Religion

Fruit-Gathering 3: Is summer's festival only for fresh blossoms and

by Rabindranath Tagore 1861–1941

Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)

Religion

Is summer's festival only for fresh blossoms and not also for withered leaves and faded flowers?

Is the song of the sea in tune only with the rising waves?

Does it not also sing with the waves that fall?

Jewels are woven into the carpet where stands my king, but there are patient clods waiting to be touched by his feet.

Few are the wise and the great who sit by my Master, but he has taken the foolish in his arms and made me his servant for ever.

MLA

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 3: Is summer's festival only for fresh blossoms and.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/516/.

Chicago

Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 3: Is summer's festival only for fresh blossoms and.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/516/.

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