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| The Borderland - 9 I saw, in the twilight of flagging consciousness, My body floating down an ink-black stream With its mass of feelings, with its varied emotion, With its many-coloured life-long store of memories, With its flutesong. And as it drifted on and on Its outlines dimmed; and among familiar tree-shaded Villages on the banks, the sounds of evening Worship grew faint, doors were closed, lamps Were covered, boats were moored to the ghats. Crossings From either side of the stream stopped; night thickened; From the forest-branches fading birdsong offered Self-sacrifice to a huge silence. Dark formlessness settled over all diversity Of land and water. As shadow, as particles, my body Fused with endless night. I came to rest At the altar of the stars. Alone, amazed, I stared Upwards with hands clasped and said: 'Sun, you have removed Your rays: show now your loveliest, kindliest form That I may see the Person who dwells in me as in you.' . |
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| Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.
He also composed music and was a visual artist. The university
founded by Tagore is called Visva - Bharati University. It is
located 85 miles north of Calcutta at Shantiniketan. You can view
Tagore's paintings at Santiniketan. There are reproductions of
his drawings in the Rabindra Sadan Metro Station. The Tagore house
in Calcutta is a center for Indian dance, drama, music and other
arts. He was born in 1861 and died in 1941.
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| Rabindranath Tagore
Translation by William Radice, "Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems", Penguin Books, 1985 (ISBN 0 14 01.8366 3) To order "Selected Poems" from www.amazon.com, click.here . |
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