Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
CWSA.- Volume 2
Part One. England and Baroda 1883 – 1898
Songs to
Myrtilla
The Lost Deliverer
Pythian he came; repressed beneath his heel
The hydra of the world with bruisèd head.
Vainly, since Fate’s immeasurable wheel
Could parley with a straw. A weakling sped
The bullet when to custom’s usual night
We fell because a woman’s faith was light.
Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.