AND IT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING---- *GITANJALI *CHITRA *THEWATERFALL *THE KING OF THE DARK CHAMBER *STRAY BIRDS *LOVER’S GIFT *CROSSING *THE GARDENER *MYBOYHOOD DAYS *THE HUNGRY STONES *FOUR CHAPTERS *TWO SISTERS *THE CRESCENT MOON *BROKEN TIES *CREATIVE UNITY *SADHANA *NATIONALISM & SELECTED POEMS. GITANJALI:- The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech…….. I AM glad that I have been able to come at last to your country & that I may use this opportunity for expressing my gratitude to you for the honour you have done to me by acknowledging my work & rewarding me by giving me the Nobel Prize. I remember the afternoon when I received the cablegram from my publisher in England that the prize had been awarded to me. I was staying then at the school Shantiniketen, about which I suppose you know. At that moment we were taking a party over to a forest near by the school, & when I was passing by the telegram office & the post office, a man came running to us & held up the telegraphic message. I had also an English visitor with me in the same carriage. I did not think that the message was of any importance, & I just put it into my pocket, thinking that I would read it, when I reached my destination. But my visitor supposed he knew the contents, & he urged me to read it, saying that the message was of any importance message. And I opened & read the message, which I could hardly believe. I first thought that possibly the telegraphic language was not quite correct & that I might misread the meaning of it, but at last I felt certain about it. And you can well understand how rejoicing it was for my boys at the school & for the teachers. What touched me more deeply than anything else was that these boys who loved me & for whom I had the deepest love felt proud of the honour that had been awarded to him for whom they had feeling of reverence, & I realized that my countrymen would share with me the honour which had been awarded to myself.