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标题：Last Poems 11.
作者：Barker, Wendy ; Tagore, Saranindranath
期刊名称：the new renaissance
印刷版ISSN：0028-6575
出版年度：2008
期号：March
语种：English
出版社：Friends of the new renaissance, Inc.

Last Poems 11.

Barker, Wendy ; Tagore, Saranindranath

Last Poems 11

 By the shore of the River Roop-naran
 I woke
 and knew this world
 was not a dream.
 In blood-letters I saw
 my own form
 and knew myself
 in wound upon wound,
 pain after pain.
 Truth is hard--
 hardness I have loved--
 it won't deceive.
 Till death, this life, the ascetic act,
 to earn truth's terrible value,
 to pay back all loans in death.

 13 May 1941 (3:15 a.m.)
 Shantiniketan

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Translated from Bengali by Wendy Barker and Saranindranath Tagore