I, that forever feel athirst for glory,
Could at this moment be content to lie
Meekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings
Were heard of none beside the mournful robins.

O sleepless heart and sombre soul unsleeping,
That were athirst for sleep and no more life
And no more love, for peace and no more strife!

1913, Rabindranath Tagore, The Gardener, translated from the Bengali by the author, 5,
I am restless. I am athirst for far-away things.
My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance.

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