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RABINDRANATH TAGORE
CH. IV
natural imagery again accentuates the love-theme:
The shadow of the coming rain is on the sands, and the clouds hang low upon the blue lines of the trees like the heavy hair above your eyebrows.
Finally, we may say about The Gardener that, although there have been other Indian poets who have sung of love and mortal life, and others who have made hymns of divine adoration, none until he came was able to interpret in both kinds the spirit of the east to the people of the west. That is, in remembering India, he has not forgotten that his songs and their themes must be subject to the whole realm of art; and he has made their accent universal.
