SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XV

Today the heavens are sealed with clouds and blind,

A leaping madman comes the pathless wind,

The rains of deluge flee, a storm-tossed shade,

Over thy breast of gloom. Loud and dismayed

Thy lost enormous chant rolls purposeless

Seeking its end in an unregioned space.

O come, thou great mad sea, O surging come!

My breast defenceless mates thy dolorous foam.

Darkness the heavens, the wind doom’s signal breath,

I shall float on through thee or sink in death.