Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

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

The Infinite Adventure

On the waters of a nameless Infinite

My skiff is launched; I have left the human shore.

All fades behind me and I see before

The unknown abyss and one pale pointing light.

An unseen Hand controls my rudder. Night

Walls up the sea in a black corridor,–

An inconscient Hunger’s lion plaint and roar

Or the ocean sleep of a dead Eremite.

I feel the greatness of the Power I seek

Surround me; below me are its¹ giant deeps,

Beyond, the invisible height no soul has trod.

I shall be merged in the Lonely and Unique

And wake into a sudden blaze of God,

The marvel and rapture of the Apocalypse.

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 the (variant mentioned in 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5)

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