Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry, c. 1927 – 1947
Poems Written as Metrical Experiments

O pall of black Night

O pall of black Night painted with still gold stars,

Hang now thy folds, close, clinging against earth’s bars,

O dim Night!

Then Slumber shall come swinging¹ the unseen

Gates, and to lands guarded by a screen

Of strange light

Set out², my soul charioted on³ a swift dream

From earth escape slipping⁴ into the unknown gleam,

The Ray white.

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

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: free

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³ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: in

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⁴ 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: earth slipping

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