SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

VII

Behold, the perfect-gloried dawn has come

Far-floating from eternity her home.

Her limbs are clad in silver light of dreams,

Her brilliant influence on the water streams,

And in that argent flood to one white theme

Are gathering all the hues and threads of dream.

Tricked with her fire the heavens richly fill;

To an eternal chant the winds are still;

And all thy bosom’s deep unquiet taken

Thou hast wrung out and into melody shaken,

And all the sounds that stirred the earth so long

Are called into a wordless trance of song.

O minstrel of infinity! What world

Soundless has known that music? What ether curled

In voiceless sleep? Where are those notes withdrawn?

Into the hush of what eternal dawn?