Reed Flute cave in Guilin, Guangxi, China
"My song has put off her adornments. She has no pride of dress and decoration. Ornaments would mar our union; they would come between thee and me; their jingling would drown thy whispers.
My poet's vanity dies in shame before thy sight. O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music."
Rabindranath Tagore
Gintanjali* No. 7.
1910
July 9, 2021
*Song Offering
Image Credit: Ralph Crane/Lisa Fletcher, from article "Cave Culture" by Tom Hart, published in Explorers, at https://geographical.co.uk/people/explorers/item/864-cave-culture.
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