by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
One morning in the flower garden
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
One morning in the flower garden a blind girl came to offer me a flower chain in the cover of a lotus leaf. I put it round my neck, and tears came to my eyes. I kissed her and said, "You are blind even as the flowers are. "You yourself know not how beautiful is your gift."
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Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 58, first published 1915 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Arturo Buzzi-Peccia (1856 - 1943), "In the flower garden", 1918 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Charles William) Eric Fogg (1903 - 1939), "One morning in the flower garden", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Songs of Love and Life, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Hanns Eisler.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Alexandr Mikhailovich Dzegelenok.
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- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Manuel M. Ponce.
- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Viking Dahl.
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