The bird wishes it were a cloud. The cloud wishes it were a bird.
Rabindranath Tagore · Stray Birds
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“The bird wishes it were a cloud. The cloud wishes it were a…”
- Author
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Work
- Stray Birds
- Year
- 1916
- Length
- 14 words
- Source
- Project Gutenberg eBook #6524
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1916. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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