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I live in the hope of meeting with him
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“I live in the hope of meeting with him”

Rabindranath Tagore

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Gitanjali
Date
1912
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Rabindranath Tagore — Author and self-translator · from Bengali
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Meaning of “I live in the hope of meeting with…”

The speaker continues to wait in hope despite an unfulfilled meeting, making expectation itself part of the devotional life rather than proof that fulfillment has already arrived.

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Gitanjali, poem 13; Project Gutenberg #7164. The “him” is the poem’s spiritual addressee, so the record preserves devotional context instead of converting the sentence into a secular promise.

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