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Collected Poems - Sri Aurobindo Ashram

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680 Pondicherry, c. 1927 – 1947<br />

Here in the green of the forest<br />

Here in the green of the forest, lost in the stillness of Nature<br />

Long like lovers together alone with our hearts we had wandered,<br />

Hands linked, thoughts linked, listening mute to the voices of Silence,<br />

Light of the spaces, sovereign beauty, comrade of rapture.<br />

Golden the tresses that fell on her shoulders, a mantle of sunlight,<br />

Golden the thoughts came cast from her lips like jewels of wonder,<br />

Golden the smile in her heart and her radiant ripple of laughter.<br />

First in the silence we knew each other; the eyes were the gateways<br />

Opening soul into soul and spirit was bare to the spirit.<br />

Speech only covers the mind and the heart when it strives to reveal<br />

them!<br />

Silence, the wizard interpreter, drew us closer to oneness,<br />

First in the silence we felt our heart-throbs beating together.<br />

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As in the body a man and a woman marry and mingle,<br />

Hearts locked, limbs locked, twisted to one by the serpent of passion,<br />

So our spirits were locked in each other, hurled into oneness,<br />

Hurtled and hurled on a rapid and violent ocean of rapture.

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