What would my life mean, if it ended today?
Was it wasted, adrift in dreams? No, it was a circle
of inner joys I gathered to me with both hands
and passed on and received again and again.
It was a union of passion with the earth,
whose fervor drenched happiness on me
and always furthered my goals
with glowing gestures toward eternal life.
It was a lifelong brotherly union with water,
with the winds blowing through mountains and fields,
a covenant with the clouds crossing the blue sky.
These brothers invoked for me the hymns of home.
I belonged to these great, eternal elements
who served me as my family.
My crime in all these years was
that I loved them more than people.
By: Hermann Hesse
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