Overhead Poetry

5

Harmonies

Unfathomed harmonies roll, drowning our sight

In purple of their passionate abyss—

A superhuman solitude of night

Sprung from a deep where all the waves are bliss.

O waves divine, dark to our shuddering eyes,

You float a fire that glooms each common glow!

Sweep over foundering thought your rhythmic skies

Until we gain some marvellous earth below.

There still the pure Atlantis shall be found

Of rapture lost by souls unluminous:

There rings of silver memories surround

An empty throne of gold awaiting us.

Sri Aurobindo's Comment

"It is more mental than usual—but the vision and expression are there. The first stanza is the most powerful, a Higher Mind movement; lines 7, 8 belong to the same category—though, as I say, the mental strain is more pronounced than it has been in recent poems. The other lines are colourful and imaginative.

"Its vision brings out a truth of spiritual experience with sufficient force and exactness, though not with the deeper intimacy that sometimes comes in from above. It has a perfection of its own which is considerable."

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