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The Gardener 58: One morning in the flower garden a blind
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1915) · From The Gardener (1915)
Love
One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf.
I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes.
I kissed her and said, "You are blind even as the flowers are.
You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift."
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MLA
Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Gardener 58: One morning in the flower garden a blind.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/160/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “The Gardener 58: One morning in the flower garden a blind.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/160/.
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