A Prayer

Spirit and Breath of Life, whate’er Thy name!

Bear with Thy creature, Man,

That makes his dwelling-place a blot of shame

Upon the Ordered Plan.

Not Thy hand, O Divine Designer, hurled

Athwart the starlit skies

One blood-stained, greed-diseased, hate-eaten world,

To shock celestial eyes.

Not Thy default, O Beautiful, this crust

Of fratricidal crime,

These maggot-breeds of hunger and of lust

That Thy fair work begrime.

But ours, who mock Thee from the highest place,

And in the light of day;

Who claim to lead an upward-struggling race,

And will not seek the way.

Guards of the human birthright, at Thy call-

A city sacked and burned;

Guards of the house that is the home of all,

But whence the weak are spurned.

Brothers, to whom the outcast brothers cry

As with a voice unknown;

Stewards of Nature’s bounty, that deny

The lawful heirs their own.

Thou that hast made us men, and earth so fair,

To be so vilely used,

Give space for late repentance and repair

Of sacred trust abused.

Give time, Eternal, that we stanch these tears,

Give time to heal this sore,

That our brief speck amid the shining spheres

Disgrace its birth no more.

But sail ethereal seas, an orb of light,

To bear Thy purpose on

Until it fades into the cosmic night

Where the dead worlds have gone.

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Poems in English 

• The Beginning by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Astronomer by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Time by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Man by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Love by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Life by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Beauty by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• One Day In Spring…. by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• On The Nature Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• My Friend, Come In These Rains — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Lord Of My Life by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Lamp Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Kinu Goala’s Alley – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• In The Dusky Path Of A Dream by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• In The Country – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• I Found A Few Old Letters by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• I Cast My Net Into The Sea by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Gift Of The Great – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

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