Revelation

A poem by Sri Aurobindo


Revelation

Someone leaping from the rocks
Past me ran with wind-blown locks
Like a startled bright surmise
Visible to mortal eyes,—
Just a cheek of frightened rose
That with sudden beauty glows,
Just a footstep like the wind
And a hurried glance behind,
And then nothing,—as a thought
Escapes the mind ere it is caught.
Someone of the heavenly rout
From behind the veil ran out.



Part III : Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) > Poems from Ahana and Other Poems   



NOTES FROM EDITOR

Circa 1900-1906. A draft of this poem, entitled “The Vision”, is found in the manuscript notebook that contains “Uloupie” and other poems included in Part Two. This draft differs considerably from the version found in the typed manuscript of 1904-6, which was used as the basis of the text published in Ahana and Other Poems.