth’s form-robes by the Seers woven from spirit-threads,

From wide havens where³ luminous argosies,

Gold-robed Wisdom’s divine traffic and merchandise;

But there⁴ pause not but go far beyond⁵

Where thy natural home motionless vast and mute

Waits thy tread; on a throne facing infinity

Thought-nude, void of the world, one with the silence be.

Sole, self-poised and unmoved thou shalt behold below

Hierarchies and domains, godheads and potencies,

Titans, demons and men each in his cosmic role;

Midst all these in the lone⁶ centre of forces spun,

Fate there under thy feet turning the wheels of Time,

The World Law thou shalt know⁷ mapped in its codes sublime,

Yet thyself shalt remain viewless⁸, eternal, free.

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: out of

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² 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: murmurless

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³ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: above

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⁴ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: then

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⁵ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: beyond Space and Time

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⁶ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: live

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⁸ 2009 ed. CWSA, vol.2: ruleless

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