SRI AUROBINDO

Translations

from Sanskrit and Other Languages

II. From Bengali

Chittaranjan Das

Songs of the Sea (Sagar Sangit)

XXVI

The sun has not yet risen. Luring night

Shelters thee still as with a robe of love.

Calm are thy lips, thy eyes have tranquil light.

Whether thou sleep or dream or wake or move.

In the last trance of darkness visible

How beautiful and calm thy gaze, O sea!

My speech, my song have suddenly grown still

In this enamoured twilight’s ecstasy.

Am I not as thy brother younger born?

Then sometimes turn a loving gaze, O sea.

The song that shakes thy bosom night and morn

Bid echo sometimes, Ocean, even in me.