Poorest, lowliest and lost

Here is thy footstool and there rest
They feet where live the poorest,
And lowliest and lost.

When I try to bow to thee,
My obeisance cannot reach
Down to the depth where they feet reset
Among the poorest, the lowliest and lost.

Pride can never approach to where thou walkest
In the clothes of the humble among
The poorest, and lowliest, and lost.

My heart can never find its way to where
Thou keepest company with
The companionless among the
Poorest, the lowliest, and the lost.

- Rabindranath Tagore
Verse 10, Gitanjali