Fireflies 129 - 136 lyrics

129

In its swelling pride

the bubble doubts the truth of the sea,

and laughs and bursts into emptiness.

130

Love is an endless mystery,

for it has nothing else to explain it.

131

My clouds, sorrowing in the dark,

forget that they themselves

have hidden the sun.

132

Man discovers his own wealth

when God comes to ask gifts of him.

133

You leave your memory as a flame

to my lonely lamp of separation.

134

I came to offer thee a flower,

but thou must have all my garden,—

It is thine.

135

The picture—a memory of light

treasured by the shadow.

136

It is easy to make faces at the sun,

He is exposed by his own light in all directions.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore