SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XVII

When thy enormous wind has filled my breast,

Torn sail and broken rudder shall have rest.

My soul shall refugeless, a sinking boat,

Go down in thy fierce seas nor wish to float.

I under thy brow of great destruction’s frown

In the eternal darkness shall lie down

Upon that other coast remote and dumb.

Though in the image of death today thou come,

My heart keeps open for thee thy house, this breast.

O king, O sea, enter and dwell and rest.