by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
The eternal Dream
Language: English
The eternal Dream is borne on the wings of ageless Light that rends the veil of the vague and goes across Time weaving ceaseless patterns of Being. The mystery remains dumb, the meaning of this pilgrimage, the endless adventure of existence — whose rush along the sky flames up into innumerable rings of paths, till at last knowledge gleams out from the dusk in the infinity of human spirit, and in the dim lighted dawn she speechlessly gazes through the break in the mist at the vision of Life and [of]1 Love [rising]2 from the tumult of profound pain and joy.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Rabindranath Tagore, The Religion of Man, New York, The MacMillan Company, 1931, page 10.
1 omitted by Hinton.2 Hinton: "emerging"
Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, written c1929, appears in The Religion of Man, New York, The MacMillan Company, first published 1931 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Alistair Hinton (b. 1950), "The eternal Dream", op. 13 no. 5m (1969-1977) [ high voice and string quintet ], from String Quintet, no. 5m [sung text checked 1 time]
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