Who art thou that camest
Bearing the occult name,
Wings of regal darkness
Eyes of an unborn flame?
Like the august uprising
Of a forgotten sun
Out of the caverned midnight
Fire-trails of wonder run.
Captured the heart renouncing
Tautness of passion-worn strings
Allows the wide-wayed sweetness
Of free supernal things.
22-3-1944
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 156 in "Les poèmes de Sri
Aurobindo" (bilingual edition)
also in "More Poems" - 48
all published by Sri
Aurobindo Ashram - Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA
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