Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

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

Now I have borne¹

Now I have borne² Thy presence and Thy light,

Eternity assumes me and I am

A vastness of tranquillity and flame,

My heart a deep Atlantic of delight.

My life is a moving moment of Thy might

Carrying Thy vision’s sacred oriflamme

Inscribed with the white glory of Thy name

In the unborn silence of the Infinite.

My body is a jar of radiant peace,

The days a line across my timelessness,

My mind is made a voiceless breadth of Thee,

A lyre of muteness and a luminous sea;

Yet in each cell I feel Thy fire embrace,

A brazier of the seven ecstasies.

Earlier edition of this work: Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 1, No1 (1977, April).- p.19.

¹ A&R. 1977, 1: bourne

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² A&R. 1977, 1: bourne

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