I have made You the polar star of my existence;
never again can I lose my way
in the voyage of life.
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Let my love, like sunlight,
surround you
and
yet give you illumined freedom.
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If you would have it so,
I will end my singing.
If it sets your heart aflutter,
I will take away my eyes from your face.
If it suddenly startles you in your walk,
I will step aside and take another path.
If it confuses you in your flower-weaving,
I will shun your lonely garden.
If it makes the water wanton and wild,
I will not row my boat by your bank
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My song will be like a pair of wings
to your dreams,
it will transport your heart to the verge
of the unknown
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The World has kissed my Soul with its Pain,
asking for its return in Songs.
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I am restless.
I am athirst for far-away things.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch
the skirt of the dim distance.
O Great Beyond,
O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly,
that I am bound in this spot evermore.
I am eager and wakeful,
I am a stranger in a strange land.
Thy breath comes to me
whispering an impossible hope.
Thy tongue is known to my heart as its very own.
O Far-to-seek, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget, that I know not the way,
that I have not the winged horse.
I am listless, I am a wanderer in my heart.
In the sunny haze of the languid hours,
what vast vision of thine
takes shape in the blue of the sky!
O Farthest end, O the keen call of thy flute!
I forget, I ever forget,
that the gates are shut everywhere
in the house where I dwell alone!
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~ Rabindranath Tagore ~
