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Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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14 England and Baroda, 1883 – 1898<br />

Whose laughter dances like a gleam<br />

Of sunlight on a hidden stream<br />

That through a wooded way<br />

Runs suddenly into the perfect day.<br />

But what were Cymothea, placed<br />

Where like a silver star Myrtilla blooms?<br />

Such light as cressets cast<br />

In long and sun-lit rooms.<br />

Thy presence is to her<br />

As oak to juniper,<br />

Thy beauty as the gorgeous rose<br />

To privet by the lane that blows,<br />

Gold-crownèd blooms to mere fresh grass,<br />

Eternal ivy to brief blooms that pass.<br />

GLAUCUS<br />

But Florimel beside thee, sweet,<br />

Pales like a candle in the brilliant noon.<br />

Snowdrops are thy feet,<br />

Thy waist a crescent moon,<br />

And like a silver wand<br />

Thy body slight doth stand<br />

Or like a silver beech aspire.<br />

Thine arms are walls for white caresses,<br />

Thy mouth a tale of crimson kisses,<br />

Thine eyes two amorous treasuries of fire.<br />

To what shall poet liken thee?<br />

Art thou a goddess of the sea<br />

Purple-tressed and laughter-lipped<br />

From thy choric sisters slipped<br />

To wander on the flowery land?<br />

Or art thou siren on the treacherous sand<br />

Summer-voiced to charm the ear<br />

Of the wind-vext mariner?<br />

Ah! but what are these to thee,<br />

Brighter gem than knows the sea,

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