Rabindrinath Lyrics as Litany

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Tagore was Poet, first.  Then later on

He bowed to writing plays and opera.  He

Began a school to raise a newer dawn

For youth because the schools he knew were free

From learning’s passion.  Poetry he turned

To since he had to.  Politics was forced

Upon him.  There his sunshine flared and burned

Again, but through all this his writing coursed

With poetry and poetry—and more

Of poetry.  As statesman he strode round

The world, yet deep within him at his core

Rang poetry.  It played his sunrise sound.

  He lived a poet … died a poet … made

    His poetry the way he always prayed.

~ Phillip Whidden