SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XIV

The day is filled with clouds and dusk and grey.

Wave sobbing falls on wave; there flowers, there rocks

A pain unquiet in their broken shocks.

Trembling there moans a large lament today.

The heavens are filled with dusk and sad and grey.

An endless outcry fills my soul today.

Is’t joy? is’t pain? Are these the depths of love!

Troubled, restless, peering with wild crests above,

What is it cries, what yearns in thee this day,

O heart? Thy heavens are full of dusk and grey.