Sweet was the sound-life
Before we accepted the lifeOf self-giving spirituality.
But now extremely bitter is the sound-life,For the silence-life has dawned
And is illumining our heart withinAnd our life without.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 67, Agni Press, 1983
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