“From a poet who is not wise though old.”

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH. (1861-1941). Indian poet, philosopher and Nobel laureate. Original Autograph Poem Signed, “Rabindranath Tagore.” Two pages, octavo. No place, January, 1915. Very fine condition. To “Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson, London.” Tagore writes:

“From a poet who is not wise though old./Is festival of summer only for fresh flowers?/Do you not see there the play of withered leaves and faded flowers?/Is the song of the sea in tune only with the rising waves?/Does it also not sing with the waves that fall?/There are jewels on the carpet where my king stands./But are there no patient clods of earth waiting to be touched by his feet?/There by the side of my master sit few who are wise and great,/But he has taken the foolish in his arms and that has made me his servant forever./ Rabindranath Tagore.”

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