Poem - "When Day Is Done" by Rabindranath Tagore

"When Day Is Done" 
by Rabindranath Tagore


If the day is done,


if birds sing no more,

if the wind has flagged tired,

then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me,

even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep

and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk.