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Review পত্রের ১৯১৩ মে সংখ্যায় প্রকাশিত হইয়াছিল । মে সিনক্লেয়ারের ষে চিঠিখানি এই পত্রে উল্লিখিত নিম্নে তাহ রথীন্দ্রনাথ #44 -fifts On the Edges of Time org ovs were: পুনৰ্বমুত্রিত হইল— July 8, 1912. Dear Mr. Tagore, It was impossible for me to say anything to you about your poems last night, because they are of a kind not easily spoken about. May I say now that as long as I live, even if I were never to hear them again, I shall never forget the impression that they made. It is not only that they have an absolute beauty, a perfection as poetry, but that they have made present for me forever the divine thing that I can only find by flashes and with an agonizing uncertainty. I don’t know whether it is possible to see through another's eyes, I am afraid it is not ; but I am sure that it is possible to believe through another's certainty. There is nothing to compare with what you have done except the poem of St. John of the Cross : “The Dark Night of the Soul’ and you surpass him and all Christian poets of mysticism that I know by that sense of the Absolute, that metaphysical insight. It, to my mind, Christian mysticism almost completely lacks. It deals too much in sensual imagery, it is not sufficiently austere and subtle— it has not really seen through the illusion of the world. And therefore its passion is not and cannot be entirely pure. 8 لا (تا