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by Rabindranath Tagore — a poem card from Justes Mots

The speaker offers their tears, sighs, and songs to the divine through sunbeams and clouds, celebrating how the divine transforms human suffering into beauty. Tagore's metaphysical poem uses natural imagery to explore the relationship between the mortal and divine. Serves as spiritual meditation on transcendence and devotion.

Thy sunbeam comes upon this earth of mine with arms outstretched and stands at
my door the livelong day to carry back to thy feet clouds made of my tears and
sighs and songs.

With fond delight thou wrappest about thy starry breast that mantle of misty
cloud, turning it into numberless shapes and folds and colouring it with hues
everchanging.
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