Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore

by Rabindranath Tagore

A sudden longing came upon me to go back to the day of that song; to be allowed to make another essay at life, this time not to leave it thus empty and unsatisfied; but with a poet's song on my lips to float about the world on the crest of the rising tide, to sing it to men and subdue their hearts; to see for myself what the world holds and where;