Earth Poem by Kahlil Gibran
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Earth Poem by Kahlil Gibran Tamil Nadu IX standard text book
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EARTH
Kahlil Gibran
Vocabulary
How beautiful you are, Earth,
plains
plains
plains
plains
stony mountains
stony mountains
stony mountains
stony mountains
stony mountains
valleys
valleys
valleys
valleys
valleys
valleys
caves
caves
caves
caves
caves
caves
caves
caves
caves
plains
plains
splendid presence
splendid presence
tranquility
We pierce your bosom with swords and spears.
balsam
balsam
balsam
We plant your fields with skull and bones.
cypress
cypres
willow trees
willow trees,
willow tree
We empty our wastes in your bosom,
We empty our wastes in your bosom,
Hunger
Hunger
Thirst
Thirst
Thirst
Thirst
Thirst
Our threshing floors with wheat sheaves,
Our threshing floors with wheat sheaves,
Our threshing floors with wheat sheaves,
winepresses
grapes.
We extract your elements to make
Cannons and bombs but out of
Cannons and bombs
bombs
bombs
bombs
Lilies
Lilies
Lilies
Lilies
Lilies
roses
roses
How patient you are Earth, and how merciful!
Are you an atom of dust raised by
The feet of God
The feet of God
Universe
Universe
You are “I”, Earth!
You are my sight and my discernment.
You are my knowledge and my dream
You are my hunger and my thirst.
You are my sorrow and my joy.
You are the beauty that lives in my eyes
The longing in my heart,
The everlasting life in My soul!
You are “I”, Earth,
You would not have been!
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
The Eye of the Prophet
Frog, Ltd., Berkeley, 1995
Prepared by
S. Kasthuri Rengan
Pudukkottai
