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atanu
09 May 2010, 12:40 AM
Clouds and Waves

Rabindranath Tagore

Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me-
"We play from the time we wake till the day ends.
We play with the golden dawn, we play with the silver moon."
I ask, "But how am I to get up to you ?"
They answer, "Come to the edge of the earth, lift up your
hands to the sky, and you will be taken up into the clouds."
"My mother is waiting for me at home, "I say, "How can I leave
her and come?"
Then they smile and float away.

But I know a nicer game than that, mother.
I shall be the cloud and you the moon.
I shall cover you with both my hands, and our house-top will
be the blue sky.

The folk who live in the waves call out to me-
"We sing from morning till night; on and on we travel and know
not where we pass."
I ask, "But how am I to join you?"
They tell me, "Come to the edge of the shore and stand with
your eyes tight shut, and you will be carried out upon the waves."
I say, "My mother always wants me at home in the everything-
how can I leave her and go?"
They smile, dance and pass by.

But I know a better game than that.
I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore.
I shall roll on and on and on, and break upon your lap with
laughter.
And no one in the world will know where we both are.

sambya
09 May 2010, 03:09 AM
thanks for posting this . well Atanu , can you provide me with names of some sites where i can find online rabindranath short stories -- translated versions ??

atanu
09 May 2010, 04:19 AM
thanks for posting this . well Atanu , can you provide me with names of some sites where i can find online rabindranath short stories -- translated versions ??

Namaste sambya

Some short stories can be found at these sites:

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/982/
http://www.shortstoryarchive.com/t/rabindranath_tagore.html

William Radice's book "Selected Short Story of Rabindranath can be read at Google books. The Google page contains list of some more references.

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=o7wM74zi3q0C&dq

Regards

Om Namah shivaya

sambya
09 May 2010, 10:33 AM
thanks for providing the links . i want to share them with some of my friends who are unable to read bengali . personally i believe that rabindranath was a far superior talent than even shakespeare ! but sadly the language barrier prevents him from reaching out to the world at large . and even then the translated versions loose the 'thing' of the originals .

jai ma

Ashvati
09 May 2010, 10:44 AM
Now that I've read this, I'm wondering where I might find a translation of "Madman who wears the moon".