SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XXXVIII

Here there is light,– is it darkness on thy farther shore?

Thither my heart upon thy waters ferry o’er.

Something there rings from that far space;

I know not what its strains express,

Whether ’tis light that sings or darkness cries upon thy shore.

There will I go, my eyes shall see,

My soul shall hear unfalteringly

Anthems of light or strains of darkness on that farther shore.

The songs of this side all are known,

My heart has cherished every tone;

Of these I’ll weave remembered garlands on thy far-off shore.

Take me, O mighty sea, across thy long dividing roar.