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From Why do you whisper (Poem)


 Rabindranath Tagore 

(Translated from the original Bengali ) 

From Utshorgo, No. 45. First published BE 1309. 






Why do you whisper,

dear Death, my Death?

Why do you come so softly close and stare:

what kind of love is this?

When evening flowers

droop on their tiring stems

When the cows return to their sheds

after walking the field dawn to dusk

You come on those so-gentle feet

and sit demurely at my side.

I don't understand the things you say

dear Death, my Death. 


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