Sir Rabindranath Tagore
By United Press
LONDON, Aug. 7, 1941__The India office announced today that Sir
Rabindanath Tagore, 80, famous Indian poet, philosopher and Nobel Prize
winner, had died in India, presumably yesterday at his residence at
Santiniketan in Bengal.
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
where the world has not been broken up into fragments by
narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depths of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into
the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening
thought and action-
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country
awake."
FireFlies__by RABINDRANATH TAGORE
"God in His temple of stars waits for man to bring him his lamp".
"Perhaps the crecent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it
is a fragment awaiting perfection".
"The judge thinks that he is just when he compares the oil of
anothers lamp with the light of his own".
"My heart to-day smiles at its past night of tears like a wet
tree glistening in the sun after the rain is over".
"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring
stones".
"The freedom of the storm and the bondage of stem join hands in
the dance of swaying branches".
"God seeks comrades and claims love, the Devil seeks slaves and
claims obedience".
"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in
the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest".
"Memory, the priestess, Kills the present and offers its heart
to the shrine of the dead past."
"Feathers in the dust lying lazily content have forgotten their
sky".
Other works by Tagore
Gitanjali
The Crescent Moon
Chitra
Fruit-Gathering
The Post Office
Lover's Gift
Crossing
Stray Birds
The Cycle of Spring
Sacrifice
Sanyasi, or The Ascetic
Malini
The King and the Queen
Karna and Kunti
In 1901 Rabindranath Tagore founded a school at
Santiniketan which later developed into an international institution
called Visva Bharati. There he tried to revive the spirit of education
of ancient India when eager youths sat at the feet of the mystics. He
sought to abolish all class and religious distinctions.
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