I walked on the high-wayed Seat of Solomon
Where Shankaracharya's tiny temple stands
Facing Infinity from Time's edge, alone
On the bare ridge ending earth's vain romance.
Around me was a formless solitude:
All had become one strange Unnamable,
An unborn sole Reality world-nude,
Topless and fathomless, for ever still.
A Silence that was Being's only word,
The unknown beginning and the voiceless end
Abolishing all things moment-seen or heard,
On an incommunicable summit reigned,
A lonely Calm and void unchanging Peace
On the dumb crest of Nature's mysteries.
19-10-1939
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 130 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Last Poems" - 36
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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