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which remarkable childhood experience does the poet remember through this poem (the first jasmine )?

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The First Jasmines

Ah, these jasmines, these white jasmines! 
I seem to remember the first day when I filled my hands with 
these jasmines, these white jasmines. 
I have loved the sunlight, the sky and the green earth; 
I have heard the liquid murmur of the river thorough the 
darkness of midnight; 
Autumn sunsets have come to me at the bend of a road in the 
lonely waste, like a bride raising her veil to accept her lover. 
Yet my memory is still sweet with the first white jasmines 
that I held in my hands when I was a child. 
Many a glad day has come in my life, and I have laughed with 
merrymakers on festival nights. 
On grey mornings of rain I have crooned many an idle song. 
I have worn round my neck the evening wreath of bakulas woven 
by the hand of love. 
Yet my heart is sweet with the memory of the first fresh 
jasmines that filled my hands when I was a child.

by Rabindranath Tagore