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Will You Not Forget Me, Mother?

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When I take a profound sleep

Unable to measure so calm and deep,

Will you not forget me, O mother?

Will you keep loving me then like a shower?

 

When the sun paints the sky orange

And the patch of clouds sailing savage,

Will you remember, O mother tell me?

I will be taking then honey being a bee,

 

Like a flower bud with nectar compiled

I hope you won't deny me as your child,

But I am very scared of thinking so

If treating me cruelly you'll let me go

In considering it a goblin dream-

I'll cry over my frenzied pain so extreme.

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Motherhood

â—„ Vanquisher of Death

The Bard of the Rydal Mount and Tagore â–º

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