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Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

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

Creation1

Since2 Thou hadst all eternity to amuse,

O sculptor of the living shapes of earth3,

O dramatist of death and life and birth,

World-artist revelling in forms and hues,

Hast Thou shaped the marvel of the whirling spheres,4

A scientist passing Nature through his tubes,

And played with numbers, measures, theorems, cubes,

O mathematician Mind that never errs,

Building a universe from5 Thy theories?

Protean is Thy spirit of delight6,

Craftsman minute and7 architect of might,

World-adept8 of a thousand mysteries.

Or forged9 some deep Necessity, not Thy whim,

Fate and Inconscience and the net10 of Time?

 

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: The Conscious Inconscient

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2 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: Because

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3 In 1972 ed. this line is placed after the next one

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4 In 21972 ed. this and next three lines run:

A mathematician Mind that never errs,

Thou hast played with theorems, numbers, measures, cubes,

Passed cells, electrons, molecules through Thy tubes,

World-forces for Thy Science’s ministers,

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5 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: And made a universe of

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6 'In 1972 ed. this line is placed after the next one

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7 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: an

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8 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: An adept

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9 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: built

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10 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: snare

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