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My fancies are fireflies	A
Specks of living light	B
twinkling in the dark	C
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The voice of wayside pansies	D
that do not attract the careless glance	E
murmurs in these desultory lines	F
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In the drowsy dark caves of the mind	G
dreams build their nest with fragments	H
dropped from day's caravan	I
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Spring scatters the petals of flowers	J
that are not for the fruits of the future	K
but for the moment's whim	L
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Joy freed from the bond of earth's slumber	K
rushes into numberless leaves	M
and dances in the air for a day	N
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My words that are slight	B
may lightly dance upon time's waves	O
when my works heavy with import have gone down	P
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Mind's underground moths	Q
grow filmy wings	R
and take a farewell flight	B
in the sunset sky	S
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The butterfly counts not months but moments	H
and has time enough	T
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My thoughts like spark ride on winged surprises	U
carrying a single laughter	K
The tree gazes in love at its own beautiful shadow	V
which yet it never can grasp	W
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Let my love like sunlight surround you	X
and yet give you illumined freedom	Y
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Days are coloured bubbles	Z
that float upon the surface of fathomless night	B
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My offerings are too timid to claim your remembrance	A2
and therefore you may remember them	B2
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Leave out my name from the gift	C2
if it be a burden	D2
but keep my song	E2
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April like a child	F2
writes hieroglyphs on dust with flowers	J
wipes them away and forgets	G2
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Memory the priestess	H2
kills the present	I2
and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past	J2
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From the solemn gloom of the temple	K2
children run out to sit in the dust	L2
God watches them play	N
and forgets the priest	M2
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My mind starts up at some flash	N2
on the flow of its thoughts	O2
like a brook at a sudden liquid note of its own	P2
that is never repeated	Q2
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In the mountain stillness surges up	R2
to explore its own height	B
in the lake movement stands still	S2
to contemplate its own depth	T2
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The departing night's one kiss	U2
on the closed eyes of morning	V2
glows in the star of dawn	W2
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Maiden thy beauty is like a fruit	X2
which is yet to mature	Y2
tense with an unyielding secret	Z2
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Sorrow that has lost its memory	A3
is like the dumb dark hours	J
that have no bird songs	B3
but only the cricket's chirp	C3
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand	D3
with a grip that kills it	E3
Wishing to hearten a timid lamp	F3
great night lights all her stars	G3
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Though he holds in his arms the earth bride	H3
the sky is ever immensely away	N
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God seeks comrades and claims love	I3
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience	A2
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The soil in return for her service	H2
keeps the tree tied to her	K
the sky asks nothing and leaves it free	A3
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Jewel like immortal	K2
does not boast of its length of years	J3
but of the scintillating point of its moment	I2
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The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time	K3
unobscured by the dust of history	A3
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Alight laughter in the steps of creation	D2
carries it swiftly across time	K3
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One who was distant came near to me in the morning	V2
and still nearer when taken away by night	B
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White and pink oleanders meet	L3
and make merry in different dialects	M3
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When peace is active sweeping its dirt it is storm	N3
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The lake lies low by the hill	S2
a tearful entreaty of love	I3
at the foot of the inflexible	K2
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There smiles the Divine Child	F2
among his playthings of unmeaning clouds	O3
and ephemeral lights and shadows	P3
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The breeze whispers to the lotus	H2
'What is thy secret '	-
'It is myself ' says the lotus	H2
'Steal it and I disappear '	-
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The freedom of the storm and the bondage of the stem	B2
join hands in the dance of swaying branches	Q3
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The jasmine's lisping of love to the sun is her flowers	J
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The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom	Y
and yet to keep it for himself	R3
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Gods tired of their paradise envy man	I
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Clouds are hills in vapour	A3
hills are clouds in stone	P2
a phantasy in time's dream	S3
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While God waits for His temple to be built of love	I3
men bring stones	T3
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I touch God in my song	E2
as the hill touches the far away sea	A3
with its waterfall	U3
