KNOWING YOU

      By Rabindranath Tagore
Countless are the persons You made me know,
Sheltered me in countless homes,
You turned the distant into an intimate, O Friend,
And the foreigner into a brother.
Each time I have to leave an old dwelling
My mind gets worried not to know what is up
Forgetting that You remain the familiar
In the midst of the new,
You turned the distant into an intimate, O Friend,
And the foreigner into a brother.
In life or in death, in the totality of this globe,
Wherever you choose to carry me,
O my life-long acquaintance,
Whatever You will reveal to me.
Others cease to be strangers once You are known,
Taboos vanish and vanishes all fear;
You remain wakeful by uniting everybody
May I always realise it,
You turned the distant into an intimate, O Friend,
And the foreigner into a brother.

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