Out of a seeming void and dark-winged sleep
Of dim inconscient infinity
A Power arose from the insentient deep,
A flame-whirl of magician Energy.
Some huge somnambulist Intelligence
Devising without thought process and plan
Arrayed the burning stars' magnificence,
The living bodies of beasts and the brain of man.
What stark Necessity or ordered Chance
Became alive to know the cosmic whole?
What magic of numbers, what mechanic dance
Developed consciousness, assumed a soul?
The darkness was the Omnipotent's abode,
Hood of omniscience, a blind mask of God.
27-7-1938
(revised 21-3-1944)
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 86 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Last Poems" - 8
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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