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Readings from Tagore and Neruda

Posted by Madhu B. Wangu on November 1, 2005

Tagore joyously sings about the inevitable but tender relationship of death with life.

God finds himself by creating (46)
The infant flower opens its bud and cries, "Dear World, please do not fade." (66)
The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, "I am death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth." (119)
Death belongs [...]

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