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INTRODUCTION
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| Rabindranath
Tagore, like Chaucer's forerunners, writes music for his words, and
one understands at every moment that he is so abundant, so
spontaneous, so daring in his passion, so full of surprise, because
he is doing something which has never seemed strange, unnatural, or
in need of defence. These verses will not lie in little well-printed
books upon ladies' tables, who turn the pages with indolent hands
that they may sigh over a life without meaning, which is yet all
they can know of life, or be carried by students at the university
to be laid aside when the work of life begins, but, as the
generations pass, travelers will hum them on the highway and men
rowing upon the rivers. Lovers, while they await one another, shall find,
in murmuring them, this love of God a magic gulf wherein their own
more bitter passion may bathe and renew its youth. At every moment
the heart of this poet flows outward to these without derogation or
condescension, for it has known that they will understand; and it
has filled itself with the circumstance of their lives.
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