Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
CWSA.- Volume 2
Part Two. Baroda
Short Poems from Manuscripts, c.
1900 – 1901
A Doubt
Many boons the new years make us
But the old world’s gifts were three,
Dove of Cypris, wine of Bacchus,
Pan’s sweet pipe in Sicily.
Love, wine, song, the core of living
Sweetest, oldest, musicalest.
These, Life’s first, proved also best?
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.