Fireflies 73 - 80 [German translation]

73

Feathers in the dust lying lazily content

have forgotten their sky.

74

The flower which is single

need not envy the thorns

that are numerous.

75

The world suffers most from the disinterested tyranny

of its well-wisher.

76

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price

for our right to live.

77

Your careless gifts of a moment,

like the meteors of an autumn night,

catch fire in the depth of my being.

78

The faith waiting in the heart of a seed

promises a miracle of life

which it cannot prove at once.

79

Spring hesitates at winter's door,

but the mango blossom rashly runs out to him

before her time and meets her doom.

80

The world is the ever-changing foam

that floats on the surface of a sea of silence.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore