SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

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 pour’st 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.