In Desperate Hope

Rabindranath Tagore

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1861 to 1941

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My house is small and what once has gone from it
from which nothing can vanish --
In desperate hope I go and search for her
no hope, no happiness,
I have come to the brink of eternity
in all the corners of my room; I find her not.
no vision of a face seen through tears.
can never be regained.
Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean,
plunge it into the deepest fullness.
and I lift my eager eyes to thy face.
that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.
I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky
But infinite is thy mansion, my lord,
and seeking her I have to come to thy door.
Let me for once feel

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