Farewell
I
have
got
my
leave.
Bid
me
farewell,
my
brothers!
I
bow
to
you
all
and
take
my
departure.
Here
I
give
back
the
keys
of
my
door
—-and
I
give
up
all
claims
to
my
house.
I
only
ask
for
last
kind
words
from
you.
We
were
neighbors
for
long,
but
I
received
more
than
I
could
give.
Now
the
day
has
dawned
and
the
lamp
that
lit
my
dark
corner
is
out.
A
summons
has
come
and
I
am
ready
for
my
journey.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.