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  ...the birds sing thy name in thine own morning light,--for thy name is joy.
286 Lead me in the centre of thy silence to fill my heart with songs.
287 Let them live who choose in their own hissing world of fireworks. My heart longs for thy stars, my God.
288 Love's pain sang round my life like the unplumbed sea, and love's joy sang like birds in its flowering groves.
289 Put out the lamp when thou wishest. I shall know thy darkness and shall love it.
290 When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.  
291 Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, "I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man."
292 Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
293 Truth raises against itself the storm that scatters its seeds broadcast.
294 The storm of the last night has crowned this morning with golden peace.
295 Truth seems to come with its final word; and...   Tagore, Rabindranath

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Born May 7, 1861, Calcutta, India. Died Aug. 7, 1941, Calcutta. Bengali poet, writer, composer, and painter. The son of Debendranath Tagore, he published several books of poetry, including Manasi, in his 20's. His later religious poetry was introduced to the West in Gitanjali (1912). Through international travel and lecturing, he introduced aspects of Indian culture to the West and vice versa. He spoke ardently in favour of Indian independence; as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, he repudiated the knighthood he had received in 1915. He founded an experimental school in Bengal where he sought to blend Eastern and Western philosophies; it became Vishva-Bharati University (1921). He was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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