SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XI

My heart wings restless with this music’s pain,

Bird of some wonderful harmonious reign:

No time, no place it meets, touches no end,

But rests and flies in melody contained.

Song’s boundless regions have no isle preferred,

Its depths no plummet moment yet has found.

Memories and strange deep silences are heard

Here in thy solitude of shoreless sound.

Thou melody fathomless! O sea where floats

Song timeless! What were these immortal notes

To which my heart could silently disclose

The hidden petals of the eternal rose?