<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480041" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">None lives for ever, brother, and<br>nothing lasts for long. Keep that in<br>mind and rejoice.<br> Our life is not the one old burden,<br>our path is not the one long<br>journey.<br> One sole poet has not to sing one<br>aged song.<br> The flower fades and dies; but he<br>who wears the flower has not to<br>mourn for it for ever.<br> Brother, keep that in mind and <br>rejoice.<br> There must come a full pause to<br>weave perfection into music.<br> Life droops toward its sunset to be<br>drowned in the golden shadows.<br> Love must be called from its play<br>to drink sorrow and be borne to the<br>heaven of tears.<br> Brother, keep that in min and<br>rejoice.<br> We hasten to gather our flowers lest<br>they are plundered by the passing<br>winds.<br> It quickens our blood and brightens <br>our eyes to snatch kisses that would<br>vanish if we delayed.<br> Our life is eager, our desires are keen,<br>for time tolls the bell of parting.<br> Brother, keep that in mind and<br>rejoice.<br> There is not time for us to clasp a<br>thing and crush it and fling it away to<br>the dust.<br> The hours trip rapidly away, hiding<br>their dreams in their skirts.<br> Our life is short; it yields but a<br>few days for love.<br> Were it for work and drudgery it<br>would be endlessly long.<br> Brother, keep that in mind and<br>rejoice.<br> Beauty is sweet to us, because she<br>dances to the same fleeting tune with<br>our lives.<br> Knowledge is precious to us, because<br>we shall never have time to<br>complete it.<br> All is done and finished in the eternal<br>Heaven.<br> But earth's flowers of illusion are<br>kept eternally fresh by death.<br> Brother, keep that in mind and<br>rejoice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rabindranath+Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480041" data-title="The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother de Rabindranath Tagore" data-description="None lives for ever, brother, and nothing lasts for long. Keep that in mind and rejoice. Our life is not the one old burden, our path is not the one long journey. One sole poet has not to sing one aged song. The flower fades and dies; but he wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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