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Arisen to voiceless unattainable peaks
I meet no end, for all is boundless He,
An absolute Joy the wide-winged spirit seeks,
A Might, a Presence, an Eternity.
In the inconscient dreadful dumb Abyss
Are heard the heart-beats of the Infinite.
The insensible midnight veils His trance of bliss,
A fathomless sealed astonishment of Light.
In His ray that dazzles our vision everywhere,
Our half-closed eyes seek fragments of the One:
Only the eyes of Immortality dare
To look unblinded on that living Sun.
Yet are our souls the Immortal’s selves within,
Comrades and powers and children of the Unseen.
October 1939
Reference: # 134 in “Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo” (bilingual edition)
also in “Last Poems” – 40
all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA