Religion
Fruit-Gathering 56: You came for a moment to my side
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore (1916) · From Fruit-Gathering (1916)
You came for a moment to my side and touched me with the great mystery of the woman that there is in the heart of creation.
She who is ever returning to God his own outflowing of sweetness; she is the ever fresh beauty and youth in nature; she dances in the bubbling streams and sings in the morning light; she with heaving waves suckles the thirsty earth; in her the Eternal One breaks in two in a joy that no longer may contain itself, and overflows in the pain of love.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 56: You came for a moment to my side.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/569/.
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Tagore, Rabindranath. “Fruit-Gathering 56: You came for a moment to my side.” Translated by Rabindranath Tagore. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/tagore/569/.
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