The boatman has no desire nor has he any regret he rows with no thought of the distance or the shores.
The journey which was such a great longing has shrunk to nothing And I feel as though I had been all along at the other shore.
In the evening of my life I have come to realise that the frail crossing of the river on a fragile reed boat with barely enough strength to carry the burden of life is the journey of a lifetime.
You're looking for the last poem by Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was a renowned Bengali polymath, poet, philosopher, and educator, who was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.