Rabindranath Tagore

This morning, we consider the work of Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861– August 8, 1941), Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Gardener [61]

Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. 
Let it not be a death but completeness. 
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. 
Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings
over the nest. 
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of
the night. 
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last
words in silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.

----Rabindranath Tagore