One Day

A poem by Sri Aurobindo

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 poem  Circa 1932  Pub: 'Poems Past and Present (1946)'

One Day

One day, and all the half-dead is done,
One day, and all the unborn begun;
A little path and the great goal,
A touch that brings the divine whole.

Hill after hill was climbed and now,
Behold, the last tremendous brow
And the great rock that none has trod:
A step, and all is sky and God.



Part VI : Baroda and Pondicherry (Circa 1902-1936) > Poems Past and Present   



NOTES FROM EDITOR

Circa 1932. Sri Aurobindo wrote the first draft of this poem in the notebook containing drafts of the previous three poems, which Nolini Kanta Gupta uncovered and sent to him in 1932. This draft was lightly revised and later included in Poems Past and Present. There is one handwritten and one typed manuscript.





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