Gitanjali — Song 82
Gitanjali — Song 82
Rabindranath Tagore
Time is endless in thy hands, my lord. There is none to count thy
minutes.
Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers. Thou knowest
how to wait.
Thy centuries follow each other perfecting a small wild flower.
We have no time to lose, and having no time we must scramble for a
chances. We are too poor to be late.
And thus it is that time goes by while I give it to every querulous man
who claims it, and thine altar is empty of all offerings to the last.
At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I
find that yet there is time.
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Complete 103-poem English Gitanjali, translated by the author and published in 1912. · Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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