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Song XIX: O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill (1915) · From Songs of Kabir (1915)
O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake, oh wake!
Run to the feet of your Beloved: for your Lord stands near to your head.
You have slept for unnumbered ages; this morning will you not wake?
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MLA
Kabir. “Song XIX: O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/18/.
Chicago
Kabir. “Song XIX: O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/18/.
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