Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
CWSA.- Volume 2
Part Seven. Pondicherry
Incomplete Poems from
Manuscripts, c. 1927 – 1947
Bugles of Light
Bugles of Light, bugles of Light, blare through the mist and the darkness1!
Children of Immortality, we march through the Abyss and the Shadow,
Over us hustle the feet of the Fates and the wings of Erinnys,
In front is the screech of the Death horn, behind the red-eyed monster hunts2 and howls the tornado.
Our steps search for the road and find the morass and the pitfall.
Follow the Gleam, follow the Gleam to the city of God and the pavements of Dream!
Bugles of Light, bugles of Light, shatter the heart of the Darkness!
Earlier edition of this work: Archives and Research: A biannual journal.- Volume 8, No1 (1984, April).- p.2
1 A&R. 1984, 1:
shatter the heart of the darkness
(blare through the [? mist] and the darkness. — as variant in footnotes)
2 A&R. 1984, 1: haunts
(Note in A&R): These two words doubtful