Fireflies 209 - 216 [German translation]

209

All the delights that I have felt

in life's fruits and flowers

let me offer to thee at the end of the feast,

in a perfect union of love.

210

Some have thought deeply and explored the

meaning of thy truth,

and they are great; -

I have listened to catch the music of thy play,

and I am glad.

211

The tree is a winged spirit

released from the bondage of seed,

pursuing its adventure of life

across the unknown.

212

The lotus offers its beauty to the heaven,

the grass its service to the earth.

213

The sun's kiss mellows into abandonment

the miserliness of the green fruit clinging to its stem.

214

The flame met the earthen lamp in me,

and what a great marvel of light!

215

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth

and therefore delude us.

216

The cloud laughed at the rainbow

saying that is was an upstart

gaudy in its emptiness.

The rainbow calmly answered,

"I am as inevitably real as that sun himself."

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore