Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore [sneezy the snowman read aloud .TXT] 📗
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THE grass-blade is worth of the great world where it grows.
118DREAM is a wife who must talk.
Sleep is a husband who silently suffers.
119THE night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, "I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth."
120I FEEL, thy beauty, dark night, like that of the loved woman when she has put out the lamp.
121I CARRY in my world that flourishes the worlds that have failed.
122DEAR friend, I feel the silence of your great thoughts of may a deepening eventide on this beach when I listen to these waves.
123THE bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.
124"IN the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun.
"I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."
125THE Great is a born child; when he dies he gives his great childhood to the world.
126NOT hammerstrokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
127BEES sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
128TO be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
129ASKS the Possible to the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling place?"
"In the dreams of the impotent," comes the answer.
130IF you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
131I HEAR some rustle of things behind my sadness of heart,--I cannot see them.
132LEISURE in its activity is work.
The stillness of the sea stirs in waves.
133THE leaf becomes flower when it loves.
The flower becomes fruit when it worships.
134THE roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
135THIS rainy evening the wind is restless.
I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things.
136STORM of midnight, like a giant child awakened in the untimely dark, has begun to play and shout.
137THOU raisest thy waves vainly to follow thy lover. O sea, thou lonely bride of the storm.
138"I AM ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work.
"I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.
139TIME is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
140TRUTH in her dress finds facts too tight.
In fiction she moves with ease.
141WHEN I travelled to here and to there, I was tired of thee, O Road, but now when thou leadest me to everywhere I am wedded to thee in love.
142LET me think that there is one among those stars that guides my life through the dark unknown.
143WOMAN, with the grace of your fingers you touched my things and order came out like music.
144ONE sad voice has its nest among the ruins of the years.
It sings to me in the night,--"I loved you."
145THE flaming fire warns me off by its own glow.
Save me from the dying embers hidden under ashes.
146I HAVE my stars in the sky,
But oh for my little lamp unlit in my house.
147THE dust of the dead words clings to thee.
Wash thy soul with silence.
148GAPS are left in life through which comes the sad music of death.
149THE world has opened its heart of light in the morning.
Come out, my heart, with thy love to meet it.
150MY thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings with the touch of this sunlight; my life is glad to be floating with all things into the blue of space, into the dark of time.
151GOD'S great power is in the gentle breeze, not in the storm.
152THIS is a dream in which things are all loose and they oppress. I shall find them gathered in thee when I awake and shall be free.
153"WHO is there to take up my duties?" asked the setting sun.
"I shall do what I can, my Master," said the earthen lamp.
154BY plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
155SILENCE will carry your voice like the nest that holds the sleeping birds.
156THE Great walks with the Small without fear.
The Middling keeps aloof.
157THE night opens the flowers in secret and allows the day to get thanks.
158POWER takes as ingratitude the writhings of its victims.
159WHEN we rejoice in our fulness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.
160THE raindrops kissed the earth and whispered,--"We are thy homesick children, mother, come back to thee from the heaven."
161THE cobweb pretends to catch dew-drops and catches flies.
162LOVE! when you come with the burning lamp of pain in your hand, I can see your face and know you as bliss.
163"THE learned say that your lights will one day be no more." said the firefly to the stars.
The stars made no answer.
164IN the dusk of the evening the bird of some early dawn comes to the nest of my silence.
165THOUGHTS pass in my mind like flocks of ducks in the sky.
I hear the voice of their wings.
166THE canal loves to think that rivers exist solely to supply it with water.
167THE world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in songs.
168THAT which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?
169THOUGHT feeds itself with its own words and grows.
170I HAVE dipped the vessel of my heart into this silent hour; it has filled with love.
171EITHER you have work or you have not.
When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief.
172THE sunflower blushed to own the nameless flower as her kin.
The sun rose and smiled on it, saying, "Are you well, my darling?"
173"WHO drives me forward like fate?"
"The Myself striding on my back."
