Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

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

The Three Cries of Deiphobus

Awake, awake, O sleeping men of Troy,

That sleep and know not in the grasp of Hell

I perish in the treacherous lonely night

To foes betrayed, environed and undone.

O Trojans, will ye sleep until the doom

Have slipped its leash and bark upon your doors?

Not long will ye, unless in Pluto’s realm,

Have slumber, since forsaken among foes

I drink the bitter cup of lonely death

Unheeded and from helping faces far.

O Trojans, Trojans, yet again I call!

Swift help we need or Ilion’s days are done.

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.