I HAVE PLAYED my flute along the path, I have sung at thy gate. I have offered my tunes before thy temple's outer screen decorated with endless forms and colours. Today have come to me from everywhere the words that speak of the End. They ask me to break the bond of the road, to come to the farther shore of the pilgrimage by crossing the endless refrain of meetings and partings.
WHAT IS THIS melody that overflows nay life, only I know and my heart knows. Why I watch and wait, what I beg and from whom, only I know and my heart knows. The morning smiles like a friend at my gate, the evening droops down like a flower by the edge of the woods. The flute music floats in the air in the dawn and in the dusk. It beguiles my thoughts away from my toils. What is this tune and who plays it ever, only I know and my heart knows.