Sri Aurobindo

Collected Poems

CWSA.- Volume 2

Part Seven. Pondicherry
Sonnets from Manuscripts, c. 1934 – 1947

The Inner Fields

There is a brighter ether than this blue

Pretence of an enveloping heavenly vault,

A deeper greenness than this laughing assault¹

Of emerald rapture pearled with tears of dew.

Immortal spaces of caerulean² hue

Are in our reach and fields without this fault

Of drab brown earth and streams that never halt

In their deep murmur which white flowers strew

Floating like stars upon a strip of sky.

This world behind is made of truer stuff

Than the manufactured tissue of earth’s grace.

There we can walk and see the gods go by

And sip from Hebe’s cup nectar enough

To make for us heavenly limbs and deathless face.

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.

¹ Royaler investiture than this massed assault (the variant is mentioned in 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5)

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² 1972 ed. SABCL, vol.5: cerulean

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