Then a hermit
who visited the city once a year,
came forth and said,
Speak to us of Pleasure.
Go to your fields and your gardens,
and you shall learn that
it is the pleasure of the bee
to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower
to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving of pleasure
is a need and an ecstasy.
