SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

IV

The flute of dawn has rung out on the sea,

And in a holiday of festal glee

The radiant sunbeams dally and happily stream:

How on thy body they wallow, laugh and gleam!

Flowers blown in song on a bright welter cast!

The riches of sunlight quiver along thy vast

Sweet tumult, kindle the world thy chantings hold,

Or, rocking, for thy feet are chains of gold.

Now has thy cry become a bird of sound,

And on the wings, the throbbing breast around

A dream of gold is smeared; in my heart’s skies

The beautiful vagrant making springtide flies.

There wings the floating mighty creature, joys

Threading and lights, a glory and a voice.