by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
My bonds are cut, my debts are paid
Language: English
My bonds are cut, my debts are paid, my door has been opened, I go everywhere. They crouch in their corner and weave their web of pale hours, they count their coins sitting in the dust and call me back. But my sword is forged, my armour is put on, my horse is eager to run. I shall win my kingdom.
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Confirmed with Rabindranath Tagore, Fruit-Gathering, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Fruit-Gathering, no. 74, first published 1916 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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