Love, my heart longs day and night
Sweep me away like a storm; take e
In that devastation, in the utter
Alas for my vain desire! Where i

Why did the lamp go out?
I shaded it with my cloak to save
Why did the flower fade?
I pressed it to my heart with anxi
Why did the stream dry up?

When the heart is hard and parched
come upon me with a shower of merc
When grace is lost from life,
come with a burst of song.
When tumultuous work raises its di

I thought that my voyage had come
at the last limit of my power,—tha
that provisions were exhausted
and the time come to take shelter
But I find that thy will knows no

Thou hast made me endless, such is
This little flute of a reed thou h
At the immortal touch of thy hands
Thy infinite gifts come to me only
When thou commandest me to sing it

Light, my light, the world-filling
the eye-kissing light,
heart-sweetening light!
Ah, the light dances, my darling,
the light strikes, my darling, the

In the beginning of time, there ro
dream two women. One is the dancer
desired of men, she who laughs and
from their cold meditations and of
scatters them like seeds with care

Clouds rumbling in the sky; teemin
I sit on the river bank, sad and a
The sheaves lie gathered, harvest
The river is swollen and fierce in
As we cut the paddy it started to

I have got my leave. Bid me farew
I bow to you all and take my depar
Here I give back the keys of my d
——and I give up all claims to my h
I only ask for last kind words fro

Mother, the folk who live up in th
“We play from the time we wake til
We play with the golden dawn, we p
I ask, “But how am I to get up to
They answer, “Come to the edge of