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|name = Vocation<br />
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|author = [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
|original_title = বিচিত্র সাধ<br />
|translator = Unknown<br />
|first = 1909<br />
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|country = {{flag|India}}<br />
|language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]<br />
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|subject = Child thoughts<br />
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|publisher = Original - Unknown.<br>Translated - Ratna Sagar P.Ltd.<br />
|publication_date_en = {{start date|2006}}<br />
|media_type = Original - Unknown.<br>Translated - Hardcover<br />
|lines = Original - Unknown<br>Translated - 36<br />
|pages = Translated - 40-41<br />
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|ISBN = 81-8332-175-5<br />
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'''Vocation''' ({{lang-bn|বিচিত্র সাধ}}) is a poem written by [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. It echoes a child's ever-changing dreams for the future, the search for a [[vocation]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Macmillan Reference USA|year=1976|publisher=Macmillan|location=USA|isbn=978-0-02-865993-0|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/americansatwarso0000unse}}</ref><br />
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==Plot==<br />
The poem describes a child's longing for the immense freedom he sees in the lives of those around him. When the gong sounds ten in the morning, he walks to his school and sees a great hawker crying "Bangles, crystal bangles!" and he wishes he could be a hawker. At four in the afternoon, while coming back from school, he sees a skillful gardener digging the ground and he wishes he were a gardener. When dusk falls his cruel mother sends him to bed and he sees an ever alert watchman through the window and he wishes he could be a watchman.<ref>{{cite book|last=Daruwalla|first=Keki N.|title=Poetry Magic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dU6bCebkOvAC&pg=PA40|year=2006|publisher=Ratna Sagar P.Ltd.|isbn=81-8332-175-5|pages=40–41}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Poems by Rabindranath Tagore]]<br />
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