Rabindranath Tagore

The Source

The Source - meaning Summary

Origins of Infant Wonder

The poem wonders about the origins of a baby’s sleep, smile, and freshness. Each stanza poses a question and supplies an imaginative answer: sleep arriving from a fairy-like grove, the smile born from a pale crescent touching a cloud, and the child’s freshness traced to a mother’s youthful, tender heart. The tone is reverent and mysterious, linking childhood innocence to nature, dream, and maternal continuity.

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The sleep that flits on baby’s eyes does anybody know from where it comes? Yes, there is a rumour that it has its dwelling where, in the fairy village among shadows of the forest dimly lit with glow—worms, there hang two shy buds of enchantment. From there it comes to kiss baby’s eyes. The smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he sleeps—does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumour that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew washed morning — he smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he sleeps. The sweet, soft freshness hat blooms on baby’s limbs — does anybody know where it was hidden so long? Yes, when the mother was a young girl it lay pervading her heart in tender and silent mystery of love — he sweet, soft freshness that has bloomed on baby’s limbs.

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