Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore

Performed by  Shernaz Patel

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
The infinite sky is motionless overhead and the
restless water is boisterous. On the seashore of
endless worlds the children meet with shouts and dances.
 
They build their houses with sand, and they play
with empty shells. With withered leaves they weave
their boats and smilingly float them on the vast
deep. Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

They know not how to swim, they know not how
to cast nets. Pearl-fishers dive for pearls, merchants
sail in their ships, while children gather pebbles and
scatter them again. They seek not for hidden
 treasures, they know not how to cast nets.

The sea surges up with laughter, and pale gleams
the smile of the sea-beach. Death-dealing waves
sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a
mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea
plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea-beach

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
Tempest roams in the pathless sky, ships are
wrecked in the trackless water, death is abroad and
children play. On the seashore of endless worlds is
the great meeting of children.