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Stray Birds 15: Do not seat your love upon a precipice

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)

Living

Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 15: Do not seat your love upon a precipice.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/202/.

Chicago

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 15: Do not seat your love upon a precipice.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/202/.

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