Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry, c. 1927 – 1947
Poems

Moon of Two Hemispheres

A gold moon-raft floats and swings slowly

And it casts a fire of pale holy blue light

On the dragon tail aglow of the faint night

That glimmers far,– swimming,

The illumined shoals of stars skimming,

Overspreading earth and drowning the heart in sight

With the ocean depths and breadths of the Infinite.

A gold moon-ship sails or drifts ever

In our spirit’s skies and halts never, blue-keeled,

And it throws its white-blue fire on this grey field,

Night’s dragon loop,– speeding,

The illumined star-thought sloops leading

To the Dawn, their harbour home, to the Light unsealed,

To the sun-face Infinite, the Untimed revealed.

Earlier edition of this work: Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 5.- Collected Poems.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 625 p.