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Light finds her treasure of colours	A3
through the antagonism of clouds	A3
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My heart to day smiles at its past night of tears	A3
like a wet tree glistening in the sun	D2
after the rain is over	A3
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I have thanked the trees that have made my life fruitful	K2
but have failed to remember the grass	A3
that has ever kept it green	V3
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The one without second is emptiness	A3
the other one makes it true	A3
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty	A3
that can modulate their isolation	D2
into a harmony with the whole	W3
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They expect thanks for the banished nest	X3
because their cage is shapely and secure	A3
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In love I pay my endless debt to thee	A3
for what thou art	Y3
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The pond sends up its lyrics from its dark in lilies	A3
and the sun says they are good	Z3
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Your calumny against the great is impious	A3
it hurts yourself	R3
against the small it is mean	V3
for it hurts the victim	Y
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The first flower that blossomed on this earth	A4
was an invitation to the unborn song	E2
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Dawn the many coloured flower fades	A3
and then the simple light fruit	X2
the sun appears	A3
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The muscle that has a doubt if its wisdom	Y
throttles the voice that would cry	A3
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The wind tries to take the flame by storm	N3
only to blow it out	B4
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Life's play is swift	C2
Life's playthings fall behind one by one	D2
and are forgotten	D2
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My flower seek not thy paradise	A3
in a fool's buttonhole	W3
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Thou hast risen late my crescent moon	C4
but my night bird is still awake to greet thee	A3
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Darkness is the veiled bride	H3
silently waiting for the errant light	B
to return to her bosom	Y
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to	A3
speak to the listening heaven	D2
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The burden of self is lightened	D4
when I laugh at myself	R3
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The weak can be terrible	K2
because they try furiously to appear strong	E2
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The wind of heaven blows	A3
The anchor desperately clutches the mud	E4
and my boat is beating its breast against the chain	F4
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The spirit of death is one	D2
the spirit of life is many	A3
When God is dead religion becomes one	D2
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The blue of the sky longs for the earth's green	V3
the wind between them sighs 'Alas '	-
Day's pain muffled by its own glare	A3
burns among stars in the night	B
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The stars crowd round the virgin night	B
in silent awe at her loneliness	A3
that can never be touched	G4
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The cloud gives all its gold	H4
to the departing sun	D2
and greets the rising moon	C4
with only a pale smile	I4
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He who does good comes to the temple gate	J4
he who loves reaches the shrine	K4
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Flower have pity for the worm	L4
it is not a bee	A3
its love is a blunder and a burden	D2
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With the ruins of terror's triumph	M4
children build their doll's house	A3
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The lamp waits through the long day of neglect	N4
for the flame's kiss in the night	B
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Feathers in the dust lying lazily content	O4
have forgotten their sky	A3
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The flowers which is single	K2
need not envy the thorns	A3
that are numerous	A3
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The world suffers most from the disinterested tyranny	A3
of its well wisher	A3
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price	A3
for our right to live	P4
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Your careless gifts of a moment	I2
like the meteors of an autumn night	B
catch fire in the depth of my being	V2
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The faith waiting in the heart of a seed	Q4
promises a miracle of life	R4
which it cannot prove at once	A3
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Spring hesitates at winter's door	A3
but the mango blossom rashly runs out to him	L
before her time and meets her doom	S4
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The world is the ever changing foam	T4
that floats on the surface of a sea of silence	A3
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The two separated shores mingle their voices	A3
in a song of unfathomed tears	A3
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As a river in the sea	A3
work finds its fulfilment	Q4
in the depth of leisure	A3
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I lingered on my way till thy cherry tree lost its blossom	Y
but the azalea brings to me my love thy forgiveness	A3
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Thy shy little pomegranate bud	Q4
blushing to day behind her veil	U4
will burst into a passionate flower	A3
to morrow when I am away	N
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The clumsiness of power spoils the key	A3
and uses the pickaxe	A3
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Birth is from the mystery of night	Q4
into the greater mystery of day	N
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These paper boats of mine are meant to dance	A3
on the ripple	K2