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    Stray Birds
    Stray Birds
    Stray Birds
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    Stray Birds

    By Rabindranath Tagore

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    1


    STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.


    And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.


    2


    O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.


    3


    THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.


    It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.


    4


    IT is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.


    5


    THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.


    6


    IF you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.


    7


    THE sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?


    8


    HER wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSai ePublications
    Release dateDec 27, 2016
    ISBN9781300044024
    Stray Birds
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    Rabindranath Tagore

    Rabindranath Tagore was born in May 1861. He was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works included numerous novels, short-stories, collection of songs, dance-drama, political and personal essays. Some prominent examples are Gitanjali (Song Offerings) , Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World). He died on 7th August 1941.

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      Book preview

      Stray Birds - Rabindranath Tagore

      CONTENTS

      Cover Image

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Begin Reading

      To

      T. HARA

      of

      Yokohama

      1

      STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.

      And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.

      2

      O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.

      3

      THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.

      It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

      4

      IT is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.

      5

      THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.

      6

      IF you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

      7

      THE sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?

      8

      HER wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

      9

      ONCE we dreamt that we were strangers.

      We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

      10

      SORROW is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees.

      11

      SOME unseen fingers, like idle breeze, are playing upon my heart the music of the ripples.

      12

      WHAT language is thine, O sea?

         The language of eternal question.

      "What language is thy answer, O sky?

         The language of eternal silence.

      13

      LISTEN, my heart, to the

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