On Poetry
THEME/S
You fear clay's solid rapture will be gone
If once your love dives deep to the Unknown—
But how shall body not seem a hollow space
When the soul bears eternity's embrace?—
Eternity which to the outward glance
Is some unmoving painted sea of trance,
Lifeless, an artist's dream—but suddenly
Those phantom colours wake and the whole sea
Hurls from its pictured distance, drowning the eyes
In a passionate world of dense infinities!
No longer will you talk of shadowy bliss:
With measureless life God comes, and our flesh-form
Sways like a weed in His enfolding storm.
Sri Aurobindo's Comment
"It is extremely fine and quite revealing and effective."
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