Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
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page 7 of 45 (15%)
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sing like a hill stream among its pebbles.
39 The sun goes to cross the Western sea, leaving its last salutation to the East. 40 Do not blame your food because you have no appetite. 41 The trees, like the longings of the earth, stand a-tiptoe to peep at the heaven. 42 You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long. 43 The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. 44 The world rushes on over the strings of the lingering heart making the music of sadness. 45 He has made his weapons his gods. When his weapons win he is defeated himself. |
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