Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1934 – 1947

All here is Spirit

All here is Spirit self-moved eternally

For Matter is its seeming or its form,

A finite motion of Infinity

Built up by energy’s electric storm,

A flux of solid instability

Whirled into shape by a tremendous Force

That labours out the world’s fabric endlessly,

Creates and then destroys without remorse

Titan and worm, the dew-drop and the sea,

Our fragile bodies like the aeoned star,

But through it all remains immortally

The secret spirit we for ever are.

Matter is Spirit’s semblance glamorous

Self-woven for its own field and robe and house.

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