O My Love

Do not lose yourself, O my love, in song and in music,

Or you will be lost like a dewdrop's dream of the morning

Swept away by a cataract's myriad-throated rushing.

Do not lose yourself in the light words of gay voices,

In the drumming of dancing feet, in the loudness of laughter.

Do not lose yourself, O my love, in song and in music;

For only in the silence can love speak to you,

Only in the silence can you whisper your answer.

Do not hide yourself, O my love, in light or in color,

Or you will be hidden as the world is hidden in sunlight

Away from the dreams and the twilights of nebular spaces.

Do not hide yourself in crystal bulbs or in rainbows-

Though romance wears scintillant tinsel, her heart is crying.

Do not hide yourself, O my love, in light or in color;

For only in the darkness can life find you,

Only in the darkness can you follow his light.

MY GREATNESS

When I realized my greatness, at once I shrivelled and

grew little;

As clouds shrivel when they realize the wonders of their

cargoes,

Carrying the fates of flowers and rainbows and the souls

of little children.

The moment I realized how great I was, I was great no

longer.

From the depth of earth and ocean, through the eyes of

flowers and spray,

I gazed at the blue skies across which I had sailed in crimson

splendor ;

And slowly and unseen I climbed up the stairways of the

sun-rays,

And slowly and unseen I lifted myself on the wings of the

wind...

And I rose from my littleness that was the fulfilment of