bring the flowers iii

Because I deeply praised and trusted earth

and did not spread my secret wings in flight

but rooted in the stillness all my mind,

the spring again has risen to my thirst,

the dancing spring of life, my own joy's spring.

Because I never questioned how and when

but plunged my thought into each passing hour

as though its boundless goal lay hidden there,

no matter if I live in calm or storm,

the rounded moment shimmers in my mind,

the fruit falls from the sky, falls deep inside me.

Angelos Sikelianos

Because I Deeply Praised

  [fragment]

Edmund Keeley and

  Philip Sherrard, translation

The Greek Poets

  Homer to the Present

op. cit.