The Lone Star

At the close of the day, when the west is red,
And the sunbeams fade and die,
A light peeps out from the window-shed,
And a star shines in the sky.
All the birds are asleep in the trees,
And the crickets are hushed below,
But the star is watching over the seas,
And the lone star gleams and glows.
And the lone star gleams and glows.

About Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Thakur, also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha was a Bengali polymath of the Bengal Renaissance period. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.

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