VI

Thou art the sky and thou art the nest as well. Oh, thou beautiful,

there in the nest it is thy love that encloses the soul with colours and

sounds and odours. There comes the morning with the golden basket in her

right hand bearing the wreath of beauty, silently to crown the earth.

And there comes the evening over the lonely meadows deserted by herds,

through trackless paths, carrying cool draughts of peace in her golden

pitcher from the western ocean of rest.

But there, where spreads the infinite sky for the soul to take her

flight in, reigns the stainless white radiance. There is no day nor

night, nor form nor colour, and never never a word.

_Rabindranath Tagore_

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Volume 01 October-March, 1912-13 · 第 66 / 157 题