Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Four. Calcutta and Chandernagore
Poems from Manuscripts, c. 1909 – 1910

Perfect thy motion

Perfect thy motion ever within me,

Master of mind.

Grey of the brain, flash of the lightning,

Brilliant and blind,

These thou linkest, the world to mould,

Writing the thought in a scroll of gold

Violet lined.

Tablet of brain thou hast made for thy writing,

Master divine.

Calmly thou writest or full of thy grandeur

Flushed as with wine.

Then with a laugh thou erasest the scroll,

Bringing another, like waves that roll

And sink supine.

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.