I THOUGHT I would write love's words in their own colour; but that lies deep in the heart, and tears are pale. Would you know them, friend, if the words were colourless? I thought I would sing love's words to their own tune, but that sounds only in my heart, and my eyes are silent. Would you know them, friend, if there were no tune?
THOU DIDST well to turn me back when I came begging. In thy parting glance I saw a smile; and since then I have learnt my lesson. I break my old alms bowl, I wait for my chance to give what is mine. From the morning crowds have gathered at thy gateway. Let their need be all fulfilled. When at the fall of night they disperse, and cries are hushed; when stars seem listening to some epic of the age before their birth-time, of the fight of new-born light with ancient darkness, to thy feet I come with homage of my longing: 'Take my lute in thine own hand and play it, Master.'