Now more and more the Epiphany within
Affirms on Nature’s soil His sovereign rights.
My mind has left its prison-camp of brain;
It pours, a luminous sea from spirit heights.
A tranquil splendour, waits my Force of Life
Couched in my heart, to do what He shall bid,
Poising wide wings like a great hippogriff
On which the gods of the empyrean ride.
My senses change into gold gates of bliss;
An ecstasy thrills through touch and sound and sight
Flooding the blind material sheath’s dull ease:
My darkness answers to His call of light.
Nature in me one day like Him shall sit
Victorious, calm, immortal, infinite.
22-9-1939
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 110 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "Last Poems" - 26
and "Collected Poems" - 144
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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