Fireflies 89 - 96 [German translation]

89

The sea of danger, doubt and denial

around man's little island of certainty

challenges him to dare the unknown.

90

Love punishes when it forgives,

and injured beauty by its awful silence.

91

You live alone and unrecompensed

because they are afraid of your great worth.

92

The same sun is newly born in new lands

in a ring of endless dawns.

93

God’s world is ever renewed by death,

a Titan's ever crushed by its own existence.

94

The glow-worm while exploring the dust

never knows that stars are in the sky.

95

The tree is of to-day, the flower is old,

it brings with it the message

of the immemorial seed.

96

Each rose that comes brings me greetings

from the Rose of an eternal spring.

• Artist:Rabindranath Tagore