Salutation

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BYU Choirs, Rabindranath Tagore, Ēriks Ešenvalds

In one salutation to thee, my God,
let all my senses spread out
and touch this world at thy feet.

Like a rain-cloud of July
hung low with its burden of unshed showers,
let all my mind bend down at thy door
in one salutation to thee.

Let all my songs
gather together their diverse strains
into a single current
and flow to a sea of silence
in one salutation to thee.

Like a flock of homesick cranes
flying night and day
back to their mountain nests,
let all my life take its voyage
to its eternal home
in one salutation to thee.

Rabindranath Tagore

put to music by Ēriks Ešenvalds

performed to perfection by two amazing choirs:

💜🙏

#SoftTuesday . . . Now it is time for our souls to make love. .

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Rabindranath Tagore, Rumi

… because,

as Rumi also said,

Only the soul knows what love is.

🙏 💜 🙏

Purplerays

“Though I hold your hands and press you to my breast.
I fill my arms with your loveliness,
and plunder your sweet smiles with kisses.
I drink your dark glances with my eyes.
I try to reach your beautiful spirit, but it eludes me,
leaving only your body in my hands.
Baffled and weary I come back.
My body has loved your body.
Now it is time for our souls to make love.”
.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Text & image source: Irene Statz https://www.facebook.com/jiaegypt.montai

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Let all our songs gather together

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BYU Choirs, Jack Kornfield, Rabindranath Tagore, Ēriks Ešenvalds

Rabindranath Tagore‘s poem Salutation, set in music by Ēriks Ešenvalds,

divinely sung by some of the beautiful, beautiful BYU Singers

in this new video, with poem on screen.

God bless you friends.

I love you.

Leon

 

In one salutation to thee, my God,
let all my senses spread out and touch this world at thy feet.

Like a rain-cloud of July
hung low with its burden of unshed showers
let all my mind bend down at thy door in one salutation to thee.

Let all my songs gather together their diverse strains into a single current
and flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to thee.

Like a flock of homesick cranes flying night and day
back to their mountain nests
let all my life take its voyage to its eternal home
in one salutation to thee.

💜

🙏