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
• Sri Aurobindo Poetry

  Reference: # 103 in “Les poèmes de Sri Aurobindo” (bilingual edition)
  also in “Last Poems” – 19
  all published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram – Pondicherry