Complete Works. Rabindranath Tagore

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       With the shadow of my passion have I darkened your eyes,

       Haunter of the depth of my gaze!

       I have caught you and wrapt you, my love, in the net of my music.

       You are my own, my own, Dweller in my deathless dreams!

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      My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.

       They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars.

       My songs are lost in their depths.

       Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity.

       Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.

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      Tell me if this be all true, my lover, tell me if this be true.

       When these eyes flash their lightning the dark clouds in your breast make stormy answer.

       Is it true that my lips are sweet like the opening bud of the first conscious love?

       Do the memories of vanished months of May linger in my limbs?

       Does the earth, like a harp, shiver into songs with the touch of my feet?

       Is it then true that the dewdrops fall from the eyes of night when I am seen, and the morning light is glad when it wraps my body round?

       Is it true, is it true, that your love travelled alone through ages and worlds in search of me?

       That when you found me at last, your age-long desire found utter peace in my gentle speech and my eyes and lips and flowing hair?

       Is it then true that the mystery of the Infinite is written on this little forehead of mine?

       Tell me, my lover, if all this be true.

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      I love you, beloved. Forgive me my love.

       Like a bird losing its way I am caught.

       When my heart was shaken it lost its veil and was naked.

       Cover it with pity, beloved, and forgive me my love.