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Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
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The raindrops kissed the earth and whispered,--"We are thy
homesick children, mother, come back to thee from the heaven."

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The cobweb pretends to catch dew-drops and catches flies.

162
Love! when you come with the burning lamp of pain in your hand,
I can see your face and know you as bliss.

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"The learned say that your lights will one day be no more." said
the firefly to the stars.

The stars made no answer.

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In the dusk of the evening the bird of some early dawn comes to
the nest of my silence.

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Thoughts pass in my mind like flocks of ducks in the sky.
I hear the voice of their wings.

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The canal loves to think that rivers exist solely to supply it
with water.

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