VIII Lest I should know you too easily, you… You blind me with flashes of laughter to… I know, I know your art; You never say the word you would.

There is room for you. You are alone wi… My boat is crowded, it is heavily laden,… away? Your young body is slim and swayin… smile in the edge of your eyes, and your… rain cloud.

Whey are those tears in your eyes, my ch… How horrid of them to be always scolding… You have stained your fingers and face w… is that why they call you dirty? O, fie! Would they dare to call the ful…

Leave this chanting and singing and tell… Whom dost thou worship in this lonely da… Open thine eyes and see thy God is not… He is there where the tiller is tilling… and where the pathmaker is breaking ston…

Come as you are, tarry not over your toi… If your braiding has come loose, if the… Come as you are, tarry not over your toi… Come with quick steps over the grass. If your feet are pale with the dew, if y…

51 YOUR idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol. 52

You are the evening cloud floating in th… I paint you and fashion you ever with my… You are my own, my own, Dweller in my e… Your feet are rosy-red with the glow of… Your lips are bitter-sweet with the tast…

Say of him what you please, but I know… I do not love him because he is good, bu… little child. How should you know how dear he can be w… his merits against his faults?

Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger. I am uneasy at h...

When I go from hence let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of thi… that expands on the ocean of light,

Things throng and laugh loud in the sky;… and whirl like children. Man’s mind is a… thoughts long to be the playmates of thi… Our dreams, drifting in the stream of th… arms to clutch the earth, —their efforts…

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy p… This little flute of a reed thou hast ca… At the immortal touch of thy hands my li… Thy infinite gifts come to me only on th… When thou commandest me to sing it seems…

Take back your coins, King’s Councillor… sent to the forest shrine to decoy the y… seen a women. I failed in your bidding. Dimly day was breaking when the hermit b… the stream, his tawny locks crowded on h…