SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

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What is this play thou playest with my life?

How hast thou parted lids mind held so stiff

Against the vision, that like a bud shut long

My mind has opened only to thy song,

And all my life lies like a yearning flower

Hued, perfumed, quivering in thy murmurous power,

And all my days are grown an infinite strain

Of music sung by thee, O shoreless main?