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Stray Birds

Rabindranath Tagore

Publisher: Sai ePublications

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Summary

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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.
Available since: 12/27/2016.

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