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Poem - Water is Silent

2006-10-11 02:35 | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Rabindranath Tagore
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water

 

The fish in the water is silent,
the animals on the earth is noisy,
the bird in the air is singing.
But man has in him the silence of the sea,
the noise of the earth
and the music of the air.

 

 

By: Rabindranath Tagore

From Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
[translated from Bengali to English by the author]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916

 

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