SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XXV

None is awake in all the world but I;

While the sun hesitated, I upstood

And met thee in a grandiose secrecy

To lave my soul in thy majestic flood.

Be outward songs the outward nature’s part!

These are for all and all their tones may hear.

There is a strain that fills the secret heart:

Reveal that music to my listening ear.

Therefore, O sea, O friend, I came alone,

That I might hear that rapture or that moan.