{"id":444,"date":"2014-04-02T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:51:12","slug":"april-2-tagore-in-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/04\/02\/april-2-tagore-in-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2 Tagore in Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday April 2 — Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali # 63<\/p>\n

Tagore’s No. 63 — someone in a time of change, tempted to lose heart. The poet’s responds, pauses one moment and remembers the wonder of her\/his life and the wonder of the Sacred One whom Tagore addresses as “Thee” and “Thou.’<\/p>\n

Walking campus yesterday I saw lots of playfulness, strangers smiling and saying hi and praising the day’s windy and spectaculor colors. It felt like the campus was tasting some beginning healing after this relentless winter. Perhaps that’s what led me back to Tagore and # 63.<\/p>\n

Have a good day. 46\u00ba and sunny at game time; aiming at mid-50ies by 5:00. Residual snow keeps quietly melting.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not.
\nThou hast given me seats in homes not my own.
\nThou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.<\/p>\n

I am uneasy at heart when I have to leave my accustomed shelter;
\nI forget that there abides the old in the new,
\nand that there also thou abidest.<\/p>\n

Through birth and death, in this world or in others,
\nwherever thou leadest me it is thou, the same,
\nthe one companion of my endless life
\nwho ever linkest my heart with bonds of joy to the unfamiliar.<\/p>\n

When one knows thee, then alien there is none,
\nthen no door is shut.
\nOh, grant me my prayer
\nthat I may never lose the bliss of the touch of the one
\nin the play of the many.<\/p>\n

Tagore Gitanjali<\/span> #63<\/p>\n

Tagore died in the city of his birth, Calcutta, in 1941. He vastly influenced poetry, sacred and secular, not only in India but around the world. He is the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. If you buy Gitanjali, a book of 100 short sacred poems, prepare yourself to only read one poem at a time so you can sit with it. Here is # 1. These poems have no titles, only numbers.<\/p>\n

\"Tagore\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tagore on his 70th birthday, \u00a0May 2931<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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