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Fruit-Gathering 30: A smile of mirth spread over the sky
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)
A smile of mirth spread over the sky when you dressed my heart in rags and sent her forth into the road to beg.
She went from door to door, and many a time when her bowl was nearly full she was robbed.
At the end of the weary day she came to your palace gate holding up her pitiful bowl, and you came and took her hand and seated her beside you on your throne.
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MLA
Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 30: A smile of mirth spread over the sky.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/543/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 30: A smile of mirth spread over the sky.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/543/.
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