SRI AUROBINDO

Collected Poems

SHORT POEMS — FRAGMENTS

The Cosmic Man

I look across the world and no horizon walls my gaze;

I see Paris and Tokio and New York,

I see the bombs bursting on Barcelona and on Canton streets.

Man's numberless misdeeds and rare good deeds take place within my

single self.

I am the beast he slays, the bird he feeds and saves.

The thoughts of unknown minds exalt me with their thrill,

I carry the sorrow of millions in my lonely breast.

1938.09.25

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