209
All the delights that I have felt
in life's fruits and flowers
let me offer to thee at the end of the feast,
in a perfect union of love.
210
Some have thought deeply and explored the
meaning of thy truth,
and they are great; -
I have listened to catch the music of thy play,
and I am glad.
211
The tree is a winged spirit
released from the bondage of seed,
pursuing its adventure of life
across the unknown.
212
The lotus offers its beauty to the heaven,
the grass its service to the earth.
213
The sun's kiss mellows into abandonment
the miserliness of the green fruit clinging to its stem.
214
The flame met the earthen lamp in me,
and what a great marvel of light!
215
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth
and therefore delude us.
216
The cloud laughed at the rainbow
saying that is was an upstart
gaudy in its emptiness.
The rainbow calmly answered,
"I am as inevitably real as that sun himself."