The Essential Works of Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore
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Название: The Essential Works of Tagore

Автор: Rabindranath Tagore

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       When and Why

       Defamation

       The Judge

       Playthings

       The Astronomer

       Clouds and Waves

       The Champa Flower

       Fairyland

       The Land of the Exile

       The Rainy Day

       Paper Boats

       The Sailor

       The Further Bank

       The Flower-School

       The Merchant

       Sympathy

       Vocation

       Superior

       The Little Big Man

       Twelve O'Clock

       Authorship

       The Wicked Postman

       The Hero

       The End

       The Recall

       The First Jasmines

       The Banyan Tree

       Benediction

       The Gift

       My Song

       The Child-Angel

       The Last Bargain

      THE HOME

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      I paced alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.

      The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.

      Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.

      His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm, the cocoa-nut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.

      I stopped for a moment in my lonely way under the starlight, and saw spread before me the darkened earth surrounding with her arms countless homes furnished with cradles and beds, mothers' hearts and evening lamps, and young lives glad with a gladness that knows nothing of its value for the world.

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      On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

      The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.

      They build their houses with sand, and they play with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

      They know not how to swim, they know not how to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and scatter them again. They seek not for hidden treasures, they know not how to cast nets.

      The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach.

      On the seashore of endless worlds children meet. Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is the great meeting of children.

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      The sleep that flits on baby's eyes--does anybody know from where it comes? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling where, in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit СКАЧАТЬ