Life and Death

Translation of poem 37 from the collection Rogshajyay (In Sick Bed) by Rabindranath Tagore. Written at Udayan, Santiniketan, in the morning on 4^th December, 1940, a few months before the poet’s death in August 1941. To fully appreciate how a seer’s vision has been expressed in supreme poetry one has to read this marvelous poem in the original at http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr.org/node/12976