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Stray Birds from Rabindranath Tagore

The power that boasts of its mischiefs is laughed at by the yellow leaves that fall, and clouds that pass by.

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We, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent? I am a mere flower.

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They hated and killed and men praised them. But God in shame hastens to hide its memory under the green grass.

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I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your house as a guest, I leave your door as a friend, my earth.

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Love's pain sang round my life like the unplumbed sea, and love's joy sang like birds in its flowering groves.

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The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, "I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth."

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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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I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

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The birth and death of the leaves are the rapid whirls of the eddy whose wider circles move slowly among stars.

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While I was passing with the crowd in the road I saw thy smile from the balcony and I sang and forgot all noise.

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