I face earth's happenings with an equal soul;
In all are heard Thy steps: Thy unseen feet
Tread Destiny's pathways in my front. Life's whole
Tremendous theorem is Thou complete.
No danger can perturb my spirit's calm:
My acts are Thine; I do Thy works and pass;
Failure is cradled on Thy deathless arm,
Victory is Thy passage mirrored in Fortune's glass.
In this rude combat with the fate of man
Thy smile within my heart makes all my strength;
Thy force in me labours at its grandiose plan,
Indifferent to the Time-snake's crawling length.
No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.
Thy presence is my immortality.
20-9-1939
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 108 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Last Poems" - 24
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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