My Last Song 

Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song – 

the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass; 

the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world; 

the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter; 

the joy that sits still on the open, red lotus of pain, 

and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word.

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.