Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section Three. Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea

XXI

The light of the young dawn round every limb

Sweeps over thee as golden billows may;

Out every moment glimmers some new dream.

Thou in a swing of gold hast sat at play.

Like a great king thou robest thyself, O sea,

And pourst thy love in waves of precious gold,

Like a young royal lover lavishly

Chasing my heart with wealth through every fold.

And I to thee a youthful soul have brought

Full of the dawn to lay it at thy feet.

A wreath of lilies gold my hands have wrought,

For thy rich golden neck a carcanet.

We two together bound shall lie and gleam

Golden with dawn in solitudes of dream.