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Song LI: Dear friend, I am eager to meet my Beloved! My youth has flowered
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill (1915) · From Songs of Kabir (1915)
Dear friend, I am eager to meet my Beloved! My youth has flowered, and the pain of separation from Him troubles my breast.
I am wandering yet in the alleys of knowledge without purpose, but I have received His news in these alleys of knowledge.
I have a letter from my Beloved: in this letter is an unutterable message, and now my fear of death is done away.
Kabîr says: "O my loving friend! I have got for my gift the Deathless One."
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MLA
Kabir. “Song LI: Dear friend, I am eager to meet my Beloved! My youth has flowered.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/50/.
Chicago
Kabir. “Song LI: Dear friend, I am eager to meet my Beloved! My youth has flowered.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, with Evelyn Underhill. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/kabir/50/.
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- Song XCVII: The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you, as life is in every seed