A bare impersonal hush is now my mind,
A world of sight clear and inimitable,
A volume of silence by a Godhead signed,
A greatness pure, virgin of will.
Once on its pages Ignorance could write
In a scribble of intellect the blind guess of Time
And cast gleam-messages of ephemeral light,
A food for souls that wander on Nature’s rim.
But now I listen to a greater Word
Born from the mute unseen omniscient Ray:
The Voice that only Silence’ ear has heard
Leaps missioned from an eternal glory of Day.
All turns from a wideness and unbroken peace
To a tumult of joy in a sea of wide release.
18/19-9-1939
Sri Aurobindo
Reference: # 103 in “Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo” (bilingual edition)
also in “Last Poems” – 19
all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Pondicherry
diffusion by SABDA