In the canon
The Weaver's Songs
Kabir
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1500
- Originally in
- Originally in Hindi
- Pages
- Pages 300
The cloth on the loom is the body, and in one of Kabir's best known songs it is handed back at the end as spotless as it was given. He sang that at his frame in Benares, a weaver who never learned to write, and people still sing it over the dead five centuries later.
What subtle threads the woman weaves, and makes them fine with love and reverence!
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