Sri Aurobindo
Collected Poems
CWSA.- Volume 2
Addendum. Pieces not included in CWSA
Fragment [3]
He passed the unbridged seas whose waters lap
The utmost promontories and escarped
Immobile cliffs; he passed the desolate drifts,
The solitary sands, the antres wild,
Memorials of a mute, unstoried age;
He passed the secret woodland, whence the palm
Aspired, albeit of origin obscure,
To kiss high heaven, and the banyan spread
Land-hungering tyrant, o’er full many a rood
His bannered pomp; the pestilent fens he passed,
The salt and unplumbed marshes, direful nest
Of unkempt fever and malarious plague,
And that swan-cradling pool, blue Kolar called
Set like a jewel in the earth’s brown throat.
The heady rout of Maruts rode amain
Ratri the Ethiope handmaid of the Moon.
This text was not included in CWSA and it was not compared with other editions. The text was taken from Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 27.- Supplement.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Asram, 1972.- 511 p.