SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

V

Upon what bosom shall I lay my bliss

Or whom enrich with all my welling tears,

The unguessed joy, the grief that nameless is

And will not be denied? All checks they pierce.

The riches of my bliss have broken in bloom,

And all my sorrow seeks melodious room.

How have they made of all my secret hours

A kingdom of strange singing in groves of flowers!

A mystic wind, a nameless trouble keeps

My spirit. All the load of my heart’s deeps

Where shall I rest, moved to thy passionate play,

O Ocean, upon this thy festal day?