O thou the last fulfilment of life,

voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself,and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own,and one has…

heart-sweetening light!Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the center of my life;the light strikes, my darling, the chords of my love;the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter passes over the earth.The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light.Lilies and jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light.The light…

and the restless water is boisterous.On the seashore of endless worldsthe children meet with shouts and dances.They build their houses with sandand they play with empty shells.With withered leaves they weave their boatsand smilingly float them on the vast deep.Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.They know not how to swim, they know…

‘Ah no, my friend, your words aredark, I cannot understand them.’‘Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop,while it laughs it dies. But sorrow isstrong and abiding. Let sorrowfullove wake in your eyes.’‘Ah no, my friend, your words aredark, I cannot understand them.’‘The lotus blooms in the sight ofthe sun, and loses all that it has. Itwould…

and thou keepest me free.Lest I forget them they never venture to leave me alone.But day passes by after day and thou art not seen.If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart,thy love for me still waits for my love.

Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest nor respite,and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless sea of toil.Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; andthe bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.Now it is time to…