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Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part One. Translations from Sanskrit
Section Four. Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

Miscellaneous Verses

The Hero’s Touch

Touched by one hero’s tread, how vibrating

Earth starts as if sun-visited, ablaze,

Vast, wonderful, young! Man’s colourless petty days

Bloom suddenly and seem a grandiose thing.