The Peril meets a new poet

David French provided a quote and a link that led me to the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. I like the lines French originally quoted enough to have seriously considered bumping Tristam Shandy from the top of this blog:

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I woke and saw that life was duty.
I acted, and behold, duty was joy.

Which pretty much directly echoes conversations I've been having recently with Merry, Sally and Rusty. But what perfect phrasing!

It turns out that Tagore has quite a bit to say that is well worth saying, and that he says perfectly. Go read the whole thing.