SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XXVII

The sunbeams fall and kiss thy lips and gleam

Calm and profound like thy own majesty.

How all my million golden flowers of dream

Out of my soul thou hast drawn utterly,

And these thou wearest as a garland now;

I stand with empty hands upon thy shore.

Sing me one chant of thine! Ah, let it flow

An endless nectar and my soul explore

With echoes and with lights, and turn thy gaze

For ever and for ever on my days,

And from today, O Ocean without strand,

Thy song I’ll sing, wandering from land to land.