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Stray Birds 43: The fish in the water is silent
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Stray Birds (1916)
Living
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 43: The fish in the water is silent.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/230/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Stray Birds 43: The fish in the water is silent.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/230/.
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