SRI AUROBINDO
Collected Poems
SHORT POEMS — 1895-1908
A tree beside the sandy river-beach
Holds up its topmost boughs
Like fingers towards the skies they cannot reach,
Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.
This is the soul of man. Body and brain
Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.
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1908
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Exact
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