Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section Three. Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea

XV

Today the heavens are sealed with clouds and blind,

A leaping madman comes the pathless wind,

The rains of deluge flee, a storm-tossed shade,

Over thy breast of gloom. Loud and dismayed

Thy lost enormous chant rolls purposeless

Seeking its end in an unregioned space.

O come, thou great mad sea, O surging come!

My breast defenceless mates thy dolorous foam.

Darkness the heavens, the wind doom’s signal breath,

I shall float on through thee or sink in death.