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Collected Poems Vol. 2 of CWSA 751 pages 2009 Edition
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All poems in English including sonnets, lyrical poems, narrative poems, and metrical experiments in various forms.

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Sri Aurobindo

This volume consists of all poems in English including sonnets, lyrical poems, narrative poems, and metrical experiments in various forms. All such poems published by Sri Aurobindo during his lifetime are included here, as well as poems found among his manuscripts after his passing. Sri Aurobindo worked on these poems over the course of seven decades. The first one was published in 1883 when he was ten; a number of poems were written or revised more than sixty years later, in the late 1940s.

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo (CWSA) Collected Poems Vol. 2 751 pages 2009 Edition
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The Fire King and the Messenger

THE FIRE KING
O soul who com'st fire-mantled from the earth
Into the silence of the seven skies,
Art thou an heir of the spiritual birth?
Art thou an ancient guest of Paradise?

THE MESSENGER
I am the Messenger of the human race,
I am a Pioneer from death and night.
I am the nympholept of Beauty's face,
I am the hunter of the immortal Light.

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THE FIRE KING
What flame wearst thou that wraps thee with its power
Protecting from the Guardians of the Way?
What wanderer born from the eternal Hour?
What fragment of the inconceivable Ray?

THE MESSENGER
It is the fire of an awakened soul
Aspiring from death to reach Eternity,
The wings of sacrifice flaming to their goal,
The burning godhead of humanity.

THE FIRE KING
What seekst thou here, child of the transient ways?
Wouldst thou be free and still in endless peace?
Or gaze for ever on the Eternal's face,
Hushed in an incommunicable release?

THE MESSENGER
I claim for men the peace that shall not fail,
I claim for earth the unwounded timeless bliss,
I seek God-strength for souls that suffer in hell,
God-light to fill the ignorant abyss.

THE FIRE KING
Ascend no more with thy presumptuous prayer
But safe return to the forsaken globe,
Wake not heaven's Lightning from its slumber's lair
To clothe thee with the anguish of its robe.

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