SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

II

I lean to thee a listening ear

And thy immense refrain I hear,

O Ocean circled with the lights of morn.

What word is it thou sing’st? what tune

My heart is filled with, and it soon

Must overflow? What mystical unborn

Spirit is singing in thy white foam-caves?

What voice turns heaven to music from thy waves?