The Gardener 54
Where do you hurry with your basket this late evening when themarketing is over?They all have come home with their burdens; the moon peeps fromabove the village trees.The echoes of the voices calling for the ferry run across the darkwater to the distant swamp where wild ducks sleep.Where do you hurry with your basket when the marketing is over?
Sleep has laid her fingers upon the eyes of the earth.The nests of the crows have become silent, and the murmurs of thebamboo leaves are silent.The labourers home from their fields spread their mats in the courtyards.Where do you hurry with your basket when the marketing is over?
Words in this poem
- marketing n.
- The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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The Gardener 54 is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Gardener, translated by the author from the original Bengali (Macmillan, London and New York, 1913; this text the 1915 printing), Project Gutenberg ebook #6686; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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