Fireflies 233 - 240 [German translation]

233

My life like the reed with its stops,

has its play of colours

through the gaps in its hopes and gains.

234

Let not my thanks to thee

rob my silence of its fuller homage.

235

Life's aspirations come

in the guise of children.

236

The faded flower sighs

that the spring has vanished for ever.

237

In my life's garden

my wealth has been of the shadows and lights

that are never gathered and stored.

238

The fruit that I have gained for ever

is that which thou hast accepted.

239

The jasmine knows the sun to be her brother

in the heaven.

240

Light is young, the ancient light;

shadows are of the moment, they are born old.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore