Let the world see as it is, with your own smile and sorrow
Along with its limbs that depend on the sound breathe of tomorrow!
Its enemy and friendship – its falsehood and truth or future,
Its hope which passes by like a dream of our youth or nature!
Yes, the soft light of affection may also shine
In the worst, there’s some spark of serenity or divine!
Surely the unspoken heat in itself has a fountain of bliss,
While the wisest and bold will take the world as it is!
