SRI AUROBINDO
Translations
from Sanskrit and Other Languages
IV. From Greek and Latin
Plato
Me whom the purple mead that Bromius owns
And girdles rent of amorous girls did please,
Now the inspired and curious hand decrees
That waked quick life in these quiescent stones,
To yield thee water pure. Thou lest the sleep
Yon perilous boy unchain, more softly creep.