Gitanjali — Song 85
Gitanjali — Song 85
Rabindranath Tagore
When the warriors came out first from their master’s hall, where had
they hid their power? Where were their armour and their arms?
They looked poor and helpless, and the arrows were showered upon them
on the day they came out from their master’s hall.
When the warriors marched back again to their master’s hall where did
they hide their power?
They had dropped the sword and dropped the bow and the arrow; peace was
on their foreheads, and they had left the fruits of their life behind
them on the day they marched back again to their master’s hall.
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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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