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Sri Aurobindo

The Cosmic Man

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I look across the world and no horizon walls my gaze;
I see Paris and Tokio* and NewYork,
I see the bombs bursting on Barcelona and on Canton Streets.
Man's numberless misdeeds and rare good deeds take place within my single
self.

I am the beast he slays, the bird he feeds and saves.
The thoughts of unknown minds exalt me with their thrill,
I carry the sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.

(*Tokyo is spelled that way in the poem.)

25-9-1938

Sri Aurobindo

Reference: # 93 in "Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "More Poems" - 55
and "Collected Poems" - 120
all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA

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