a Priori Story Time(less) - Kāśyapa and the Flower Sermon
Channel: Stephen Watson
Date: 05/03/2021

"Die Lotosblume" ("The Lotus Flower") is a poem written by  Heinrich Heine


The Lotus flower fears
before the suns splendour,
and with drooping head
she dreamily awaits the night.
The moon, he is her lover.
He wakes her with his light
and to him she happily unveils
her devoted flower-face.
She blooms and glows and shines
and stares mute in the heavens.
She exhales and weeps and trembles
with love and love’s pain.

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English Translation © Richard Stokes

The lotus-flower fears
The sun’s splendour,
And with bowed head,
Dreaming, awaits the night.
The moon is her lover,
And wakes her with his light,
And to him she tenderly unveils
Her innocent flower-like face.
She blooms and glows and gleams,
And gazes silently aloft—
Fragrant and weeping and trembling
With love and the pain of love.

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