Religion
Fruit-Gathering 5: A handful of dust could hide your signal
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)
A handful of dust could hide your signal when I did not know its meaning.
Now that I am wiser I read it in all that hid it before.
It is painted in petals of flowers; waves flash it from their foam; hills hold it high on their summits.
I had my face turned from you, therefore I read the letters awry and knew not their meaning.
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MLA
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 5: A handful of dust could hide your signal.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/518/.
Chicago
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 5: A handful of dust could hide your signal.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/518/.
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