{"id":812,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=812"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:35","slug":"35-fragments-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/35-fragments-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-35_Fragments.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nS<\/font>UPPLEMENT TO
\n<\/font>V<\/font>OLUME<\/font> – 
\n<\/span>5<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\nCOLLECTED  
\n<\/span>POEMS<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n

The
\n following poems have all been taken from Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts. The
\n Fragments are culled from the earliest manuscript in our possession, dating
\n from the later part (1890 -1892) of his student days in England; the sonnets
\n and the lyric are from the author’s Baroda Period.
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\n\t
\nFRAGMENTS<\/b><\/font> <\/font>
\n\t
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\t<\/b><\/font>
\n<\/span>Blue lotus of the sea, on her large eyes <\/p>\n

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Ocean
\nthe tincture of nocturnal seas <\/p>\n

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Bestowed,
\nthe sweetness of her summer voice,<\/p>\n

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The flow of her green-rippling noonday laugh: <\/p>\n

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Night
\nenvied her long tresses and her cheeks <\/p>\n

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Were
\nwild autumnal olives lightly flushed<\/p>\n

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With
\nthe shadow of a dying rose.
\n 
\n
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\n<\/font><\/p>\n

 We are no wizened hermits. . . . . . . .<\/p>\n

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 \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..whose fumbling hands<\/p>\n

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 Turn pale religious leaves, forgetting earth
\n 
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

And
\nthis sweet natural light, this common air <\/p>\n

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That
\nyet is precious, who with idiot scorn <\/p>\n

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And
\nlunatic austerity repulse<\/p>\n

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\nThe emparadising virtue of the soft<\/p>\n

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\nAnd roseate circle of a girl’s embrace.<\/p>\n

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\nNor know they lofty pride, nor golden words<\/p>\n

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Of
\nwisest poets, nor to wield a spear,<\/p>\n

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\nTo loose the silent winged snake of war, <\/p>\n

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To
\nwrestle knee to knee with grisly death.<\/p>\n

By meditation and insipid sweets<\/p>\n

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\nOf piety and goodness, they aspire<\/p>\n

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\nTo passionless perfection, death in life<\/p>\n

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Pale
\nnothingness. But we the stormy brood;<\/p>\n

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 <\/font><\/span>Whom
\nOcean to imperious incest bore, <\/p>\n

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Were
\nin the waste and ruinous conflict rocked <\/p>\n

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Of
\nwarring seas, and with thy nurturing milk <\/p>\n

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We
\ndrank the joy of battle, high disdain <\/p>\n

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That
\nspurns obedience and the thirst unslaked <\/p>\n

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Indulgence
\nprompts from sin to fiery sin.<\/p>\n

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\nHe
\npassed the unbridged seas whose waters lap
\nThe utmost promontories and escarped<\/p>\n

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 <\/font><\/span>Immobile
\ncliffs; he passed the desolate drifts, <\/p>\n

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The
\nsolitary sands, the antres wild,
\nMemorials of a mute, unstoried age;
\nHe passed the secret woodland, whence the palm <\/p>\n

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Aspired,
\nalbeit of origin obscure,
\nTo kiss high heaven, and the banyan spread<\/p>\n

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 <\/font><\/span>Land-hungering
\ntyrant, o’er <\/i>full many a rood<\/p>\n

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 <\/font><\/span>His
\nbannered pomp; the pestilent fens he passed, <\/p>\n

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The
\nsalt and unplumbed marshes, direful nest<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

Of
\nunkempt fever and malarious plague,
\nAnd that swan-cradling pool, blue Kolar called<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

Set
\nlike a jewel in the earth’s brown throat.
\nAll these he passed…<\/p>\n

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The heady
\nrout of Maruts rode amain<\/font><\/p>\n

Ratri the
\nEthiope handmaid of the Moon.
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n      <\/span><\/font>  <\/font>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>Page-128<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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