Baby's Way

Rabindranath Tagore 1861 (Kolkata) – 1941 (Kolkata)



If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.
    It is not for nothing that he does not leave us.
    He loves to rest his head on mother's bosom, and cannot ever
bear to lose sight of her.
    Baby know all manner of wise words, though few on earth can
understand their meaning.
    It is not for nothing that he never wants to speak.
    The one thing he wants is to learn mother's words from
mother's lips. That is why he looks so innocent.
    Baby had a heap of gold and pearls, yet he came like a beggar
on to this earth.
    It is not for nothing he came in such a disguise.
    This dear little naked mendicant pretends to be utterly
helpless, so that he may beg for mother's wealth of love.
    Baby was so free from every tie in the land of the tiny
crescent moon.
    It was not for nothing he gave up his freedom.
    He knows that there is room for endless joy in mother's little
corner of a heart, and it is sweeter far than liberty to be caught
and pressed in her dear arms.
    Baby never knew how to cry. He dwelt in the land of perfect
bliss.
    It is not for nothing he has chosen to shed tears.
    Though with the smile of his dear face he draws mother's
yearning heart to him, yet his little cries over tiny troubles
weave the double bond of pity and love.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Scheme ABCCDEFGACHIJKJLGMNOPQRSTK
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,280
Words 251
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS was an Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. more…

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