Prisoner

`Prisoner, tell me, who was it that bound you?'
`It was my master,' said the prisoner.
`I thought I could outdo everybody in the world in wealth and power,
and I amassed in my own treasure-house the money due to my king.
When sleep overcame me I lay upon the bed that was for my lord,
and on waking up I found I was a prisoner in my own treasure-house.'
`Prisoner, tell me, who was it that wrought this unbreakable chain?'
It was I,' said the prisoner,who forged this chain very carefully.
I thought my invincible power would hold the world captive
leaving me in a freedom undisturbed.
Thus night and day I worked at the chain
with huge fires and cruel hard strokes.
When at last the work was done
and the links were complete and unbreakable,
I found that it held me in its grip.'

http://www.schoolofwisdom.com/history/teachers/rabindranath-tagore/gitanjali/

The Moon cascades in smile

"The Moon cascades in smile,
Her beams run flooding o'er;
O thou Rajanigandha!
Thy fragrance please do pour.
And hither lo the insane air
Who fails to feel who calls it where,
As all the flowers he breezes past
Seems beloved more!

Tonight the ether blue
In face did sandal smear,
The swans of Saraswati
Do fly tonight in pair!
How you sprinkle, Moon, on earth
The stamens of the divine Parijat,
O which celestial belle has lit
Her nuptial candle there!"