“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does…”

“The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps — does anybody know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore, Rabindranath. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Rabindranath Tagore. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore

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