by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
The soil in return for her service
Language: English
Available translation(s): GER
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her, the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
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Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Fireflies, no. 28 [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):
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This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
- by Ralph D'Mello (b. 195?), "Fireflies", 1999 [tenor or baritone and clarinet], from Tagore Songs, no. 2..
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title unknown, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-04
Line count: 3
Word count: 21