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Stray Birds
By Rabindranath Tagore
[translated from Bengali to English by the author]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916
[Frontispiece in color by Willy Pogány]
redacted by Chetan K Jain, BharatLiterature
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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O troupe of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.
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The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover. It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.
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It is the tears of the earth that keep her smiles in bloom.
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The mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
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If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
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The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness?
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Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
Author : Rabindranath Tagore
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