The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

Tagore’s image personifies the seasons to evoke memory and longing. “Music” suggests the sensuous fullness of summer—its sounds, vitality, and emotional tone—now “far-away,” implying both temporal distance and irretrievability. As autumn arrives, that summer-music “flutters” like a displaced bird, restlessly circling the present in search of its “former nest,” a metaphor for the lost home of past experience. The line captures a familiar human feeling: in times of change or decline, traces of earlier joy return as fragile echoes, not as recoverable reality. It also reflects Tagore’s recurring theme that beauty is intensified by transience, and that the present season is haunted—tenderly—by what has passed.