ife what is truly precious.
100
The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky.
The morning crowned it with splendour.
101
The dust receives insult and in return offers her flowers.
102
Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for
flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
103
Roots are the branches down in the earth.
Branches are roots in the air.
104
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn
seeking its former nest.
105
Do not insult your friend by lending him merits from your own
pocket.
106
The touch of the nameless days clings to my heart like mosses
round the old tree.
107
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
108
God is ashamed when the prosperous boasts of His special favour.
109
I cast my own shadow upon my path, because I have a lamp that has
not been lighted.
110
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of
silence.
111
That which ends in exhaustion is death, but the perfect ending is
in the endless.
112
The sun has his simple robe of light. The clouds are decked with
gorgeousness.
113
The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms,
trying to catch stars.
114
The road is lonely in its crowd for it is not loved.
115
The power that boasts of its mischiefs is laughed at by the
yellow leaves that fall, and clouds that pass by.
116
The earth hums to me to-day in the sun, like a woman at her
spinng, some ballad of the ancient time in a forgotten tongue.
117
The grass-blade is worth of the great world where it grows.
118
Dream is a wife who must talk.
Sleep is a husband who silently suffers.
119
The night kisses the fading day whispering to his ear, "I am
death, your mother. I am to give you fresh birth."
120
I feel, thy beauty, dark night, like that of the loved woman when
she has put out the lamp.
121
I carry in my world that flourishes the worlds that have failed.
122
Dear friend, I feel the silence of your great thoughts of may a
deepening eventide on this beach when I listen to these waves.
123
The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift
in the air.
124
"In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night
to the sun.
"I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."
125
The Great is a born child; when he dies he gives his great
childhood to the world.
126
Not hammerstrokes, but dance of the water sings
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