Lover's Gifts Lxx: Take Back Your Coins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIBBCDJKELMNO FPQHRESFTHIUVWAXYKZA| Take back your coins King's Councillor I am of those women you | A |
| sent to the forest shrine to decoy the young ascetic who had never | B |
| seen a women I failed in your bidding | C |
| Dimly day was breaking when the hermit boy came to bathe in | D |
| the stream his tawny locks crowded on his shoulders like a | E |
| cluster of morning clouds and his limbs shining like a streak of | F |
| sunbeam We laughed and sang as we rowed in our boat we jumped | G |
| into the river in a mad frolic and danced around him when the sun | H |
| rose staring at us from the water's edge in a flush of divine | I |
| anger | B |
| Like a child god the boy opened his eyes and watched our | B |
| movements the wonder deepening till his eyes shone like morning | C |
| stars He lifted his clasped hands and chanted a hymn of praise in | D |
| his bird like young voice thrilling every leaf of the forest | J |
| Never such words were sung to a mortal woman before they were like | K |
| the silent hymn to the dawn which rises from the hushed hills THe | E |
| women hid their mouths with their hands their bodies swaying with | L |
| laughter and a spasm of doubt ran across his face Quickly came | M |
| I to his side sorely pained and bowing to his feet I said | N |
| Lord accept my service | O |
| I led him to the grassy bank wiped his body with the end of | F |
| my silken mantle and kneeling on the ground I dried his feet | P |
| with my trailing hair When I raised my face and looked into his | Q |
| eyes I thought I felt the world's first kiss to the first woman | H |
| Blessed am I blessed is God who made me a woman I heard him say | R |
| to me What God unknown are you YOur touch is the touch of the | E |
| Immortal your eyes have the mystery of the midnight | S |
| Ah no not that smile King's Councillor the dust of | F |
| worldly wisdom has covered your sight old man But this boy's | T |
| innocence pierced the mist and saw the shining truth the woman | H |
| divine | I |
| The women clapped their hands and laughed their obscene | U |
| laugh and with veils dragged on the dust and hair hanging loose | V |
| they began to pelt him with flowers | W |
| Alas my spotless sun could not my shame weave fiery mist to | A |
| cover you in its folds I fell at his feet and cried Forgive me | X |
| I fled like a stricken deer through shade and sun and cried as | Y |
| I fled Forgive me The women's foul laughter pressed me like | K |
| a cracking fire but the words ever rang in my ears What God | Z |
| unknown are you | A |
Rabindranath Tagore
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