SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

IX

All day within me only one music rings.

I have become a lyre of helpless strings,

And I am but a horn for thee to wind,

O vast musician! Take me, all thy mind

In light, in gloom, by day, by night express.

Into me, minstrel, breathe thy mightiness.

On solitary shores, in lonely skies,

In night’s huge sieges when the winds blow wild,

In many a lovely land of mysteries,

In many a shadowy realm, or where a child,

Dawn, bright and young, sweet unripe thoughts conceives,

Or through the indifferent calm desireless eves,

In magic night and magic light of thee,

Play on thy instrument, O Soul, O Sea.