174THE clouds fill the watercups of the river, hiding themselves in the distant hills.
175I SPILL water from my water jar as I walk on my way,
Very little remains for my home.
176THE water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words that are clear; the great truth has great silence.
177YOUR smile was the flowers of your own fields, your talk was the rustle of your own mountain pines, but your heart was the woman that we all know.
178IT is the little things that I leave behind for my loved ones,--great things are for everyone.
179WOMAN, thou hast encircled the world's heart with the depth of thy tears as the sea has the earth.
180THE sunshine greets me with a smile. The rain, his sad sister, talks to my heart.
181MY flower of the day dropped its petals forgotten.
In the evening it ripens into a golden fruit of memory.
182I AM like the road in the night listening to the footfalls of its memories in silence.
183THE evening sky to me is like a window, and a lighted lamp, and a waiting behind it.
184HE who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
185I AM the autumn cloud, empty of rain, see my fulness in the field of ripened rice.
186THEY hated and killed and men praised them.
But God in shame hastens to hide its memory under the green grass.
187TOES are the fingers that have forsaken their past.
188DARKNESS travels towards light, but blindness towards death.
189THE pet dog suspects the universe for scheming to take its place.
190SIT still my heart, do not raise your dust.
Let the world find its way to you.
191THE bow whispers to the arrow before it speeds forth--"Your freedom is mine."
192WOMAN, in your laughter you have the music of the fountain of life.
193A MIND all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
194GOD loves man's lamp lights better than his own great stars.
195THIS world is the world of wild storms kept tame with the music of beauty.
196"MY heart is like the golden casket of thy kiss," said the sunset cloud to the sun.
197BY touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess.
198THE cricket's chirp and the patter of rain come to me through the dark, like the rustle of dreams from my past youth.
199"I HAVE lost my dewdrop," cries the flower to the morning sky that has lost all its stars.
200THE burning log bursts in flame and cries,--"This is my flower, my death."
201THE wasp thinks that the honey-hive of the neighbouring bees is too small.
His neighbours ask him to build one still smaller.
202"I CANNOT keep your waves," says the bank to the river.
"Let me keep your footprints in my heart."
203THE day, with the noise of this little earth, drowns the silence of all worlds.
204THE song feels the infinite in the air, the picture in the earth, the poem in the air and the earth;
For its words have meaning that walks and music that soars.
205WHEN the sun goes down to the West, the East of his morning stands before him in silence.
206LET me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it against me.
207PRAISE shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
208LET my doing nothing when I have nothing to do become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
209MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.
210THE best does not come alone. It comes with the company of the all.
211GOD's right hand is gentle, but terrible is his left hand.
212MY evening came among the alien trees and spoke in a language which my morning stars did not know.
213NIGHT'S darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
214OUR desire lends the colours of the rainbow to the mere mists and vapours of life.
215GOD waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
216MY sad thoughts tease me asking me their own names.
217THE service of the fruit is precious, the service of the flower is sweet, but let my service be the service of the leaves in its shade of humble devotion.
218MY heart has spread its sails to the idle winds for the shadowy island of Anywhere.
219MEN are cruel, but Man is kind.
220MAKE me thy cup and let my fulness be for thee and for thine.
221THE storm is like the cry of some god in pain whose love the earth refuses.
222THE world does not leak because death is not a crack.
223LIFE has become richer by the love that has been lost.
224MY friend, your great heart shone with the sunrise of the East like the snowy summit of a lonely hill in the dawn.
225THE fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
226THOSE who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
227THE movement of life has its rest in its own music.
228KICKS only raise dust and not crops from the earth.
229OUR names are the light that glows on the sea waves at night and then dies without leaving its signature.
230LET him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.
231SET bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.
232THE same lotus of our clime blooms here in the alien water with the same sweetness, under another name.
233IN heart's perspective the distance looms large.
234THE moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself.
235DO not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.
236SMOKE boasts to the sky, and
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