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Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry, c. 1927 – 1947
Six Poems

In Horis Aeternum

 

A far sail on the unchangeable monotone of a slow slumbering sea,

A world of power hushed into symbols of hue, silent unendingly;

Over its head like a gold ball the sun tossed by the gods in their play

Follows its curve,– a blazing eye of Time watching the motionless day.
 

Here or otherwhere,– poised on the unreachable abrupt, snow-solitary ascent

Earth aspiring lifts to the illimitable Light, then ceases broken and spent,

Or on1 the glowing expanse, arid, fiery and austere, of the desert’s hungry soul,–

A breath, a cry, a glimmer from Eternity’s face, in a fragment the mystic Whole.
 

Moment-mere, yet with all Eternity packed, lone, fixed, intense,

Out of the ring of these hours that dance and die caught by the spirit in sense,

In the greatness of a man, in music’s outspread wings, in a touch, in a smile, in a sound,

Something that waits, something that wanders and settles not, a Nothing that was all and is found.

 

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.

1 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: in

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