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Fruit-Gathering


By Rabindranath Tagore


[Translated from Bengali to English by the author]


New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916




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Bid me and I shall gather my fruits to bring them in full baskets
into your courtyard, though some are lost and some not ripe.

For the season grows heavy with its fulness, and there is a
plaintive shepherd's pipe in the shade.

Bid me and I shall set sail on the river.