PRAYER

There is no lack of love in Thee,

But, O sweet Splendour, bless

My proud heart with a penury

Of dedicated emptiness.

Thy blue and gold and silver light

Can never cease to drop,

For Thou hast generously made

All heaven a wide inverted cup.

'Tis we are shut in outward self

Nor deepen eyes to see

That dawn and vesper, noon and night

Are pouring Thy divinity.

Sri Aurobindo's Comment

"It is beautiful as well as simple and very felicitous in its suggestiveness."

To judge from the turn of the comment, one may guess the source of the lines to be jointly the psychic and the inner mind.

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