Complete Works. Rabindranath Tagore

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      The razor-blade is proud of its keenness

       when it sneers at the sun.

      The butterfly has leisure to love the lotus,

       not the bee busily storing honey.

      Child, thou bring to my heart

       the babble of the wind and the water,

       the flower's speechless secrets, the clouds' dreams,

       the mute gaze of wonder of the morning sky.

      The rainbow among the clouds may be great

       but the little butterfly among the bushes is greater.

      The mist weaves her net round the morning,

       captivates him, and makes him blind.

      The Morning Star whispers to Dawn,

       "Tell me that you are only for me."

       "Yes," she answers,

       "And also only for that nameless flower."

      The sky remains infinitely vacant

       for earth there to build its heaven with dreams.

      Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt

       at being told that it is a fragment

       awaiting perfection.

      Let the evening forgive the mistakes of the day

       and thus win peace for herself.

      Beauty smiles in the confinement of the bud,

       in the heart of a sweet incompleteness.

      Your flitting love lightly brushed with its wings

       my sun-flower

       and never asked if it was ready to surrender its honey.

      Leaves are silences

       around flowers which are their words.

      The tree bears its thousand years

       as one large majestic moment.

      My offerings are not for the temple at the end of the road,

       but for the wayside shrines

       that surprise me at every bend.

      Your smile, my love, like the smell of a strange flower,

       is simple and inexplicable.

      Death laughs when the merit of the dead is exaggerated

       for it swells his store with more than he can claim.

      The sigh of the shore follows in vain

       the breeze that hastens the ship across the sea.

      Truth loves its limits,

       for there it meets the beautiful.

      Between the shores of Me and Thee

       there is the loud ocean, my own surging self,

       which I long to cross.

      The right to possess boasts foolishly

       of its right to enjoy.

      The rose is a great deal more

       than a blushing apology for the thorn.

      Day offers to the silence of stars

       his golden lute to be tuned

       for the endless life.

      The wise know how to teach,

       the fool how to smite.

      The centre is still and silent in the heart

       of an eternal dance of circles.

      The judge thinks that he is just when he compares

       The oil of another's lamp

       with the light of his own.

      The captive flower in the King's wreath

       smiles bitterly when the meadow-flower envies her.

      Its store of snow is the hill's own burden,

       its outpouring if streams is borne by all the world.

      Listen to the prayer of the forest

       for its freedom in flowers.

      Let your love see me

       even through the barrier of nearness.

      The spirit of work in creation is there

       to carry and help the spirit of play.

      To carry the burden of the instrument,

       count the cost of its material,

       and never to know that it is for music,

       is the tragedy of deaf life.

      Faith is the bird that feels the light

       and sings when the dawn is still dark.

      I bring to thee, night, my day's empty cup,

       to be cleansed with thy cool darkness

       for a new morning's festival.

      The mountain fir, in its rustling,

       modulates the memory of its fights with the storm

       into a hymn of peace.

      God honoured me with his fight

       when I was rebellious,

       He ignored me when I was languid.

      The sectarian thinks

       that he has the sea

       ladled into his private pond.

      In the shady depth of life

       are the lonely nests of memories

       that shrink from words.

      Let my love find its strength

       in the service of day,

       its peace in the union of night.

      Life sends up in blades of grass

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