(SONG OFFERINGS) BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE A COLLECTION OF PROSE TRANSLATIONS THE ORIGINAL BENGALI WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. B. YEATS MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON COPYRIGHT Formerly issued (1912) in a limited Edition by the India Society First published by Macmillan & Co. March 1913 Reprinted April, May, June, July (twice), September October (three times), November (twice), and December (twice) 1913 January 1914 INTRODUCTION A FEW days ago I said to a distinguished Bengali doctor of medicine, "I know no German, yet if a translation of a German poet had moved me, I would go to the British Museum and find books in English that would tell me something of his life, and of the history of his thought. But though these prose translations from Rabindranath Tagore have stirred my blood as nothing has for years, I shall not know anything of his life, and of the movements of thought that have made them possible, if some Indian traveller will not tell me." It seemed to him natural that I should be moved, for he said, "I read |