{"id":1504,"date":"2013-07-13T01:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:35:17","slug":"23-who-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/05-collected-poems-volume-05\/23-who-vol-05-collected-poems-volume-05","title":{"rendered":"-23_Who.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n

\n
\nWho<\/font><\/span><\/b> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n\n\n
 <\/td>\n\n

In
\nthe blue of <\/i>the sky, in the green of the forest, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Whose
\nis the hand that has painted the glow? <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

When
\nthe winds were asleep in the womb of the ether, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Who
\nwas it roused them and bade them to blow?<\/p>\n

He is lost in the heart, in the cavern of Nature, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nis found in the brain where He builds up the thought:
\nIn the pattern and bloom of the flowers He is woven, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

In
\nthe luminous net of the stars He is caught.<\/p>\n

In the strength of a man, in the beauty of woman, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

In
\nthe laugh of a boy, in the blush of a girl;
\nThe hand that sent Jupiter spinning through heaven, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Spends
\nall its cunning to fashion a curl.<\/p>\n

These are His works and His veils and His shadows;
\n           
\n<\/span>But where is He then? by what name is He known?
\nIs He Brahma or Vishnu? a man or a woman?
\n           
\n<\/span>Bodied or bodiless? twin or alone?<\/p>\n

We have love for a boy who is dark and resplendent, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

A
\nwoman is lord of <\/i>us, naked and fierce.
\nWe have seen Him a-muse on the snow of the mountains, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

We
\nhave watched Him at work in the heart of the spheres.<\/p>\n

We will tell the whole world of His ways and His cunning: <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nhas rapture <\/i>of <\/i>torture and passion and pain;
\nHe delights in our sorrow and drives us to weeping, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Then
\nlures with His joy and His beauty again.<\/p>\n

All music is only the sound of His laughter; <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

All
\nbeauty the smile of His passionate bliss;
\nOur lives are His heart-beats, our rapture the bridal <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Of
\nRadha and Krishna, our love is their kiss.<\/p>\n

He is strength that is loud in the blare of the trumpets, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\nHe rides in the car and He strikes in the spears;
\nHe slays without stint and is full of compassion; <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nwars for the world and its ultimate years.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n <\/p>\n
\n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n

In
\nthe sweep of the worlds, in the surge of the ages, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Ineffable,
\nmighty, majestic and pure,
\nBeyond the last pinnacle seized by the thinker <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nis throned in His seats that for ever endure.<\/p>\n

The Master of man and his infinite Lover, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nis close to our hearts, had we vision to see;
\nWe are blind with our pride and the pomp of our passions, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

We
\nare bound in our thoughts where we hold ourselves free.<\/i><\/p>\n

It is He in the sun who is ageless and deathless, <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

And
\ninto the midnight His shadow is thrown;
\nWhen darkness was blind and engulfed within darkness,<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

He
\nwas seated within it immense and alone.
\n                                  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n  Reminiscence<\/a><\/font><\/span><\/b>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span><\/font>
\n
\n<\/span>My soul arose at dawn and,
\nlistening, heard
\nOne voice abroad, a solitary bird,
\nA song not master of its note, a cry
\nThat persevered into eternity.
\nMy soul leaned out into the dawn to hear
\nIn the world\u2019s solitude its winged compeer
\nAnd, hearkening what the Angel had to say,
\nSaw lustre in midnight and a secret day
\nWas opened to it. It beheld the stars
\nBorn from a thought and knew how being, prepares.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Then
\nI remembered how I woke from <\/i>sleep
\nAnd made the skies, built earth, formed Ocean deep.<\/span><\/p>\n

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