Gitanjali 12
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued myvoyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many astar and planet.
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and thattraining is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of atune.
The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, andone has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermostshrine at the end.
My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said “Here artthou!”
The question and the cry “Oh, where?” melt into tears of a thousandstreams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance “I am!”
About this text
Gitanjali 12 is in the public domain. This text is taken from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original Bengali, with an introduction by W. B. Yeats (India Society, London, 1912), Project Gutenberg ebook #7164; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali 12, in Gitanjali (Song Offerings) (1912), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #7164, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/tagore-gitanjali/poem-12.html, id L27874.
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