SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XXIII

Sleep, sleep through clouded moons, O sea, at last

Under a lonely sky; the eyelids close

Wearied of song. Held are the regions fast;

Mute in the hushed and luminous world repose.

I sit upon thy hither shore, O main,

My gaze is on thy face. Yet sleep, O sleep!

My heart is trembling with a soundless strain,

My soul is watching by thy slumber deep.

When shall I know thee who thou art, O friend?

When wilt thou wake? with what grand paean vast?

Lo, I will wait for thee. Thou at the end

Stretch out thy arms in some dim eve at last.