Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Two. Baroda
Short Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1900 – 1901

Epigram

If thou wouldst traverse Time with vagrant feet

Nor make the poles thy limit fill not then

Thy wallet with the fancy’s cloying sweet

Which is no stay to heaven-aspiring men,

But follow wisdom since alone the wise

Can walk through fire with unblinking eyes.

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.